Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Helsinki, Finland

Total investments

125

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

91

Rounds per year

4.31

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingHardware

Summary

Tesi is the famous VC, which was founded in 1995. The company was established in Europe in Finland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Helsinki.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Enevo, ICEYE, M-Files Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Finland.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Tesi, startups are often financed by Lifeline Ventures, OpenOcean, Conor Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OpenOcean, Conor Venture Partners, Inventure. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by First Fellow Partners, Reaktor Ventures, Lifeline Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The important activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Tesi performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The overall number of key employees were 16.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistHealthcareDeep TechManufacturingClimate tech
Stage focus
SeedSeries CSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Finland
Check size
2M — 16M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
125
Lead investments
11
Exits
9
Rounds per year
4.31
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Software (39)
  • Manufacturing (22)
  • Health Care (14)
  • Information Technology (14)
  • Hardware (13)
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Investments by region
  • Finland (112)
  • United States (8)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • Argentina (1)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
20M
Group Appearance index
0.95
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.54
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
IQM 22 Jul 2022 Product Design, Computer, Hardware, Quantum Computing Early Stage Venture 151M Uusimaa, Espoo, Finland
Onego Bio 02 Apr 2024 Early Stage Venture 31M Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland

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