Sofina
Venture Capital
Active
Brussels, Belgium
92
116M
47
0.73
19
0.49
8
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1898 was created Sofina, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Brussels. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Belgium.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Sofina, startups are often financed by Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tiger Global Management, Accel, Tencent Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital India, RTP Global, Trifecta Capital Advisors.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flipkart, The Hut Group, MissFresh E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Retail, Health Care. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India.
Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Sofina works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Sofina is more than 1 billion dollars.
The overall number of key employees were 3.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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- 109M — 326M
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 92
- Lead investments
- 19
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 0.73
- Follow on index
- 0.49
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (28)
- Internet (23)
- Health Care (17)
- Food and Beverage (13)
- Medical (9) Show 101 more
- Investments by region
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- India (43)
- Germany (6)
- United Kingdom (9)
- Belgium (3)
- Netherlands (4) Show 8 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 10
- Number of Decacorns
- 11
- Number of Minotaurs
- 5
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.93
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.24
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemonilo | 14 Dec 2021 | Internet, Health Care | Late Stage Venture | 36M | Jakarta Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Mistral AI | 13 Jun 2023 | Seed | 123M | Ile-de-France, Paris, France | |
| TradeMonday | 25 Jun 2017 | E-Commerce, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS, Big Data, E-Commerce Platforms | Seed | 125K | United States, New York, New York |
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