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Hotspur Capital

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Total investments 62
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$539K
Portfolio companies 37
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Social Media
  • Advertising
  • Location Based Services
Summary

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Hotspur Capital performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, B2B. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Illumix Software, Cogenta Systems, Antix Labs.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Hotspur Capital, startups are often financed by Simon Murdoch, Enterprise Ventures, Northstar Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Northstar Ventures, IP Group Plc, Rising Stars Growth Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Northstar Ventures, IP Group Plc, Seedrs.

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1 Enterprise Ventures
2 Northstar Ventures
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Team
Colin Willis Managing Director

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$1M27 Sep 2016
Northstar Ventures
Max Capital
Hotspur Capital
Angel CoFund
 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$411K11 May 2016
Hotspur Capital
Northstar Ventures
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$190K22 Jan 2016
Hotspur Capital
Northstar Ventures
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$84K23 Dec 2015
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$479K13 Nov 2015
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$653K17 Jul 2015
Hotspur Capital
Northstar Ventures
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$548K23 Dec 2014
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 United Kingdom, England

MathChat

EdTech
Education
$37K14 Dec 2014
IP Group Plc
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 California, United States

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$308K21 Jul 2014
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 England
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Total investments 62
Average round size 539K
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$1M27 Sep 2016
Northstar Ventures
Max Capital
Hotspur Capital
Angel CoFund
 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$411K11 May 2016
Hotspur Capital
Northstar Ventures
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$190K22 Jan 2016
Hotspur Capital
Northstar Ventures
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$84K23 Dec 2015
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$479K13 Nov 2015
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$653K17 Jul 2015
Hotspur Capital
Northstar Ventures
 United Kingdom, England

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$548K23 Dec 2014
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 United Kingdom, England

MathChat

EdTech
Education
$37K14 Dec 2014
IP Group Plc
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 California, United States

Screach

Advertising
Consumer Electronics
Digital Signage
Location Based Services
Mobile
Music
Social Media
Software
$308K21 Jul 2014
Northstar Ventures
Hotspur Capital
 England
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