Giuseppe Zocco - Index Ventures - Switzerland - Stanford Engineering - Feb 24 2014
1. Index Ventures!
Monday, February 24, 2014 !
Giuseppe Zocco!
Co-founder,!
Index Ventures!
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European Entrepreneurship & Innovation!
Stanford Engineering
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2. Index Ventures !
– Active since 1996!
– Geneva, London, San Francisco!
– Active in multiple tech hubs!
– 120 companies in 20 countries, 39 cities, employing 20k
people worldwide!
– Create (seed), develop (venture), accelerate (growth) !
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3. Who we look for !
– European born, building global category leaders!
– US companies with breakout international potential!
– Regional heroes!
– Tech and business model innovation!
– + scalability + originality + missionary + product DNA !
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4. Seed
is
the
new
A
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5. Seed is the new A!
– Seed is fundamental to a healthy ecosystem!
– It can also produce great rewards e.g. Climate!
– Why we helped start Seedcamp in 2007!
– New models: Angellist, Kickstarter and Funding Cirlce!
– Pushes us to look earlier !
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7. VC Backed cos are reshaping
every sector of the economy!
– Web+cloud+saas+fb=!
– aws+ios+android+hadoop=!
– new frontiers beyond communications / media /
entertainment !
– Agriculture, Healthcare, Financial Services, Education,
Work, Fashion !
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8. Massive increase in economic
relevance of VC-backed companies !
– Share of economy!
– Share of employment; new employment!
– Index portfolio alone in 2013: !
Generated EUR 4bn revenue!
Grew 75%!
Created 12k new jobs !
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12. VC is a risky business!
– We are all expert at killing deals!
– But need to keep thinking about what could go right?!
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13. Focus on the game-changers,
leads to outsized returns !
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14. Risk with reward !
– Power law: 62% of investments 1x and less but winners
are massive!
– For example; ASOS, Climate Corp, Criteo, MySQL,
Playfish, Pure Storage, Skype, Supercell!
– …but big exits can take time!
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15. VC is not a local business!
– Index made 30 early and later stage investments
since early 2012!
– + 40 seed deals!
Amsterdam
Aachen
Copenhagen
Dusseldorf
Paris
Los
Angeles
San
Francisco
Prague
Helsinki
New
York
London
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Tel
Aviv
Chicago
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16. It’s a global business!
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17. N. American v. European VC!
Geographic Split of VC Investment (2013)!
$bn Invested in Europe and N. America (2013)!
35
Europe
$4.7bn
11%
30
$bn
Invested
RoW
$3.9bn
10%
$29.5bn
$32.5bn
25
20
15
10
5
$4.1bn
$4.7bn
0
Europe
North
America
2012
2013
No. of Deals in Europe and N. America (2013)!
5,000
4,499
4,000
#
of
Deals
North
America
$32.5bn
79%
4,267
3,000
2,000
1,000
857
1,064
0
Europe
Source: CB Insights!
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North
America
2012
2013
18. European VC is Growing, Relatively!
Total $ of Venture Capital Invested Over Time (Rebased to 100)!
350
+215%!
$
Venture
Capital
Invested
(rebased
to
100)
300
250
+95%!
200
150
100
50
-‐
Q1
Q2
Q3
2009
Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q2
2010
Q3
Q4
Q1
2011
Europe
Funding
Q2
Q3
2012
Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
2013
US
Funding
Source: CB Insights!
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19. Investments Are Across Stages!
2013 VC Investments into European Companies by Stage!
300
$1,200m
$1,106m
250
235
$1,000m
241
$833m
Number
of
Deals
200
$800m
$605m
150
$600m
$490m
$368m
100
69
50
$400m
$237m
69
$200m
$119m
24
4
0
$0-‐1m
$1-‐5m
$5-‐10m
$10-‐25m
Amount
Invested
$25-‐50m
$50-‐100m
2
$100-‐250m
$0m
No
of
Deals
Source: CB Insights!
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20. And Across Geographies!
2013 VC Investments into European Companies, Top Countries!
$1,600m
350
$1,400m
300
250
$1,000m
200
$800m
150
No.
of
Deals
Total
Amount
Invested
$1,200m
$600m
100
$400m
50
$200m
$0m
0
UK
Germany
France
Sweden
Netherlands
Ireland
$
Invested
Italy
Belgium
Spain
Denmark
#
of
Deals
Source: CB Insights!
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21. Types of approaches!
– New entrants attacking entrenched incumbents!
– Lifeline for incumbents!
– New entrants creating a market !
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22. Embrace Risk !
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– It’s a lot cheaper to fail now!
– Too much capital is chasing fast IRR rather than big
multiple!
– Focus on enabling innovation!
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