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Playfair Capital

Founders Federico Pirzio-Biroli

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Total investments 111
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 70
Rounds per year 10.09
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 4
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • E-Commerce
  • Machine Learning
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2013 was created Playfair Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The typical startup value when the investment from Playfair Capital is more than 1 billion dollars. This Playfair Capital works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Real Time. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stripe, Andela, DueDil. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The current fund was established by Federico Pirzio-Biroli. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Playfair Capital, startups are often financed by Passion Capital, Octopus Ventures, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Octopus Ventures, Meyer Bergman, MMC Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Octopus Ventures, Passion Capital, Oak Investment Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

StackOne

Data Integration
Developer APIs
SaaS
Software
$3M05 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Spotted Zebra

Human Resources
$10M31 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Continuum Industries

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$10M25 Sep 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ascento

Computer Vision
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics
$4M12 Sep 2023 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Umedeor

Health Care
Information Technology
Life Science
Medical
mHealth
Software
$13M04 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Material Evolution

Machine Learning
$20M29 Jun 2023 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Trezy

FinTech
SaaS
$3M15 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Nory AI

Artificial Intelligence
Hospitality
Information Technology
Restaurants
$8M17 May 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Spotted Zebra

Human Resources
$1M12 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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Worldr Raises $3M in Seed Funding

– Worldr, a London, UK-based provider of a platform that gives businesses back privacy and control over their data and communication, raised $3m in seed funding.
– The round was led by IQ Capital and Playfair Capital with participation from cyber seed investors including CyLon (co-founded by Grace Cassy and Jonathan Luff), Andreas Wuchner (Group Head of IT & Risk at Credit Suisse) and Privitar Co-Founder, John Taysom.
– The company intends to use the funds to continue to develop the product ahead of public launch later this year.

Orca AI, which puts computer vision onto cargo ships, raises $13M Series A funding

– Israeli startup Orca AI raised $13m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by OCV Partners, with principal Zohar Loshitzer joining Orca AI’s board.
Mizmaa Ventures and Playfair Capital also participated.
– The company was founded by naval technology experts Yarden Gross and Dor Raviv.
– The latter is a former Israel navy computer vision expert.
– Customers include Kirby, Ray Car Carriers and NYK.
– Orca AI’s AI-based navigation and vessel tracking system supports ships in difficult to tricky to navigate situations and congested waterways, using vision sensors, thermal and low-light cameras, plus algorithms that look at the environment and alert crews to dangerous situations.

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Total investments 111
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 10.09
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

StackOne

Data Integration
Developer APIs
SaaS
Software
$3M05 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Spotted Zebra

Human Resources
$10M31 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Continuum Industries

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
$10M25 Sep 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ascento

Computer Vision
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics
$4M12 Sep 2023 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Umedeor

Health Care
Information Technology
Life Science
Medical
mHealth
Software
$13M04 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Material Evolution

Machine Learning
$20M29 Jun 2023 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Trezy

FinTech
SaaS
$3M15 Jun 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Nory AI

Artificial Intelligence
Hospitality
Information Technology
Restaurants
$8M17 May 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Spotted Zebra

Human Resources
$1M12 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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