National Research Foundation

Total investments

29

Average round size

582K

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

1.71

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.03

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileMachine LearningAppsBig DataMarketplaceAdvertising

Summary

In 2006 was created National Research Foundation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Singapore. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Singapore.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this National Research Foundation works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the National Research Foundation, startups are often financed by Tandem Capital, Ruvento, JFDI.Asia. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wavemaker Partners, Jungle Ventures, Get2Volume. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wavemaker Partners, iGlobe Partners, Khattar Holdings.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Structo, CreoPop, Vanitee. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Mobile Apps. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Singapore.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
4
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.71
Follow on index
0.03
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (9)
  • Big Data (6)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Software (6)
  • Apps (4)
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Investments by region
  • Singapore (24)
  • India (2)
  • United States (1)
  • Japan (1)
  • Malaysia (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
33.95

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LCO-CREATION PTE.LTD. 14 Nov 2012 Analytics, B2B, Mobile, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, Big Data, Digital Marketing, Travel, Data Mining, Data Visualization Seed 0 Singapore, Central
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