Walerud Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Stockholm, Sweden
25
1M
21
1.25
5
0.16
8
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Walerud Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Stockholm. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden.
Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Walerud Ventures works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2002.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Walerud Ventures, startups are often financed by Swedish Energy Agency, MOOR, KTH Holding. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Almi Invest, Sting, Forward Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sting, Spintop Ventures, Sequoia Capital.
Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Klarna, Datawatch Corp, Swedish Algae Factory Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Satellite Communication, Consumer. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Sweden.
The fund was created by Bengt Walerud, Caroline Walerud, Jane Walerud. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 25
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 1.25
- Follow on index
- 0.16
- Investments by industry
- Internet (5)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Internet of Things (3)
- E-Commerce (3) Show 37 more
- Investments by region
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- Sweden (19)
- United States (3)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Switzerland (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2005
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 280M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.28
- Avg. company exit year
- 13
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paebbl | 25 Oct 2022 | Environmental Engineering, Mineral | Seed | 9M | |
| Panopticon Software AB | 01 Jan 2003 | Internet, Software | Seed | 0 | Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden |
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