Vy Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Total investments

82

Average round size

218M

Portfolio companies

56

Rounds per year

7.45

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyAppsMobile AppsMarketplaceService Industry

Summary

Vy Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dubai. The company was established in Asia in United Arab Emirates.

The current fund was established by Alexander Tamas. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2006. Comparing to the other companies, this Vy Capital performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Vy Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Service Industry, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Reddit, Zomato Media, Koudai Gouwu The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Vy Capital, startups are often financed by Info Edge, Sequoia Capital, Scott Belsky. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Social Capital, Craft Ventures, Valor Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/ContentTelecommunications
Stage focus
Generalist
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
82
Lead investments
9
Exits
4
Rounds per year
7.45
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Apps (14)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • FinTech (12)
  • Internet (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (47)
  • India (20)
  • China (4)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Spain (2)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
13
Number of Minotaurs
5

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
2
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gold Lasso 11 Mar 2011 Messaging, Advertising, Email Seed 400K United States, Maryland
wifi.com.ng 26 Jun 2017 Internet, Service Industry, Wireless, Video on Demand Seed 2M Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
xAI 26 May 2024 Information Technology, Machine Learning Early Stage Venture 6B United States, Texas, Austin
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