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Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$258K
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.90
Lead investments 11
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • Financial Services
  • Payments
  • Banking
  • Agriculture
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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CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enviu

Business Development
Crowdsourcing
Sustainability
18 Dec 2018 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Food and Beverage
Tea
17 Dec 2018 Bujumbura, Bujumbura Mairie, Burundi

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Total investments 19
Average round size 258K
Rounds per year 1.90
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 1

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enviu

Business Development
Crowdsourcing
Sustainability
18 Dec 2018 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Food and Beverage
Tea
17 Dec 2018 Bujumbura, Bujumbura Mairie, Burundi
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