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Sonae IM

Founders Alexandre Santos

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Total investments 56
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 6.22
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Cyber Security
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tamnoon

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
$12M25 Sep 2024 Sammamish, Washington, United States

Vicarius

B2B
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Software
$30M17 Jan 2024 Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel

JENTIS

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Legal Tech
SaaS
$12M27 Nov 2023 -

Harmonya

Artificial Intelligence
Product Research
Retail Technology
$20M05 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Infraspeak

Communication Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$8M25 Jul 2023 Portugal, Portugal

SEKOIA

Cyber Security
Software
$41M24 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Picnic Corporation

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
27 Mar 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Seldon

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Open Source
SaaS
$20M16 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Mayan

E-Commerce
$5M14 Mar 2023 -
News
Sellforte Raises €4M in Funding

– Sellforte is a Helsinki, Finland-based AI-powered marketing optimization platform.
– The company raised €4M in funding.
– The round was led by Sonae IM and also participated by Bonnier Ventures and Icebreaker.vc.
– The new investment will be used to hire new talent to scale R&D on its product offering and further expand its operations internationally.

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Total investments 56
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 6.22
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tamnoon

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
$12M25 Sep 2024 Sammamish, Washington, United States

Vicarius

B2B
Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Software
$30M17 Jan 2024 Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel

JENTIS

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Digital Marketing
Information Technology
Legal Tech
SaaS
$12M27 Nov 2023 -

Harmonya

Artificial Intelligence
Product Research
Retail Technology
$20M05 Sep 2023 New York, New York, United States

Infraspeak

Communication Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$8M25 Jul 2023 Portugal, Portugal

SEKOIA

Cyber Security
Software
$41M24 May 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Picnic Corporation

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
27 Mar 2023 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Seldon

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Open Source
SaaS
$20M16 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Mayan

E-Commerce
$5M14 Mar 2023 -
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