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The CoFoundry

Founders Bert Van Wassenhove

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$876K
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 2.00
Lead investments 4
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet of Things
  • Network Security
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vaultspeed

SaaS
Software
$4M17 Mar 2021 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

MyCellHub

Analytics
Manufacturing
$1M12 Sep 2019 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Aloxy

Industrial
Internet of Things
Service Industry
$2M07 Sep 2018 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Ticto

Cyber Security
Information Services
Information Technology
Network Security
Security
$2M08 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Small Teaser

Content
Digital Media
Publishing
$944K13 Jul 2017 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium

Epihunter

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Medical
Software
26 Apr 2017 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium

intigriti

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
22 Mar 2017 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Ario

Public Safety
Railroad
Transportation
$1M30 Dec 2016 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium

Skedify

B2B
Enterprise Software
Internet
SaaS
Software
29 Dec 2016 Gelderland

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Total investments 14
Average round size 876K
Rounds per year 2.00
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 4
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.36

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vaultspeed

SaaS
Software
$4M17 Mar 2021 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

MyCellHub

Analytics
Manufacturing
$1M12 Sep 2019 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Aloxy

Industrial
Internet of Things
Service Industry
$2M07 Sep 2018 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Ticto

Cyber Security
Information Services
Information Technology
Network Security
Security
$2M08 Dec 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

Small Teaser

Content
Digital Media
Publishing
$944K13 Jul 2017 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium

Epihunter

Health Care
Information Services
Information Technology
Medical
Software
26 Apr 2017 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium

intigriti

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Network Security
Security
22 Mar 2017 Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Ario

Public Safety
Railroad
Transportation
$1M30 Dec 2016 Belgium, Limburg, Belgium

Skedify

B2B
Enterprise Software
Internet
SaaS
Software
29 Dec 2016 Gelderland
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