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The Refiners

Founders Carlos Diaz Geraldine Le Meur Pierre Gaubil

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$312K
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 6.43
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer
  • Music
  • Health Care
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ELSI Skin Health Inc. (dba Dr. Elsa Jungman)

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Health Care
$1M22 Oct 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Phantombuster

Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
$719K01 May 2019 Ile-de-France

RapidPricer B.V.

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Software
$236K10 Oct 2018 North Holland

ELSI Skin Health Inc. (dba Dr. Elsa Jungman)

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Health Care
$100K01 Oct 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

inmemori

06 Sep 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

ZAR

Artificial Intelligence
eSports
Gaming
Sports
$100K19 Jul 2018 United States, San Francisco

Snipfeed

Media and Entertainment
Mobile
$200K09 Jul 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Tempow

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Mobile Devices
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$4M23 May 2018 Ile-de-France

RapidMathematix

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Software
15 Mar 2018 United States, San Francisco

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Total investments 45
Average round size 312K
Rounds per year 6.43
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.33

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ELSI Skin Health Inc. (dba Dr. Elsa Jungman)

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Health Care
$1M22 Oct 2019 San Francisco, California, United States

Phantombuster

Big Data
Cloud Data Services
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
$719K01 May 2019 Ile-de-France

RapidPricer B.V.

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Retail Technology
Software
$236K10 Oct 2018 North Holland

ELSI Skin Health Inc. (dba Dr. Elsa Jungman)

Biotechnology
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Health Care
$100K01 Oct 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

inmemori

06 Sep 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

ZAR

Artificial Intelligence
eSports
Gaming
Sports
$100K19 Jul 2018 United States, San Francisco

Snipfeed

Media and Entertainment
Mobile
$200K09 Jul 2018 Los Angeles, California, United States

Tempow

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Mobile Devices
Semiconductor
Software
Wireless
$4M23 May 2018 Ile-de-France

RapidMathematix

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Software
15 Mar 2018 United States, San Francisco
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