VIA Equity

Total investments

31

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

2.07

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

13

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileInformation ServicesEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingCloud ComputingAdvertisingConsulting

Summary

In 2006 was created VIA Equity, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Hellerup. The venture was found in Europe in Denmark.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the VIA Equity, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Steven Yaskin, Stan Chudnovsky. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tesi, ATP Private Equity Partners, Verdane. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by RUSNANO, Tesi, Plug and Play.

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

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consulting, Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nets, ComActivity, MTI Radiocomp ApS.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This VIA Equity works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
4
Exits
13
Rounds per year
2.07
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Internet (5)
  • Mobile (4)
  • Advertising (4)
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Investments by region
  • Denmark (19)
  • Finland (4)
  • Sweden (3)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • United States (1)
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Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
26
Avg. valuation at time of investment
326M
Group Appearance index
0.35
Avg. company exit year
26
Avg. multiplicator
37.58
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
GoIP International 05 Jan 2007 E-Commerce, Software, Messaging, SaaS, VoIP Early Stage Venture 2M Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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