Valve Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Helsinki, Finland

Total investments

14

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.93

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.29

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedical DevicePersonal HealthHome Health CareCleanTechmHealthEnergy

Summary

In 2007 was created Valve Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in Finland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Helsinki.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Valve Ventures, startups are often financed by VNT Management, Tekes, European Commission. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lifeline Ventures, Virata Corp., VNT Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Virata Corp., Tekes.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Personal Health, Mobile Payments. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Finland. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infinited Fiber Company, Sulapac, Norsepower Oy.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.93
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Energy (4)
  • CleanTech (3)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Software (2)
  • Health Diagnostics (2)
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Investments by region
  • Finland (14)
Peak activity year
2016

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Group Appearance index
0.64

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AISTI 19 Apr 2022 Building Material, Construction Seed 1M Western Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland
Sulapac 06 Apr 2017 CleanTech, Sustainability, Packaging Services, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing Seed 1M Finland, Uusimaa, Helsinki

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