Go Beyond Investing has published its second investor report with some interesting data. Most important: 80% of Go Beyond investors are receiving returns. Investors with 5 or more investments have an average portfolio annualized return of 15%. The Go Beyond community includes more than 300 investors. Almost half of them are women.
Go Beyond Investing, the International FinTech platform, has published its second Go Beyond Investor Report. It is based on data from 2008 to 2015 from investments made by all investors who use the Go Beyond Investing approach. It shows that the investors are engaged: 92% of members have made at least one investment; they are receiving returns: 80% of these members have a break even or positive portfolio return; and they are receiving liquidity: 77% of members with 2 years or more since their first investment have received some money back from exits.
All of this shows that Go Beyond is leading the way for early stage investing as an asset class.
Key Facts and Figures:
• Go Beyond Investing’s community includes 339 early stage investors. 92% have invested at least once and 58% have invested multiple times. Members come from 30 countries across 5 continents, with the majority in Europe. 47% are women.
• Go Beyond Investing’s community have made investments in 48 companies from 12 countries through 108 investment rounds. These innovative startups come from a wide variety of sectors.
• Go Beyond Investing’s community have portfolio returns and liquidity: CHF13.8m has been invested returning CHF 13.6m cash, before fees, to investors as of December 2015. Of the 48 companies invested, 8 have exited (either positively or negatively). Each GBI investor makes his or her own investment decisions. Investors with 5 or more investments have an average portfolio annualized return of 15%.
The report includes also information about the success factors of investors with higher returns. Successful Go Beyond investors take a managed portfolio rather than a lottery approach, access good deal flow curated by the investor community, use small tickets and syndication tools to learn, test the water and reduce risk, leverage shared intelligence and participate in training opportunities, keep a good portion of their investment budget for follow-on rounds. Data shows annualized returns are 1.8x higher for follow-on rounds than for initial rounds.
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