M&S Partners

Total investments

25

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

2.08

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechOnline PortalsFood and BeverageHealth CareMarketingFood DeliveryCooking

Summary

In 2012 was created M&S Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Calebasses. The company was established in Africa in Mauritius.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This M&S Partners works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from M&S Partners is 5-10 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Buyandship, SilverPush, Paystack. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Financial Services.

The current fund was established by Hiro Mashita. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the M&S Partners, startups are often financed by Mistletoe, 500 Startups, TA Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mistletoe, Das Capital, Qualcomm Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Mistletoe, Accel, Trifecta Capital Advisors.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.08
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (8)
  • FinTech (6)
  • Financial Services (6)
  • Online Portals (5)
  • Marketing (4)
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Investments by region
  • India (18)
  • Singapore (3)
  • China (1)
  • Nigeria (1)
  • Thailand (1)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
79M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.02
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CashBUS 01 Mar 2016 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Big Data Early Stage Venture 25M China, Shanghai
Helix 05 Sep 2023 Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Seed 4M United States, California, Pleasanton
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Ninjacart 11 Apr 2017 Supply Chain Management, B2B, Sales, Marketing, AgTech Early Stage Venture 5M Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
SilverPush 23 Sep 2015 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Advertising, Ad Targeting Seed 1M Central Region, Singapore, Singapore

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