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3i Group

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Total investments 480
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 335
Rounds per year 6.08
Lead investments 100
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 181
Key employees 40
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
Summary

3i Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 1945. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from 3i Group the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The high activity for fund was in 2004. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this 3i Group performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the 3i Group, startups are often financed by Venrock, Scottish Equity Partners, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture, Amadeus Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oak Investment Partners, Gimv, Amadeus Capital Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 40.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Medical. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Collins Aerospace, Quintiles, Vonage.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kaptivo

Hardware
Meeting Software
Software
Video Conferencing
$15M19 Jul 2009 California, United States

Finance
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Internet
Personalization
Software
$2M23 Apr 2009 London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

BuyVIP

E-Commerce
Marketing
Shopping
$17M03 Apr 2009 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Taptu

Mobile Devices
News
Social
$8M18 Dec 2008 Denver, Colorado, United States

Nujira

Hardware
Infrastructure
Telecommunications
$18M15 Sep 2008 England

Carbonite

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Web Hosting
$20M08 Sep 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Consulting
Energy
Industrial
Waste Management
$64M04 Jun 2008 England

Sotera Wireless

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$20M31 Mar 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Carbonite

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Web Hosting
$5M14 Feb 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 480
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 6.08
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 100
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 181
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kaptivo

Hardware
Meeting Software
Software
Video Conferencing
$15M19 Jul 2009 California, United States

Finance
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Internet
Personalization
Software
$2M23 Apr 2009 London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

BuyVIP

E-Commerce
Marketing
Shopping
$17M03 Apr 2009 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Taptu

Mobile Devices
News
Social
$8M18 Dec 2008 Denver, Colorado, United States

Nujira

Hardware
Infrastructure
Telecommunications
$18M15 Sep 2008 England

Carbonite

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Web Hosting
$20M08 Sep 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Consulting
Energy
Industrial
Waste Management
$64M04 Jun 2008 England

Sotera Wireless

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$20M31 Mar 2008 San Diego, California, United States

Carbonite

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Web Hosting
$5M14 Feb 2008 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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