LGT Venture Philanthropy

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Total investments

23

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

1.53

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.13

Areas of investment
Financial ServicesMobileHealth CareEducationEnergyNon ProfitNatural ResourcesAgricultureEnvironmental ConsultingCharity

Summary

In 2007 was created LGT Venture Philanthropy, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland. The main department of described VC is located in the Zu00fcrich.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the LGT Venture Philanthropy, startups are often financed by Entru00e9e Capital, Commercial Bank of Africa. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lundin Foundation, LocalGlobe, Generation Investment Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Virgin Group, Revolution, Jean Case.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline M-KOPA Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, Agriculture. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Kenya.

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Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
1.53
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Energy (5)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Mobile (4)
  • Non Profit (4)
  • Environmental Consulting (4)
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Investments by region
  • Kenya (7)
  • India (4)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (2)
  • China (1)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Group Appearance index
0.22

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Husk Power Systems 25 Oct 2012 Energy, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management Early Stage Venture 5M Bihar, Patna, India
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