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Sprints Capital

Founders Filip Hedin Henrik Persson Pierre Siri

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$124M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 2.80
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Marketplace
  • FinTech
  • Payments
  • E-Commerce
Summary

In 2014 was created Sprints Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Search Engine, Social Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Revolut, Chrono24, Vinted. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Sprints Capital, startups are often financed by Insight Partners, Accel, Venkat Srinivasan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Insight Partners, Socii Capital, Ribbit Capital.

This organization was formed by Filip Hedin, Henrik Persson, Pierre Siri. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Sprints Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Sprints Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Planhat

CRM
Customer Service
SaaS
$50M21 Apr 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Payhawk

Accounting
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$100M01 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Payhawk

Accounting
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$115M23 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Affinity

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
CRM
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$80M09 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Chrono24

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Marketplace
$118M11 Aug 2021 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Booksy

Beauty
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
SaaS
Wellness
$70M27 Jan 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Chrono24

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Marketplace
$50M13 Aug 2019 Baden-Württemberg

Revolut

Application Software
Banking
Customer Service
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Other Financial Services
Payments
$250M26 Apr 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Customer relationship tracker Affinity nabs $80M

– Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform designed to work with existing customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, announced that it closed an $80 million series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total raised to date to $120 million at a $600 million valuation.
Advance Venture Partners, Sprints Capital, Pear Ventures, Sway Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Teamworthy, and ECT also participated in the round, which cofounder and CEO Ray Zhou said will be put toward strengthening Affinity’s engineering team and expanding its sales and marketing reach into sectors such as investment banking, private equity, and accounting.

Chrono24 Raises €100M in Series C Funding

– Chrono24 is a digital marketplace for new and pre-owned luxury watches.
– The company raised €100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic with participation from Aglaé Ventures, the technology arm of the Arnault family’s investment company and existing investors Insight Partners and Sprints Capital, as well as Felgner and Kniewasser.
– The new investment will be used to continue to scale internationally and deepen its presence in existing markets, enhance its user experience, and augment its global team with additional talent.

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Total investments 28
Average round size 124M
Rounds per year 2.80
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Planhat

CRM
Customer Service
SaaS
$50M21 Apr 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Payhawk

Accounting
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$100M01 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Payhawk

Accounting
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Software
$115M23 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Affinity

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
CRM
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$80M09 Sep 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Chrono24

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Marketplace
$118M11 Aug 2021 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Booksy

Beauty
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
SaaS
Wellness
$70M27 Jan 2021 San Francisco, California, United States

Chrono24

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
Marketplace
$50M13 Aug 2019 Baden-Württemberg

Revolut

Application Software
Banking
Customer Service
Financial Services
Financial Software
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Other Financial Services
Payments
$250M26 Apr 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
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