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National Research Foundation

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Total investments 29
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$582K
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 1.71
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 6
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Big Data
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Apps
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CLOP Technologies

Internet of Things
Semiconductor
Wireless
$1M24 Apr 2017 Singapore, Singapore

Cloudaron

Mobile
SaaS
$500K18 Aug 2015 Central

CreoPop

3D Printing
3D Technology
Consumer Electronics
Electrical Distribution
$1M02 Jun 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Healint

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Mobile
$1M27 Mar 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

BaseRide Technologies

Analytics
Big Data
Logistics
Transportation
$500K01 Nov 2014 Singapore, Singapore

Matchimi

Apps
Computer
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$230K05 Sep 2014 Central

Double Helix Tracking Technologies

Genetics
Natural Resources
Risk Management
Sustainability
$651K01 Aug 2014 Central

GNosis Analytics

Analytics
Big Data
Customer Service
Enterprise
Software
$589K16 Apr 2014 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Structo

Cloud Computing
Developer APIs
Web Development
Web Hosting
01 Apr 2014 Singapore, Central, Singapore

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Total investments 29
Average round size 582K
Rounds per year 1.71
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CLOP Technologies

Internet of Things
Semiconductor
Wireless
$1M24 Apr 2017 Singapore, Singapore

Cloudaron

Mobile
SaaS
$500K18 Aug 2015 Central

CreoPop

3D Printing
3D Technology
Consumer Electronics
Electrical Distribution
$1M02 Jun 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Healint

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Mobile
$1M27 Mar 2015 Singapore, Central, Singapore

BaseRide Technologies

Analytics
Big Data
Logistics
Transportation
$500K01 Nov 2014 Singapore, Singapore

Matchimi

Apps
Computer
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$230K05 Sep 2014 Central

Double Helix Tracking Technologies

Genetics
Natural Resources
Risk Management
Sustainability
$651K01 Aug 2014 Central

GNosis Analytics

Analytics
Big Data
Customer Service
Enterprise
Software
$589K16 Apr 2014 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Structo

Cloud Computing
Developer APIs
Web Development
Web Hosting
01 Apr 2014 Singapore, Central, Singapore
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