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Manta Ray Ventures

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Total investments 69
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 44
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Education
Summary

The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Manta Ray Ventures, startups are often financed by Troy Capital Partners, Point Nine Capital, The Pritzker Organization. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kulczyk Investments, Upfront Ventures, Social Starts. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seedcamp, Prosus, Idinvest Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Booksy, Brainly, Toonstar The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sitehop

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Software
$6M28 Feb 2024 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Ossium Health

Biotechnology
Health Care
$52M25 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Bluu Bioscience

$18M28 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

HelloSelf

Fitness
Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
$20M14 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Kadence

$10M06 Dec 2022 -

Juvena Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$41M08 Nov 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Nomagic

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Logistics
Robotics
$22M24 May 2022 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Better Dairy

AgTech
Food and Beverage
$25M28 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Future Meat Technologies

Biotechnology
Food Processing
Manufacturing
Organic Food
$347M17 Dec 2021 Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
News
Ossium Health Raises $63M in Series B Funding

– Ossium Health is a therapeutics company that leverages stem cell science to improve treatment for patients with blood and immune diseases.
– The company raised $63m in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by General Catalyst and Vivo Capital with participation from previous investors First Round Capital, Manta Ray Ventures, and XYZ Capital.
– The new investment will be used to develop stem cell therapies for patients with life-threatening blood and immune diseases.

HelloSelf Raises £5.5M in Series A Funding

– HelloSelf is a London, UK-based AI-powered digital therapy service.
– The company raised £5.5M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by OMERS Ventures, with participation from Manta Ray Ventures, Oxford Capital Partners, and 2EnablePartners. In conjunction with the funding, Harry Briggs, OMERS Ventures Managing Partner will join the board.
– The company intends to use the funds to grow its @Work service, increasing its clinical provision for employers of all sizes across the UK.

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Total investments 69
Average round size 21M
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sitehop

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Software
$6M28 Feb 2024 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Ossium Health

Biotechnology
Health Care
$52M25 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Bluu Bioscience

$18M28 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

HelloSelf

Fitness
Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
$20M14 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Kadence

$10M06 Dec 2022 -

Juvena Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$41M08 Nov 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States

Nomagic

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Infrastructure
Logistics
Robotics
$22M24 May 2022 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Better Dairy

AgTech
Food and Beverage
$25M28 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Future Meat Technologies

Biotechnology
Food Processing
Manufacturing
Organic Food
$347M17 Dec 2021 Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
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