Startup Wise Guys

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Estonia, Tallinn

Total investments

613

Average round size

545K

Portfolio companies

401

Rounds per year

51.08

Lead investments

71

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS

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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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseFintechCybersecurityClimate tech Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Last fund

Fund size
EUR 25000000
Fund raised date
2023-02-16

Analytics

Total investments
613
Lead investments
71
Exits
3
Rounds per year
51.08
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Software (187)
  • Information Technology (128)
  • SaaS (86)
  • Financial Services (77)
  • FinTech (77)
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Investments by region
  • Estonia (154)
  • United Kingdom (57)
  • United States (50)
  • Lithuania (74)
  • South Africa (6)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
20M
Group Appearance index
0.24
Avg. company exit year
3

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Birl 17 Jun 2024 Fashion Seed 118K Greater Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Cyber Struggle 19 Sep 2023 Information Technology, Cyber Security, Network Security Seed 118K Harju maakond, Tallinn, Estonia

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