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Unilever Ventures

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Total investments 145
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 90
Rounds per year 6.59
Lead investments 32
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 18
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
  • Beauty
  • Internet
  • Software
Summary

Unilever Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. Unilever Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Unilever Ventures, startups are often financed by MMC Ventures, Angel CoFund, ARCH Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MMC Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Physic Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MMC Ventures, Business Growth Fund, Angel CoFund.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Unilever Ventures works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Unilever Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Instacart, Perlegen Sciences, Brandtone. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Consumer Goods.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Perelel

Health Care
Medical
$6M01 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Straand

Health Care
Personal Health
$2M11 Dec 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

WishCare

Beauty
Cosmetics
Manufacturing
Retail
Wellness
$2M08 Nov 2023 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

What's Up Wellness

Fitness
Wellness
$1M09 Aug 2023 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Thesis

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$5M02 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Womaness️

Beauty
Cosmetics
Women's
14 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Straand

Health Care
Personal Health
$1M30 Jan 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ESQA

Beauty
Cosmetics
Retail
$6M29 Nov 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

YOU (Youvit)

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$6M19 Oct 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
News
CreatorIQ Raises $40 Million In New Capital To Further Accelerate Its Global Influencer Marketing Software Leadership Position

– CreatorIQ, the trusted platform used by global brands like AB InBev, Disney, Sephora and Unilever, announced a new funding round by existing investors TVC Capital, Kayne Partners Fund, Affinity Group, and Unilever Ventures. Silver Lake Waterman also joined the round as a new investor.
– The new investment brings the company’s total capital raised to over $80 million.
– CreatorIQ – the trusted platform used by global brands like AB InBev, Disney, Sephora and Unilever – will use the funding to further accelerate the leadership position of its Creator Intelligence Cloud, with a focus on e-commerce and measurement.

Pangaea Holdings, developing men’s personal care brands, raises $68M, including minority stake from Eurazeo

– Global investment group Eurazeo invested $53m in Pangaea Holdings for a minority investment in the Los Angeles e-commerce company rooted in creating premium men’s personal care brands.
– The investment is part of a larger $68m round that includes $15m in Series B funding from a group of backers including Unilever Ventures and GPO Fund and existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures.
– This brings the company’s total funds raised to $87m since the company was founded by Richard Hong and Darwish Gani in 2018.

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Total investments 145
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 6.59
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 32
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Perelel

Health Care
Medical
$6M01 Feb 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Straand

Health Care
Personal Health
$2M11 Dec 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

WishCare

Beauty
Cosmetics
Manufacturing
Retail
Wellness
$2M08 Nov 2023 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

What's Up Wellness

Fitness
Wellness
$1M09 Aug 2023 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Thesis

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$5M02 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

Womaness️

Beauty
Cosmetics
Women's
14 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

Straand

Health Care
Personal Health
$1M30 Jan 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ESQA

Beauty
Cosmetics
Retail
$6M29 Nov 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

YOU (Youvit)

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$6M19 Oct 2022 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
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