Waypoint Capital
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80M
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0.54
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- Areas of investment
Summary
Waypoint Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Geneva. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as B2B, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nexthink, Zwift, Fornova. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Waypoint Capital, startups are often financed by VI Partners AG, Kleiner Perkins, CRV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Forestay Capital, Shasta Ventures, Novator. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ion Pacific, Highland Europe, True..
The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Waypoint Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Waypoint Capital works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
The overall number of key employees were 5.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.54
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (2)
- Health Care (2)
- Travel (1)
- B2B (1)
- E-Commerce (1) Show 14 more
- Investments by region
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- Sweden (1)
- United States (3)
- Switzerland (2)
- United Kingdom (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 334M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.86
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.35
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volta Trucks | 18 Feb 2022 | Automotive, Logistics, Last Mile Transportation, Electric Vehicle | Late Stage Venture | 271M | Stockholm County, Sweden, Sweden |
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