3i Group
Private equity
Active
London, United Kingdom
480
27M
335
6.08
100
0.30
181
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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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 54M — 429M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- EUR 2500000000
Analytics
- Total investments
- 480
- Lead investments
- 100
- Exits
- 181
- Rounds per year
- 6.08
- Follow on index
- 0.30
- Investments by industry
- Software (117)
- Manufacturing (75)
- Biotechnology (59)
- Information Technology (53)
- Health Care (52) Show 264 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (202)
- United Kingdom (121)
- France (35)
- Germany (38)
- Netherlands (2) Show 20 more
- Peak activity year
- 2004
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 27
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 148M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.70
- Avg. company exit year
- 17
- Avg. multiplicator
- 5.33
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Santhera Pharmaceuticals | 20 Dec 2005 | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | Early Stage Venture | 18M | Switzerland, Basel-Country |
Zygon | 29 Aug 1999 | Early Stage Venture | 6M | England, London, United Kingdom |
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