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PayU

Status

Active

Total investments

24

Average round size

54M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

1.85

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechRetail TechnologyPaymentsFinanceBig DataBankingCryptocurrencyE-Commerce Platforms

Summary

In 2011 was created PayU, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Hoofddorp. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in The Netherlands.

This organization was formed by Jose Velez, Martin Schrimpff, Nitin Gupta, Shailaz Nag, Yunus Emre Gu00fczer. The overall number of key employees were 2.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Banking, Mobile Payments. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Luno, ZestMoney, Bakkt. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the PayU, startups are often financed by International Finance Corporation, Threshold, Stripes. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Stripes, Omidyar Network, DN Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ribbit Capital, Omidyar Network, Xiaomi.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from PayU is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2020.

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Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
5
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.85
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (18)
  • Financial Services (17)
  • Payments (7)
  • Cryptocurrency (4)
  • Retail Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (6)
  • India (11)
  • Germany (1)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Colombia (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
226M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.43
Strategy success index
0.70

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