Lightbox
55
23M
27
5.50
21
0.49
4
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2014 was created Lightbox, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in India. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Mumbai.
The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cleartrip, Nua, Flintobox Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Internet.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Lightbox, startups are often financed by Sherpalo Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital India, Beenos Partners, BEENEXT. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital India, Digital Garage, BEENEXT.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Lightbox works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Lightbox is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 38 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The fund was created by sandeep murthy. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 55
- Lead investments
- 21
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 5.50
- Follow on index
- 0.49
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (27)
- Food Processing (13)
- Mobile Apps (10)
- Food Delivery (8)
- Mobile (8) Show 81 more
- Investments by region
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- India (53)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 186M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.76
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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