Phoenician Funds

Total investments

24

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

3.00

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyAppsMobile AppsEducationMedical

Summary

Phoenician Funds appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Beirut. The venture was found in Asia in Lebanon.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by George Haimari, Jad Salame, Mohamed Ibrahim. The overall number of key employees were 8.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Phoenician Funds, startups are often financed by Shorooq Partners, 500 Startups, Wamda Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are B&Y Venture Partners, BeryTech Fund, Saned Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by B&Y Venture Partners, BeryTech Fund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Lebanon. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Seez, Toters, NymCard. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Financial Services.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
3.00
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Financial Services (7)
  • Apps (6)
  • FinTech (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (7)
  • Lebanon (15)
  • Egypt (2)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
244K
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MoneyFellows 04 Aug 2019 Software, Financial Services, Credit Seed 1M Cairo Governorate, Cairo, Egypt
Sohati 01 Jul 2019 Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 1M Beirut Governorate, Beirut, Lebanon
Trufan 01 Jan 2019 Software, Marketing Seed 775K Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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