Verlinvest

Summary

Verlinvest appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1995. The main department of described VC is located in the Brussels. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Belgium.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Verlinvest is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Verlinvest works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The current fund was established by Fru00e9du00e9ric de Mevius. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chewy, Lazada Group, 111, Inc.. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Retail, E-Commerce.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Verlinvest, startups are often financed by DSG Consumer Partners, Summit Partners, Saama Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DSG Consumer Partners, Kinnevik AB, Unilever Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kinnevik AB, DSG Consumer Partners, Rocket Internet.