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TURN8

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Total investments 48
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$137K
Portfolio companies 46
Rounds per year 4.80
Lead investments 21
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Logistics
Summary

In 2013 was created TURN8, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Asia in United Arab Emirates. The main department of described VC is located in the Dubai.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Transportation. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline what3words, what3words, NEXT Future Transportation The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the TURN8, startups are often financed by VentureSouq, Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wildcat Venture Partners, dotforge, Womena. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Raed Ventures, Wamda Capital, Prime Venture Partners.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Comparing to the other companies, this TURN8 performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. When the investment is from TURN8 the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AirGo Design

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Business Travel
Consulting
Lifestyle
Manufacturing
Simulation
Transportation
Travel
$1M01 Jun 2018 Central

NEXT Future Transportation

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Public Transportation
Robotics
Smart Cities
Transportation
$1M20 Jan 2018 San Jose, California, United States

Democrance

Finance
Financial Services
Insurance
$800K22 Oct 2017 Dubai

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
$300K02 Sep 2017 England

Adgero

CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Fleet Management
Transportation
$100K01 Aug 2017 England

Adgero

CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Fleet Management
Transportation
$100K01 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

ZingoHub

Communities
Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing
E-Commerce
Financial Services
Mobile Payments
$35K20 Dec 2016 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Visage

Artificial Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Employment
Human Resources
Recruiting
$356K01 Nov 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

SolidFace Technology

3D Printing
3D Technology
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Manufacturing
Software
$50K20 Oct 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

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Total investments 48
Average round size 137K
Rounds per year 4.80
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.29

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AirGo Design

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Business Travel
Consulting
Lifestyle
Manufacturing
Simulation
Transportation
Travel
$1M01 Jun 2018 Central

NEXT Future Transportation

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Public Transportation
Robotics
Smart Cities
Transportation
$1M20 Jan 2018 San Jose, California, United States

Democrance

Finance
Financial Services
Insurance
$800K22 Oct 2017 Dubai

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
$300K02 Sep 2017 England

Adgero

CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Fleet Management
Transportation
$100K01 Aug 2017 England

Adgero

CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Fleet Management
Transportation
$100K01 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

ZingoHub

Communities
Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing
E-Commerce
Financial Services
Mobile Payments
$35K20 Dec 2016 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Visage

Artificial Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Employment
Human Resources
Recruiting
$356K01 Nov 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

SolidFace Technology

3D Printing
3D Technology
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Manufacturing
Software
$50K20 Oct 2016 Austin, Texas, United States
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