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Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

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Total investments 89
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$947K
Portfolio companies 83
Rounds per year 8.90
Lead investments 33
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Food and Beverage
Summary

In 2014 was created Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Sheffield.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 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 Pimberly, ITS Technology Group, MicroBioSensor. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Computer, Information Technology.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Volker Hirsch, Seneca Partners, SBRI Healthcare. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NPIF u2013 Mercia Equity Finance, Mercia Technologies, Maven Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shadow Foundr, Praetura Ventures, Northern Stars.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. This Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund is 5-10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sitehop

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

FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics

Analytics
Big Data
Information Services
$2M09 Oct 2023 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

AssetCool

Chemical Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
$3M14 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Biorelate

Big Data
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$8M29 Nov 2022 Oldham, England, United Kingdom

Elements Technology

Manufacturing
Mobile Apps
SaaS
$342K01 Mar 2019 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Horizon Guides

Publishing
Travel
$445K30 Jan 2019 United Kingdom, England

Fire Safety Managers

Public Safety
$47K16 Jan 2019 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Connectus Group

Communications Infrastructure
$205K05 Dec 2018 United Kingdom, England

Creation 360 Group

Graphic Design
$342K23 Nov 2018 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
News
Soccer Manager Raises £3M in Funding

– Soccer Manager from Preston, UK, raised £3m in funding.
– The round was led by its existing investor Mercia’s own funds, the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and the Government’s Future Fund.
– The company intends to use the funds to grow its user base in the Middle East and Far East through local language translations, further develop its SM 2022 game which is due to launch this autumn, and relaunch its original multi-player game, SM World, by creating new apps and adding new features.

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Total investments 89
Average round size 947K
Rounds per year 8.90
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 33
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.35

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sitehop

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

FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics

Analytics
Big Data
Information Services
$2M09 Oct 2023 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

AssetCool

Chemical Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
$3M14 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Biorelate

Big Data
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$8M29 Nov 2022 Oldham, England, United Kingdom

Elements Technology

Manufacturing
Mobile Apps
SaaS
$342K01 Mar 2019 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Horizon Guides

Publishing
Travel
$445K30 Jan 2019 United Kingdom, England

Fire Safety Managers

Public Safety
$47K16 Jan 2019 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Connectus Group

Communications Infrastructure
$205K05 Dec 2018 United Kingdom, England

Creation 360 Group

Graphic Design
$342K23 Nov 2018 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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