The CoFoundry

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Antwerp, Belgium

Total investments

14

Average round size

876K

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

4

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
PublishingSoftwareInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityInternet of Things

Summary

The CoFoundry is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The company was established in Europe in Belgium. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Antwerp.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the The CoFoundry, startups are often financed by iMinds, Kickstarter, EuropeanPioneers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij, University of Leuven, Meusinvest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Epilepsy, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ticto. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 fund investment industries, there are Information Services, E-Commerce.

The fund was created by Bert Van Wassenhove.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Total investments
14
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.00
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • SaaS (2)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Internet of Things (2)
  • Network Security (2)
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Investments by region
  • Belgium (11)
  • United States (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • The Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.36

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aloxy 07 Sep 2018 Internet of Things, Service Industry, Industrial Early Stage Venture 2M Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
intigriti 22 Mar 2017 Cyber Security, Network Security, Security, Cloud Security Seed 0 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Lightbend 26 May 2016 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software Engineering, Big Data, Data Integration, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Applications Late Stage Venture 20M United States, California, San Francisco

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