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Velum Ventures

Founders Esteban Mancuso Esteban Velasco

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$704K
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Small and Medium Businesses
  • Enterprise Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OFI

B2B
E-Commerce
Retail Technology
Sales
Software
$5M18 Jan 2017 Mexico

Merqueo

Delivery
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Grocery
$2M01 Nov 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Busqo

Automotive
Internet
Internet of Things
01 Oct 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Boxi Sleep

E-Commerce
Home Decor
Online Portals
Retail
01 May 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Colppy

Accounting
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
01 Aug 2015 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

FormaFina

E-Commerce
Fashion
Home Decor
Lifestyle
Marketplace
$2M04 Jun 2015 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Hogaru

Office Administration
Professional Services
Small and Medium Businesses
$560K01 Jun 2015 San Jose, California, United States

Tutorya

Education
Tutoring
01 Apr 2015 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

bodaplanes

E-Commerce
Event Management
Photography
01 Oct 2014 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

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Total investments 15
Average round size 704K
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OFI

B2B
E-Commerce
Retail Technology
Sales
Software
$5M18 Jan 2017 Mexico

Merqueo

Delivery
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Grocery
$2M01 Nov 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Busqo

Automotive
Internet
Internet of Things
01 Oct 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Boxi Sleep

E-Commerce
Home Decor
Online Portals
Retail
01 May 2016 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Colppy

Accounting
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
01 Aug 2015 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

FormaFina

E-Commerce
Fashion
Home Decor
Lifestyle
Marketplace
$2M04 Jun 2015 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Hogaru

Office Administration
Professional Services
Small and Medium Businesses
$560K01 Jun 2015 San Jose, California, United States

Tutorya

Education
Tutoring
01 Apr 2015 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

bodaplanes

E-Commerce
Event Management
Photography
01 Oct 2014 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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