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UBS

Founders Jan Brzezek

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Total investments 116
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$158M
Portfolio companies 96
Rounds per year 0.68
Lead investments 27
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 23
Key employees 34
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
Summary

UBS appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1854. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Zu00fcrich. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from UBS is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This UBS works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the UBS, startups are often financed by GV, Credit Suisse, Union Square Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lazard Technology Partners, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Technology Partners.

The fund was created by Jan Brzezek. We also calculated 35 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Trading Platform, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lu.com, Legendary Entertainment, Airtel Africa. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nasdaq Private Market

Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Stock Exchanges
$62M08 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Terratai

$2M22 Nov 2023 Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$106M14 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Endowus

Advice
Financial Services
FinTech
$35M09 Aug 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

MerQube

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
$22M13 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

numarics

Accounting
Finance
Financial Services
SaaS
$12M06 Jul 2023 Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland

Droit

Finance
Financial Services
Information Technology
$23M07 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

Carbonplace

Financial Services
$45M08 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Protalento

EdTech
Employment
Higher Education
$3M01 Dec 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
News
FutureFuel.io Raises $10 Million Series A1 Round From the Investment Arms of Established Financial Services Entities Led by UBS

– FutureFuel.io, a student loan repayment platform that helps borrowers pay down debt quickly and efficiently, today announced a $10m Series A1 round, bringing its total Series A funding to $21.6M.
– This latest round was led by UBS, the world’s leading global wealth management firm, with additional participation from the investing arms of established technology, financial services, and insurance leaders, including new investor Aflac Ventures, and existing investors Fiserv, and Salesforce Ventures. Fiserv, Salesforce, and UBS are also customers of FutureFuel.io, leveraging the platform to address student debt within their workplace, as an employee benefit. All previous FutureFuel.io investors also participated in this round of funding, including Rethink Impact, Vulcan Capital, Breton, SixThirty, and the Impact Engine.

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Total investments 116
Average round size 158M
Rounds per year 0.68
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 27
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nasdaq Private Market

Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Stock Exchanges
$62M08 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Terratai

$2M22 Nov 2023 Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

Fnality International

Blockchain
Ethereum
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$106M14 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Endowus

Advice
Financial Services
FinTech
$35M09 Aug 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

MerQube

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
$22M13 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

numarics

Accounting
Finance
Financial Services
SaaS
$12M06 Jul 2023 Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland

Droit

Finance
Financial Services
Information Technology
$23M07 Mar 2023 New York, New York, United States

Carbonplace

Financial Services
$45M08 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Protalento

EdTech
Employment
Higher Education
$3M01 Dec 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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