Velum Ventures

Total investments

15

Average round size

704K

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

1.50

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareRetailB2BRetail TechnologySalesSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSmall and Medium BusinessesHome Decor

Summary

In 2012 was created Velum Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Medellu00edn. The fund was located in South America if to be more exact in Colombia.

The fund was created by Esteban Mancuso, Esteban Velasco.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Colombia. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline FormaFina, FLUVIP, OFI Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Subscription Service, Education. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. Opposing the other organizations, this Velum Ventures works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Velum Ventures, startups are often financed by Wayra, NXTP Labs, Veronorte. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are INVX, Wayra, Veronorte. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TheVentureCity, Rise Capital, Endeavor Catalyst.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
0
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.50
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (9)
  • Software (4)
  • SaaS (2)
  • Small and Medium Businesses (2)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
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Investments by region
  • Mexico (2)
  • Colombia (10)
  • Brazil (1)
  • United States (1)
  • Argentina (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
414K
Group Appearance index
0.40
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.33

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Colppy 01 Aug 2015 Accounting, Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Small and Medium Businesses Seed 0 Argentina, Entre Ríos Province
FormaFina 04 Jun 2015 E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Marketplace, Fashion, Home Decor Seed 2M São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Spot 01 Jan 2020 Software, Human Resources, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Computer, Employment, Compliance Seed United States, California, San Francisco

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