QBE Ventures

Summary

The venture was found in Australia. QBE Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Sydney.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the QBE Ventures, startups are often financed by Plug and Play Insurtech, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Third Kind Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University of Cambridge Enterprise, Starr Global Holding, Sparkland Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TD Ameritrade, Stripes, QBE Insurance Group.

The fund was created by Marcus Marchant. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Risk Management, Insurance. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight HyperScience, Zeguro, Cytora.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from QBE Ventures is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.