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Direct Line Insurance

Founders Peter Wood

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 1
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Information Technology
  • Fleet Management
  • Insurance
  • FinTech
Summary

In 1985 was created Direct Line Insurance, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bromley.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Direct Line Insurance, startups are often financed by Pelion Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Grandbrook Ltd. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UEC Group, Fosun Group, Experian. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc., University Growth Fund.

The current fund was established by Peter Wood.

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. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Canopy, PawSquad, The Floow Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Fleet Management.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FiveAI

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Software
$41M03 Mar 2020 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Canopy

Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
$2M08 Oct 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Canopy

E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
$2M04 Oct 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 6
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FiveAI

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Machine Learning
Software
$41M03 Mar 2020 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Canopy

Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
$2M08 Oct 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Canopy

E-Commerce
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
$2M04 Oct 2017 London, England, United Kingdom
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