Vinnova

Type

Government organization

Status

Active

Location

Stockholm, Sweden

Total investments

67

Average round size

218K

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

2.91

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSMedicalPharmaceutical

Summary

Vinnova is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2001. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Stockholm. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Vinnova performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Vinnova, startups are often financed by Almi Invest, European Commission, Tord Wingren. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are EIT Digital Accelerator, Dan Nilsson, Almi Invest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Almi Invest, European Commission.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fundler, NeuroVive Pharmaceutical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
67
Lead investments
25
Exits
8
Rounds per year
2.91
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (14)
  • Software (11)
  • Biotechnology (11)
  • Medical (10)
  • Machine Learning (6)
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Investments by region
  • Sweden (65)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
972K
Group Appearance index
0.07
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Pirr 01 May 2022 Software Seed 210K Södermanland, Stockholm, Sweden

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