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Standard Bank

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$74M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 0.19
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 3
Key employees 19
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Payments
  • Finance
  • Mobile
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SmartWage

Information Technology
Internet
$2M05 Apr 2022 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

KudiGo

Big Data
Blockchain
FinTech
Retail Technology
$40K16 Apr 2019 Accra, Greater Accra Region

Rewire

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$12M25 Mar 2019 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

WAY2VAT

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M24 Sep 2017 England

WAY2VAT

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$1M20 Dec 2015 England

PayBox

FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Payments
$1M15 Oct 2015 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Moven

Apps
Banking
FinTech
Mobile
Real Time
$8M18 Jul 2014 New York, New York, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 74M
Rounds per year 0.19
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SmartWage

Information Technology
Internet
$2M05 Apr 2022 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

KudiGo

Big Data
Blockchain
FinTech
Retail Technology
$40K16 Apr 2019 Accra, Greater Accra Region

Rewire

Banking
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
$12M25 Mar 2019 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

WAY2VAT

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M24 Sep 2017 England

WAY2VAT

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$1M20 Dec 2015 England

PayBox

FinTech
Mobile
Mobile Payments
Payments
$1M15 Oct 2015 Rishon Lezion, Center District, Israel

Moven

Apps
Banking
FinTech
Mobile
Real Time
$8M18 Jul 2014 New York, New York, United States
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