Serena

Summary

In 2008 was created Serena, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Paris. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

The average startup value when the investment from Serena is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Opposing the other organizations, this Serena works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Serena, startups are often financed by Isai, Wilco, Partech. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bpifrance, Partech, Isai. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Partech, Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, SaaS. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Launchmetrics, WorldStores, FINALCAD. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.