MVI (MENA Venture Investments)

Total investments

71

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

60

Rounds per year

5.07

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

10

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareMobileFinanceAppsMarketplaceHardwareConsumer ElectronicsElectronics

Summary

MVI (MENA Venture Investments) appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dubai. The venture was found in Asia in United Arab Emirates.

When the investment is from MVI (MENA Venture Investments) the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this MVI (MENA Venture Investments) works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2010. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the MVI (MENA Venture Investments), startups are often financed by SOSV, Techstars, Samih Toukan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Dtec Ventures, 500 Startups, Neoteny Labs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wamda Capital, Saned Partners, SOSV.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Digital Media. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zignal Labs, littleBits Electronics, Onfleet For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Arif Naqvi, Fadi Ghandour. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
71
Lead investments
1
Exits
10
Rounds per year
5.07
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (18)
  • Software (10)
  • Internet (8)
  • Mobile (7)
  • Marketplace (6)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (10)
  • United States (27)
  • Jordan (13)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Morocco (2)
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Peak activity year
2010
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
44M
Group Appearance index
0.42
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.94
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
liwwa 28 Feb 2018 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Crowdfunding Early Stage Venture 2M Amman, Amman, Jordan
Tamatem Inc. 19 Sep 2013 Publishing, Mobile, Gaming Seed Amman, Amman, Jordan

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