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Ventures Platform

Founders Kola Aina

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Total investments 109
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$503K
Portfolio companies 89
Rounds per year 15.57
Lead investments 11
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Internet
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chargel

Logistics
$2M20 Apr 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Fez

Delivery
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$1M28 Mar 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Credable

Financial Services
$2M20 Mar 2023 Tanzania

Talstack

10 Mar 2023 -

Raenest

$2M02 Mar 2023 -

PressOne

$600K10 Feb 2023 -

Fez

Delivery
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
20 Jan 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Shekel Mobility

$900K01 Nov 2022 -

Remedial Health

$4M20 Sep 2022 Delaware, United States

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Total investments 109
Average round size 503K
Rounds per year 15.57
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.38

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chargel

Logistics
$2M20 Apr 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Fez

Delivery
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
$1M28 Mar 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Credable

Financial Services
$2M20 Mar 2023 Tanzania

Talstack

10 Mar 2023 -

Raenest

$2M02 Mar 2023 -

PressOne

$600K10 Feb 2023 -

Fez

Delivery
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
Transportation
20 Jan 2023 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Shekel Mobility

$900K01 Nov 2022 -

Remedial Health

$4M20 Sep 2022 Delaware, United States
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