Ventures Platform
Venture Capital
Active
Abuja, Nigeria
130
771K
97
16.25
21
0.25
1
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Ventures Platform is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Ikoyi. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in Nigeria.
Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Kudi, Paystack. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Internet. 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 - Nigeria.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Ventures Platform, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SpeedUPAfrica, Zeno Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Village Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Tencent Holdings, Google Launchpad Accelerator.
The important activity for fund was in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Ventures Platform is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 39 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars.
The current fund was established by Kola Aina. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 130
- Lead investments
- 21
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 16.25
- Follow on index
- 0.25
- Investments by industry
- FinTech (33)
- Financial Services (29)
- Internet (15)
- Finance (14)
- Information Technology (14) Show 92 more
- Investments by region
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- Nigeria (52)
- United States (21)
- Mexico (1)
- Canada (5)
- Tanzania (1) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.47
- Avg. company exit year
- 5
- Avg. multiplicator
- 17.14
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecho | 21 Jul 2021 | Automotive, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Auto Insurance | Seed | 125K | Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria |
| Notto | 22 Jun 2022 | Seed | 100K | England, London, United Kingdom |
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