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Startup Wise Guys

Founders Andrea Orlando Herty Tammo Jon Bradford Mike Reiner

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Total investments 620
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$579K
Portfolio companies 404
Rounds per year 51.67
Lead investments 71
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 3
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
Summary

Startup Wise Guys is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The company was established in Europe in Estonia. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Tallinn.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Startup Wise Guys, startups are often financed by New Strategies Group, Starta Accelerator, Societe Generale. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are United Angels VC, Trind Ventures, Start-Up Chile. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by bValue Venture Capital, Startupbootcamp, 3S Landing Pad.

When the investment is from Startup Wise Guys the average startup value is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Startup Wise Guys performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

This organization was formed by Herty Tammo, Jon Bradford, Mike Reiner.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Welltrado, CallPage, Leaf Grow. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Poland. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, B2B. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PLATMA

Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$2M10 Sep 2024 Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

CyLock

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$590K25 Jul 2024 Rome, Lazio, Italy

Loyi

Information Technology
$501K16 Jul 2024 -

Birl

Fashion
$118K17 Jun 2024 Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Wall ID

Blockchain
E-Commerce
Identity Management
Payments
$470K01 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Esgrid

$590K21 Apr 2024 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Collabwriting

Software
$1M18 Apr 2024 Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia

Monkee

Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
Mobile Apps
Personal Finance
10 Apr 2024 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Nymiz

Information Technology
Privacy
Security
$3M09 Apr 2024 Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain
News
Financial comparison “super app” Jeff raises $1.5M seed extension

– Jeff App, a fintech startup, raised $1.5m in seed extension funding.
– The funding was led by J12 Ventures and joined by iSeed Ventures and Toy Ventures, and returning investors EstBAN, Startup Wise Guys and other angels.
– The company claims that since the end of January, its users have tripled to 700,000, who compared a total of four million products over the past six months.

Fractory Raises €7.5M in Series A Funding

– Fractory is an online metal fabrication platform based in Manchester.
– The company raised €7.5m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by OTB Ventures, with support from existing investors including Trind Ventures, Superhero Capital, United Angels VC, Startup Wise Guys and Verve Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand its operations internationally and accelerate the development of its technology offering.

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Total investments 620
Average round size 579K
Rounds per year 51.67
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 71
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.25

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PLATMA

Information Technology
Software
Web Development
$2M10 Sep 2024 Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

CyLock

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$590K25 Jul 2024 Rome, Lazio, Italy

Loyi

Information Technology
$501K16 Jul 2024 -

Birl

Fashion
$118K17 Jun 2024 Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Wall ID

Blockchain
E-Commerce
Identity Management
Payments
$470K01 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Esgrid

$590K21 Apr 2024 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Collabwriting

Software
$1M18 Apr 2024 Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia

Monkee

Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
Mobile Apps
Personal Finance
10 Apr 2024 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

Nymiz

Information Technology
Privacy
Security
$3M09 Apr 2024 Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain
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