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Sparebanken Vest

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.03
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Location Based Services
  • Mobile
  • Small and Medium Businesses
  • Banking
Summary

In 1823 was created Sparebanken Vest, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the North Bergen. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Sparebanken Vest, startups are often financed by Draper Nexus Ventures, DCM Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HolbergFondene. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trond Riiber Knudsen, HolbergFondene, Fjord Invest.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Japan. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Folio, bSafe. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Location Based Services, Financial Services.

The top activity for fund was in 2009. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Sparebanken Vest works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$830K01 Oct 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$2M01 May 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$650K01 Sep 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$500K01 Jun 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Yast

Project Management
SaaS
Software
$150K14 May 2008 Vestfold og Telemark

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Total investments 6
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.03
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.33

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$830K01 Oct 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$2M01 May 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$650K01 Sep 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

bSafe

Location Based Services
Mobile
Software
$500K01 Jun 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Yast

Project Management
SaaS
Software
$150K14 May 2008 Vestfold og Telemark
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