Standard Bank
30
70M
28
0.19
6
0.07
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1862 was created Standard Bank, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Africa in South Africa. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Johannesburg.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Payments, Financial Services. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Helios Towers Tanzania, Helios Towers DRC, WAY2VAT. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Standard Bank, startups are often financed by Moneta VC, eVentures Africa Fund, Raptor Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Moneta VC, Poalim Ventures, iAngels. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Global Fintech Solutions, iAngels, Westpac.
The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The overall number of key employees were 18.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 30
- Lead investments
- 6
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.19
- Follow on index
- 0.07
- Investments by industry
- FinTech (10)
- Financial Services (8)
- Payments (5)
- Finance (4)
- Mobile (3) Show 62 more
- Investments by region
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- South Africa (16)
- Mauritius (1)
- Ireland (1)
- United States (3)
- Canada (1) Show 5 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 14
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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SmartWage | 05 Apr 2022 | Internet, Information Technology | Seed | 2M | Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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