TLcom Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Total investments

55

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

2.20

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

9

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyMobileMarketplaceGroceryWirelessAgriculture

Summary

In 1999 was created TLcom Capital Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The current fund was established by Maurizio Caio. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this TLcom Capital Partners performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Andela, PacketFront Software, Twiga Foods We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, E-Commerce. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the TLcom Capital Partners, startups are often financed by International Finance Corporation, CRE Venture Capital, Spark Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are International Finance Corporation, Golden Palm Investments, Gemini Israel Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Goldman Sachs, TTP Ventures, SEB Venture Capital.

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Investor highlights

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500K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 154000000
Fund raised date
2024-04-22

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
18
Exits
9
Rounds per year
2.20
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Mobile (15)
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Internet (9)
  • Wireless (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Nigeria (16)
  • Kenya (9)
  • Sweden (2)
  • United Kingdom (5)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
41M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.52
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cuebiq 18 May 2018 Analytics, Retail Technology, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Market Research, Advertising, Location Based Services Early Stage Venture 27M United States, New York, New York
Zone 18 Mar 2024 Seed 8M Lagos, Lekki, Nigeria

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