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NextStage

Founders Gregoire Sentilhes

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 53
Rounds per year 3.14
Lead investments 36
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 18
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Advertising
  • Information Technology
  • Consulting
  • Manufacturing
Summary

NextStage appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The company was established in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Oodrive, Hoche Triomphe Industrie, Konbini. 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Advertising, Manufacturing.

This organization was formed by Gregoire Sentilhes.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the NextStage, startups are often financed by Iris Capital, Galileo Partners, CDC Enterprises. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Iris Capital, Galileo Partners, ACE Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Flybridge Capital Partners, PM Equity Partner, Iris Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 43 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This NextStage works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

adopt'

Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Fashion
Lifestyle
Manufacturing
Women's
$30M25 May 2022 France, New Aquitaine, France

MoonBikes

Sports
$5M13 Oct 2021 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

EasyMile

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Image Recognition
Public Transportation
Robotics
Software
Transportation
$64M28 Apr 2021 France, Occitania, France

Yseop

Artificial Intelligence
Database
Natural Language Processing
Software
$9M11 Jul 2019 France, Ile-de-France

MyKronoz

Consumer Electronics
Mobile Devices
Wearables
14 Nov 2017 Geneva, Switzerland

Demander Justice

E-Commerce
Financial Services
Legal
$3M12 Nov 2017 Ile-de-France

Coorpacademy

Corporate Training
EdTech
MOOC
$11M26 Oct 2016 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

BOW Group

Consumer Goods
Internet of Things
$11M27 Jul 2015 Canton Luxembourg

MyKronoz

Consumer Electronics
Mobile Devices
Wearables
$11M15 Jul 2015 Geneva, Switzerland

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Total investments 69
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 3.14
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 36
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.36

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

adopt'

Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Fashion
Lifestyle
Manufacturing
Women's
$30M25 May 2022 France, New Aquitaine, France

MoonBikes

Sports
$5M13 Oct 2021 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

EasyMile

Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Image Recognition
Public Transportation
Robotics
Software
Transportation
$64M28 Apr 2021 France, Occitania, France

Yseop

Artificial Intelligence
Database
Natural Language Processing
Software
$9M11 Jul 2019 France, Ile-de-France

MyKronoz

Consumer Electronics
Mobile Devices
Wearables
14 Nov 2017 Geneva, Switzerland

Demander Justice

E-Commerce
Financial Services
Legal
$3M12 Nov 2017 Ile-de-France

Coorpacademy

Corporate Training
EdTech
MOOC
$11M26 Oct 2016 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

BOW Group

Consumer Goods
Internet of Things
$11M27 Jul 2015 Canton Luxembourg

MyKronoz

Consumer Electronics
Mobile Devices
Wearables
$11M15 Jul 2015 Geneva, Switzerland
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