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Frontline Ventures

Founders Shay Garvey Will Prendergast

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Total investments 159
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 95
Rounds per year 13.25
Lead investments 28
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 11
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
  • Financial Services
Summary

Frontline Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Frontline Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 31 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this Frontline Ventures works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Frontline Ventures, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ireland, Tribal.vc, LaunchPad Venture Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tribal.vc, LocalGlobe, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, LocalGlobe, Speedinvest.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Ireland. 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Signal AI, Linked Finance, Drop. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Financial Services.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DUDE CHEM

Chemical
Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
$7M07 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Harriet

Internet
Virtual Assistant
$1M07 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Sweepr

Computer
Electronics
Home Services
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Software
$4M16 Nov 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Yonder

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
Retirement
$5M25 Oct 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Shackle

Apps
Hospitality
Information Services
Information Technology
$16M26 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

ClimateAligned

Artificial Intelligence
Sustainability
$2M07 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Insify

Commercial Insurance
Insurance
InsurTech
$11M07 Jun 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Nolea Health

$1M11 Apr 2023 -

Docbot Labs

Data Integration
Information Technology
Service Industry
Software
$794K02 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Software supply chain management company Cloudsmith raises $15M

– Cloudsmith has raised $15m in a series A funding round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Shasta, Amaranthine, Sorenson, Leadout Capital, Frontline, MMC, and Techstart.
– The infusion brings the company’s total raised to over $17m.
– Cloudsmith’s platform aims to solve this by helping organizations distribute software without the need for local datacenters and the costs associated with them.
– Cloudsmith can also automatically scan for security vulnerabilities, helping businesses avoid introducing exploits into their software supply chains.

Localyze Raises $12M in Funding

– Localyze, a Hamburg, Germany-based provider of an enterprise mobility platform, raised $12M in funding.
– The round was led by Blossom Capital with participation from previous investor Frontline Ventures and angels Andrew Robb (ex-Farfetch), Des Traynor, co-founder and CSO at Intercom, Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO at Personio, David Clarke, former CTO at Workday and Michael Wax, CEO of Forto.
– The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development and executive recruitment across engineering, product design and marketing and to expand into new regions – starting with starting with the major hubs for international talent, in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK.

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Total investments 159
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 13.25
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 28
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

DUDE CHEM

Chemical
Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
$7M07 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Harriet

Internet
Virtual Assistant
$1M07 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Sweepr

Computer
Electronics
Home Services
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Software
$4M16 Nov 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Yonder

Apps
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
Retirement
$5M25 Oct 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Shackle

Apps
Hospitality
Information Services
Information Technology
$16M26 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

ClimateAligned

Artificial Intelligence
Sustainability
$2M07 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Insify

Commercial Insurance
Insurance
InsurTech
$11M07 Jun 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Nolea Health

$1M11 Apr 2023 -

Docbot Labs

Data Integration
Information Technology
Service Industry
Software
$794K02 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
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