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Sowefund

Founders Benjamin Wattinne Georges Viglietti Jean-Philippe Leflot

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Total investments 44
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$600K
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 4.89
Lead investments 22
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Environmental Consulting
  • Building Material
  • Renewable Energy
  • Agriculture
Summary

Sowefund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in Europe in France. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Paris.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Building Material, Food and Beverage. 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 Smiile, Entomo Farm, EkWateur.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sowefund, startups are often financed by Wilco, Aster, Finorpa. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AGORANOV, Thomas Landais, Paris Business Angels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars, Wilco, Thierry Petit.

The current fund was established by Benjamin Wattinne, Georges Viglietti, Jean-Philippe Leflot.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 46 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TechnoCarbon

Manufacturing
$944K15 Sep 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Solaire Box

Building Material
Construction
$1M14 Apr 2020 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

IvaDrones

Drones
$165K16 Mar 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Zéphyr solar

Product Design
$590K15 Mar 2018 Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France

Lunii

Children
Education
Internet
$826K09 Mar 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Celloz

Building Material
Energy
$590K01 Jan 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Onecub

CRM
Email
Privacy
$424K22 May 2017 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Drive or Phone

Information Technology
01 Jan 2017 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Education
Language Learning
$826K17 Nov 2016 France, Ile-de-France

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Total investments 44
Average round size 600K
Rounds per year 4.89
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.09
Group Appearance index 0.25

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

TechnoCarbon

Manufacturing
$944K15 Sep 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Solaire Box

Building Material
Construction
$1M14 Apr 2020 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

IvaDrones

Drones
$165K16 Mar 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Zéphyr solar

Product Design
$590K15 Mar 2018 Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France

Lunii

Children
Education
Internet
$826K09 Mar 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Celloz

Building Material
Energy
$590K01 Jan 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Onecub

CRM
Email
Privacy
$424K22 May 2017 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Drive or Phone

Information Technology
01 Jan 2017 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

LoginChinese

Education
Language Learning
$826K17 Nov 2016 France, Ile-de-France
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