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PROPARCO

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Total investments 72
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 59
Rounds per year 1.53
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 8
Key employees 20
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Renewable Energy
  • Finance
Summary

In 1977 was created PROPARCO, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the PROPARCO, startups are often financed by Omidyar Network, Quona Capital, FMO. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FMO, International Finance Corporation, Vostok Emerging Finance. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FMO, Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Vostok Emerging Finance.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Solar, Renewable Energy. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight JUMO, Neogrowth, IFMR Holdings. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this PROPARCO works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The overall number of key employees were 20.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Almouneer

Diabetes
Health Care
Medical
$3M31 Oct 2023 -

Complete Farmer

Agriculture
AgTech
Big Data
$7M20 Sep 2023 Accra, Ghana

Afrikrea

Art
E-Commerce
Fashion
Handmade
$5M19 Sep 2023 Côte d'Ivoire, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire

Nuru

Energy
Solar
$40M03 Jul 2023 -

Fleeti

Fleet Management
Internet of Things
Logistics
$3M06 Mar 2023 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Workpay

Financial Services
Human Resources
Payments
Software
$2M21 Feb 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Jetstream Africa

Logistics
$13M10 Jan 2023 Accra, Ghana

Annapurna Microfinace

Banking
Business Development
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Property Management
$15M24 Jun 2022 Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India

Moringa School

Education
23 Jun 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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Total investments 72
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 1.53
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Almouneer

Diabetes
Health Care
Medical
$3M31 Oct 2023 -

Complete Farmer

Agriculture
AgTech
Big Data
$7M20 Sep 2023 Accra, Ghana

Afrikrea

Art
E-Commerce
Fashion
Handmade
$5M19 Sep 2023 Côte d'Ivoire, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire

Nuru

Energy
Solar
$40M03 Jul 2023 -

Fleeti

Fleet Management
Internet of Things
Logistics
$3M06 Mar 2023 Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Workpay

Financial Services
Human Resources
Payments
Software
$2M21 Feb 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Jetstream Africa

Logistics
$13M10 Jan 2023 Accra, Ghana

Annapurna Microfinace

Banking
Business Development
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Property Management
$15M24 Jun 2022 Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Odisha, India

Moringa School

Education
23 Jun 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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