New Business Venture Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Reykjavík, Iceland

Total investments

39

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

30

Rounds per year

1.50

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.23

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedicalPharmaceuticalConsulting

Summary

New Business Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Reykjavu00edk. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Iceland.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the New Business Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Technology Development Fund, Seventure Partners, Life Sciences Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Frumtak Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Shanda Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Technology Development Fund, Investa, Horizon 2020.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consulting, Health Diagnostics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Iceland. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kaptio, Mint Solutions, Yaolan.com.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from New Business Venture Fund is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2010. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Iceland

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
13
Rounds per year
1.50
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • Health Care (12)
  • Medical (11)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Consulting (6)
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Investments by region
  • Iceland (33)
  • China (1)
  • Netherlands (2)
  • United States (2)
  • Japan (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
19M
Group Appearance index
0.41
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BioCule 06 Jan 2004 Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Alternative Medicine Seed Iceland, Múlaþing, Iceland
Cooky.vn 01 Jan 2017 Food and Beverage, Communities Seed 0 United States, Illinois, Chicago
Digital Natives 20 Sep 2022 Data Integration, Advertising, Digital Signage Seed 435K Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Spectaflow 05 Jan 2022 Internet, Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Hospitality Seed 1M Gullbringusysla, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Riveter 11 Dec 2018 Wellness, Communities, Education, Coworking Early Stage Venture 16M United States, Washington, Seattle

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