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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$43M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 1.17
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 1
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
Summary

The fund was located in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Melbourne.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Hostplus, startups are often financed by IP Group Plc, Woodford Investment Management, Blackbird Ventures (Australia). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IP Group Plc, Woodford Investment Management, Square Peg Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Square Peg Capital, Salesforce Ventures, NAB Ventures.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Hostplus the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Genetics, Biopharma. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Cardiac Dimensions, Bugcrowd

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fleet Space Technologies

Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$36M24 May 2023 Australia, Western Australia, Australia

AudioScenic

3D Technology
Audio
Computer Vision
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Software
15 Feb 2023 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Oxbotica

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Software
$157M10 Jan 2023 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Morse Micro

Internet of Things
Semiconductor
Wireless
$21M28 Nov 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Diffblue

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Software
$8M21 Nov 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Vow

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$53M14 Nov 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Nourish Ingredients

$28M19 Oct 2022 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

AMSL Aero

Transportation
$23M06 Sep 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hysata

Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$31M01 Aug 2022 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
News
MOBILion Systems Raises $60M in Series C Funding

– MOBILion System from Chadds Fords develops high-resolution instrumentation for biomarker discovery.
– The company raised $60M in Series C funding.
– The round was led by D1 Capital Partners with participation from aMoon, Agilent Technologies, IP Group, Hostplus and Cultivation Capital.
– The new investment will be used to scale the commercialization of MOBIE® and advance product development for expansion into bioprocessing and multiomic biomarker discovery markets.

Rocket startup Gilmour Space raises $46M Series C to take its small launch vehicle to orbit

– Gilmour Space Technologies, an Australian rocket launch startup, raised $61m funding.
– The round was led by Fine Structure Ventures and included contributions from Blackbird and Main Sequence, and Australian pension funds HESTA, Hostplus and NGS Super.
– The company plans to use the funds to nearly double its workforce, from 70 to 120 employees, and develop a new commercial spaceport at Abbot Point, Queensland.
– Gilmour Space has already signed agreements with prospective customers for future Eris launches.

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Total investments 42
Average round size 43M
Rounds per year 1.17
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fleet Space Technologies

Internet of Things
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$36M24 May 2023 Australia, Western Australia, Australia

AudioScenic

3D Technology
Audio
Computer Vision
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Software
15 Feb 2023 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Oxbotica

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Software
$157M10 Jan 2023 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Morse Micro

Internet of Things
Semiconductor
Wireless
$21M28 Nov 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Diffblue

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Software
$8M21 Nov 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Vow

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$53M14 Nov 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Nourish Ingredients

$28M19 Oct 2022 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

AMSL Aero

Transportation
$23M06 Sep 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hysata

Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$31M01 Aug 2022 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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