VentureSouq
Venture Capital
Active
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
158
7M
117
14.36
4
0.24
2
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
VentureSouq is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the Dubai. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in United Arab Emirates.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the VentureSouq, startups are often financed by Empire Angels, Theo Osborne, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pioneer Fund, 500 Startups, Kenji Niwa. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, NGP Capital.
The current fund was established by Sonia Gokhale, Sonia Weymuller, Suneel Gokhale, Tammer Qaddumi. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fetchr, Sourcify, NexGenT. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The top activity for fund was in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The typical startup value when the investment from VentureSouq is 50-100 millions dollars.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 50000000
- Fund raised date
- 2021-11-21
Analytics
- Total investments
- 158
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 14.36
- Follow on index
- 0.24
- Investments by industry
- Financial Services (38)
- Software (31)
- FinTech (29)
- E-Commerce (26)
- Payments (20) Show 171 more
- Investments by region
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- United Arab Emirates (24)
- Saudi Arabia (20)
- United States (46)
- Algeria (2)
- Pakistan (8) Show 15 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 5
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 57M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.89
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom | 06 Jun 2024 | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking | Seed | 5M | England, London, United Kingdom |
| Metriport | 21 Dec 2022 | Software, Health Care, Developer Tools, Open Source | Seed | 2M | United States, California, San Francisco |
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