The icon, the new VC company is based on Paris, declare the first fund closing. Eight months after closing the first time the icon team made a € 80 million in total (around $ 85 million at the current rates). This is not in the fundamental environment now. According to the latest countries from Atomico technology reports, in 2024, funds fall in the third year. One of the main reasons is the acquisition and the ipos not occur now. As a result, VC is a lesser investment category than you used to. Some VC companies are struggling to add funds to follow the boom for the current intelligence, which may indicate many investment opportunities. But that does not stop from the hard cover – the maximum number of adjustment. Founded by the General of Soissan and Guillaume Durao, the duo has made some interesting investments as business angels before creating an icon. She invest in game Trading Card Cards Carpto Sorare, Dalma Insurance Insurance Pet, and Bourmey Meat Fabric, For a few names. They want to open the only step with the right VC vc, which is for the icon, the seed investment companies you want to make 25 to 30 investments with initial funds. Ideally, they prefer to guide or the lead seeds with tickets from the ticket from € 500,000 to € 3,000. But strictly refused another lead investors if there is a good opportunity. The icon has investing in 16 starting starting on the first 2023 March. TechCrunch has been covering some. Examples include: Pivot, Drive Instructor and competitors. The first-first company, the Free B2B free app inspired by Voodoo and other consumer app studio. Altrove, new companies company uses AI and auto lab automatically to speed up research. Volta, online trading platforms like Shopify, but focus on B2B transactions. Different portfolios when there is an area of focus, but also geographically focus. “We’ve made 16 investments. To give an idea, there are eight from France, six in Nordics – Denmark, Sweden – and then we make one in Italy,” de privatelis soels incorporating the techcrunch. Focus emblem core remains in France and Nordik technology ecosystem. Having more than 200 limited partners in the first fund, including family officers and entrepreneurs, such as bidding, offers, ledgers and zendesk. They make more than half of the total. The rest has been raised from many funds, as well as commitments from both EIFFOs (funding funds) and Bffrance (French housing funds). The icon is thinking about the next fund, which must be the same size as this. “Now we’ve got some time when we don’t have to raise. So we want to feel. But you don’t want to die in the market,” said Soelsan. “So, because it takes four years to spread, and we are about halfway through, mean for a year, we have to start again.”
