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LeanSquare

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 31
Rounds per year 3.60
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Music
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

LeanSquare appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Liu00e8ge. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Belgium.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Apps. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DIM3, Bloomlife, Onoff Telecom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Belgium.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the LeanSquare, startups are often financed by Fabien Pelous, Antoine Arnault, Alain Bernard. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Meusinvest, Spreds, OneRagtime. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Refiners, The Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders, Plug and Play.

The average startup value when the investment from LeanSquare is 1-5 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2016.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Raw Stadia

Information Technology
Outdoors
Sports
$1M13 Dec 2023 Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium

CityLegends

Consulting
Digital Media
Lifestyle
Social Network
Sports
$1M23 Nov 2023 Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

StreamForge

Media and Entertainment
Video
$1M01 Aug 2023 Zug, Switzerland

ClimateCamp

Information Services
Supply Chain Management
Waste Management
$826K22 Nov 2022 Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

ZapFloorHQ

Information Technology
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$2M20 Sep 2022 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

StarTalers

Big Data
Financial Services
Wealth Management
$967K28 Jun 2021 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

ZapFloorHQ

Information Technology
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$1M03 Oct 2019 Antwerp

Studytracks

E-Learning
$1M16 Sep 2019 County Dublin

Fishtripr

Lifestyle
Natural Resources
Outdoors
$590K11 Feb 2019 City of Brussels, Belgium

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Total investments 36
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 3.60
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.14
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Raw Stadia

Information Technology
Outdoors
Sports
$1M13 Dec 2023 Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium

CityLegends

Consulting
Digital Media
Lifestyle
Social Network
Sports
$1M23 Nov 2023 Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

StreamForge

Media and Entertainment
Video
$1M01 Aug 2023 Zug, Switzerland

ClimateCamp

Information Services
Supply Chain Management
Waste Management
$826K22 Nov 2022 Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

ZapFloorHQ

Information Technology
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$2M20 Sep 2022 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

StarTalers

Big Data
Financial Services
Wealth Management
$967K28 Jun 2021 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

ZapFloorHQ

Information Technology
Internet
Real Estate
Software
$1M03 Oct 2019 Antwerp

Studytracks

E-Learning
$1M16 Sep 2019 County Dublin

Fishtripr

Lifestyle
Natural Resources
Outdoors
$590K11 Feb 2019 City of Brussels, Belgium
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