VentureFriends

Summary

VentureFriends is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Greece. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Athens.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AdEspresso, accusonus, Douleutaras. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Greece. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Real Estate, Internet.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the VentureFriends, startups are often financed by Openfund, Apostolos Apostolakis, PJ Tech Catalyst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IQbility, PJ Tech Catalyst, Openfund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Openfund, Jabbar Internet Group, WestCap.

The real fund results show that this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this VentureFriends performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from VentureFriends the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The current fund was established by Apostolos Apostolakis, George Dimopoulos. The overall number of key employees were 2.