VIB
CVC
Active
Ghent, Belgium
21
18M
15
0.78
0.29
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
VIB appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1996. The company was established in Europe in Belgium. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Gent.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the VIB, startups are often financed by Gimv, Qbic, PMV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gimv, PMV, V-Bio Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gimv, Sofinnova Partners, Qbic Fund.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Belgium. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AgroSavfe, GlobalYeast, Aphea.Bio. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are AgTech, Industrial.
Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. This VIB works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 0.78
- Follow on index
- 0.29
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (19)
- Health Care (7)
- Agriculture (6)
- Health Diagnostics (4)
- Pharmaceutical (4) Show 9 more
- Investments by region
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- Belgium (19)
- Denmark (1)
- Brazil (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2020
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 4M
- Group Appearance index
- 1.00
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.56
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biotalys | 09 Mar 2017 | Biotechnology, AgTech, Agriculture | Early Stage Venture | 11M | Belgium, East Flanders, Ghent |
| Dualyx | 15 May 2023 | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | Early Stage Venture | 47M | Oost-Vlaanderen, Ghent, Belgium |
| VoterTide | 01 Feb 2012 | Seed | 500K | United States, Omaha, Nebraska |
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