Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity

Total investments

19

Average round size

258K

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

1.90

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
Energy StorageFinancial ServicesPaymentsBankingEnergyRenewable EnergySocial EntrepreneurshipSolarClean EnergyAgriculture

Summary

Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The company was established in Africa in Kenya. The main department of described VC is located in the Nairobi.

This Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity, startups are often financed by SunFunder, responsAbility, Village Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SunFunder.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SolarNow. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 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 - The Netherlands. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Social Entrepreneurship, Crowdsourcing.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
19
Lead investments
11
Exits
1
Rounds per year
1.90
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (7)
  • Financial Services (5)
  • Payments (2)
  • Banking (2)
  • Agriculture (2)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (2)
  • Kenya (3)
  • Uganda (1)
  • Netherlands (3)
  • Ghana (2)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
37
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Avg. company exit year
114

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Prothem Usine 17 Dec 2018 Food and Beverage, AgTech, Agriculture, Farming, Tea Seed Burundi, Bujumbura Mairie, Bujumbura

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