With over 100 investments and more than 70 companies in its portfolio, Supernova Invest stands out for its unique expertise in DeepTech. They face a twofold challenge: broadening their scope to cover new themes and geographical areas, while rapidly seeking out accurate information to make informed decisions.
Étienne MOREAU
Deeptech Partner at Supernova Invest
Founded: 2017
Geographical presence: Europe
Fund category: Venture Capital (VC)
Total assets under management: €800m
Initial need : dealflow sourcing and enrichment
Data source(s) used : LinkedIn, Dealroom, Gartner, etc.
Number of tech/data profiles : 0
" With the extension of Supernova Invest's activities to new Deeptech themes and new geographical areas, we found ourselves faced with a huge volume of dealflow. We estimate that we have around 10,000 startups in Europe that are relevant to us and that we could finance," explains Etienne MOREAU, Deeptech Partner at Supernova Invest.
Supernova Invest was looking for a tool that would enable them to enrich their dealflow with alternative data, in order to monitor the start-ups on their radar in real time. To automate this monitoring, they decided to acquire the Invyo solution. This all-in-one solution handles database construction, raw data contextualization and signal detection, maintenance and team support, while offering an interactive and intuitive customer interface.
To enrich the dealflow, it was necessary to obtain a large amount of quality data.
"With Invyo, we aggregated nearly 55 data points from some twenty different sources on each of our target companies. This enabled us to target 500 priority companies from these 10,000, and automatically track their evolution over time. "says Étienne MOREAU.
Our solution has enabled them to obtain greater precision on which startups the Supernova fund should target first. Thanks to the solution's flexibility in retrieving quality data from a variety of sources (LinkedIn, Dealroom, Gartner, Google Patent, etc.), the investment teams gained in productivity.
"In the ecosystem, data-driven approaches have become absolutely indispensable. It's now an unavoidable conversation with our own investors, the LPs, those who subscribe to our funds. From now on, they expect us to have tools that enable us to have this new outbound sourcing strategy thanks to data-driven approaches", explains Étienne MOREAU.
Within the framework of the collaboration between Supernova Invest and Invyo, 3 points were fundamental to the success of the project:
With Invyo, we're at the state of the art in terms of technical possibilities, and our ambition is even to integrate Machine Learning components into the validation of our investment theses.
Michael Thomas
Investment Director
55
data points were aggregated for each company.
1000+
companies identified as relevant
before they start raising capital.
Invyo now gives us the ability to capture millions of data points across our entire ecosystem, bringing investment decisions closer to an exact science.
Étienne MOREAU
Deeptech Partner
at Supernova Invest
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