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NIF Ventures

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Total investments 40
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 28
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 16
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
  • Medical
Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this NIF Ventures performs on 13 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from NIF Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2001.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vpacket Communications, Accelight Networks, Netcontinuum. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the NIF Ventures, startups are often financed by 3i Group, Gimv, Scottish Equity Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gimv, 3i Group, Yasuda Enterprise Development. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yasuda Enterprise Development, The Cambridge Gateway Fund, TVM Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Elixent

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$15M06 Apr 2005 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

TorreyPines Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$34M17 Mar 2005 San Diego, California, United States

BioXell

Association
Biotechnology
Education
Medical
$27M20 Oct 2004 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Psytechnics

Enterprise Software
Real Time
Video
$11M27 May 2004 England

Plexxikon

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceuticals
$46M26 May 2004 Berkeley, California, United States

Hardware
Software
Wireless
$6M21 May 2004 Cupertino, California, United States

Anadigm

Embedded Systems
Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$15M02 Oct 2003 Mesa, Arizona, United States

Arrow Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$28M01 Oct 2003 England

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$10M08 Jul 2003 England

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Total investments 40
Average round size 18M
Peak activity year 2001
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Elixent

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$15M06 Apr 2005 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

TorreyPines Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$34M17 Mar 2005 San Diego, California, United States

BioXell

Association
Biotechnology
Education
Medical
$27M20 Oct 2004 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Psytechnics

Enterprise Software
Real Time
Video
$11M27 May 2004 England

Plexxikon

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceuticals
$46M26 May 2004 Berkeley, California, United States

Hardware
Software
Wireless
$6M21 May 2004 Cupertino, California, United States

Anadigm

Embedded Systems
Enterprise Software
Hardware
Software
$15M02 Oct 2003 Mesa, Arizona, United States

Arrow Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$28M01 Oct 2003 England

Electronics
Hardware
Semiconductor
$10M08 Jul 2003 England
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