Safaricom

Safaricom is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1997. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in Kenya. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Nairobi.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Education, Information Technology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Kenya. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline mSurvey, Sendy

The high activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Safaricom, startups are often financed by Savannah Fund, Cross Culture Ventures, Yago Arbeloa. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cross Culture Ventures, Alpha Angels, TLcom Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TLcom Capital Partners, Social Capital, Kapor Capital.

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