Seedstars

Type

Venture Capital, Other

Status

Active

Location

Carouge, Switzerland

Total investments

142

Average round size

762K

Portfolio companies

116

Rounds per year

11.83

Lead investments

32

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHealth CareEducationMedicalMarketplace

Summary

In 2012 was created Seedstars, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Geneva. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Switzerland.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Seedstars, startups are often financed by Khalid AlHadlaq, 500 Startups. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars, TURN8, Oman Technology Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Omidyar Network, GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator, Vumela Fund.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Seedstars is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 57 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Tanzania. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Jamii Africa, RedCapital Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Health Care.

The current fund was established by Adrien de Loes, Michael Weber, Pierre-Alain Masson.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 18210000
Fund raised date
2023-05-18

Analytics

Total investments
142
Lead investments
32
Exits
1
Rounds per year
11.83
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (29)
  • FinTech (23)
  • Health Care (20)
  • E-Commerce (20)
  • Information Technology (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Bangladesh (7)
  • Jordan (3)
  • Pakistan (3)
  • Nigeria (7)
  • Show 38 more
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
18M
Group Appearance index
0.54
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Maad 13 May 2024 Wholesale, Analytics, Information Technology, B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce Platforms Seed 2M Senegal, Dakar, Dakar
QIDZ LLC 01 Dec 2019 Software, Mobile, Apps, Mobile Apps, Education, Digital Entertainment Seed 1M United Arab Emirates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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