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Barclays Ventures

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 4.20
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

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

Barclays Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. Barclays Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Evernym, Raidtec Corporation, EVIIVO The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Apps.

Opposing the other organizations, this Barclays Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Barclays Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, Sway Ventures, Magma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Travelers Insurance, Techstars Ventures, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zedify

Logistics
$6M17 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Airex

CleanTech
Cloud Infrastructure
Consumer
Consumer Goods
Energy Efficiency
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Home Improvement
Marketplace
Sensor
$3M12 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

MOF Technologies

Chemical Engineering
Clean Energy
Nanotechnology
Natural Resources
Product Research
Small and Medium Businesses
$6M12 Oct 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Copper

Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
24 Jul 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Naked Energy

Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
Solar
13 Jul 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Fintech for International Development

FinTech
Humanitarian
$3M01 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$5M26 Feb 2021 Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Kriptos

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
26 Nov 2019 California, United States

SafeHouse

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Security
$2M05 Nov 2019 Tel Aviv District
News
Martech company Zeta Global raises $222.5M in debt

– Zeta Global, a marketing technology company, raised $222.5m in debt financing.
– The round was led by BofA Securities and joined by Barclays, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding.
– The company emphasized its data-driven approach to marketing.
– It has gone down the debt route before — a Series F raised in 2017 combined $115m funding with $25m in debt.
– The company plans to use the debt financing for acquisitions.

First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America

– First Boulevard, a digital bank for the Black community, raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Barclays, Anthemis and a group of angel investors such as actress Gabrielle Union, Union Square Ventures’ John Buttrick and AutoZone CFO Jamere Jackson.
– The startup plans to use the money to expand its team, increase its customer base and grow its platform to offer fee-free debit cards, financial education and on developing technology to help members automate their saving and wealth-building goals.
– History has proven that oppressed communities can succeed when their finances are centralized, and when it comes to financial services for the Black community, a centralizing force is long overdue.
– The startup has 100,000 people on its waitlist currently with an expected launch in the third quarter.

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Total investments 21
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 4.20
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Zedify

Logistics
$6M17 Mar 2023 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Airex

CleanTech
Cloud Infrastructure
Consumer
Consumer Goods
Energy Efficiency
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Home Improvement
Marketplace
Sensor
$3M12 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

MOF Technologies

Chemical Engineering
Clean Energy
Nanotechnology
Natural Resources
Product Research
Small and Medium Businesses
$6M12 Oct 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Copper

Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
24 Jul 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Naked Energy

Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
Solar
13 Jul 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Fintech for International Development

FinTech
Humanitarian
$3M01 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$5M26 Feb 2021 Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Kriptos

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
26 Nov 2019 California, United States

SafeHouse

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Security
$2M05 Nov 2019 Tel Aviv District
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