Sonae IM

Total investments

55

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

6.11

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

7

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity

Summary

Sonae IM appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the Maia. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Portugal. Sonae IM appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Network Security, Cyber Security. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Arctic Wolf Networks, MedUX, StyleSage

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Sonae IM works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Sonae IM, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wellborn Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Octopus Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Unusual Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
16
Exits
7
Rounds per year
6.11
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (27)
  • Information Technology (21)
  • Cyber Security (19)
  • SaaS (15)
  • Security (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (15)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Israel (5)
  • France (2)
  • Portugal (11)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
97M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
15
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Sales Layer 18 Jun 2022 Internet, Software, Information Services, SaaS, Product Management, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing Early Stage Venture 25M Valencian Community, Valencia, Spain
Vicarius 17 Jan 2024 Software, B2B, Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Cyber Security, Cloud Security Early Stage Venture 30M Jerusalem District, Jerusalem, Israel

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