The Refiners

Total investments

45

Average round size

312K

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

6.43

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSSportsMusicComputerConsumer Electronics

Summary

The Refiners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from The Refiners is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the The Refiners, startups are often financed by Wilco, Nex Cubed, Xavier Gury. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OneRagtime, Nicolas Steegmann, NUMA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Partech, OneRagtime, ZTP - Ze 12th Player.

The fund was created by Carlos Diaz, Geraldine Le Meur, Pierre Gaubil.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Tempow, Willo, InMemori. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Consumer Electronics, Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
45
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
6.43
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Computer (5)
  • Music (5)
  • Health Care (5)
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Investments by region
  • France (14)
  • United States (27)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • Belgium (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2017

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
620K
Group Appearance index
0.33
Avg. company exit year
5

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