ProVenture

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Stavanger, Norway

Total investments

39

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

31

Rounds per year

2.17

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingReal TimeData IntegrationHardwareElectronicsEnergyWaterOil and Gas

Summary

ProVenture Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The venture was found in Europe in Norway. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Trondheim.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the ProVenture Management, startups are often financed by Investinor, Equinor, Energy Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Investinor, SINTEF TTO & Venture, Equinor. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Investinor, Equinor, Verdane.

The fund was created by Hans Olav Torsen, Herbju00f8rn Skjervold. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This ProVenture Management works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 52 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. 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.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Service Industry. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Norway. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Encap, Numascale, Verdande Technology.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
NOK 300000000
Fund raised date
2019-09-20

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
21
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.17
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • Oil and Gas (12)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Energy (4)
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Investments by region
  • Norway (33)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (2)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.49
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
6.47

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arctic Silicon Devices 19 Oct 2007 Hardware, Semiconductor, Electronics Seed 744K Trøndelag, Trondheim, Norway
Wellbeats 02 Aug 2013 Software, Hardware Seed 1M United States, Minnesota
My Voice 02 Oct 2020 Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications Seed 3M England, London, United Kingdom

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