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Act Venture Capital

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Total investments 172
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 108
Rounds per year 5.73
Lead investments 57
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 49
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Internet
Summary

Act Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dublin. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Act Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Wayra, NDRC, Apax Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TTP Ventures, Intel Capital, Episode 1. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TTP Ventures, Greylock Partners, Atlantic Bridge.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

The typical startup value when the investment from Act Venture Capital is 1-5 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 38 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Act Venture Capital performs on 12 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Medical. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Ireland. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Intense, Arralis, Swrve.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trustap

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Payments
Security
Transaction Processing
$6M09 Jul 2024 Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Spectrum Life

$20M27 May 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Mavarick AI

$1M07 May 2024 Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

GridBeyond

Business Intelligence
Energy
Energy Management
Software
Wireless
$61M16 Apr 2024 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

GREYSCOUT

Information Technology
Internet
Network Security
$4M09 Nov 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Spotted Zebra

Human Resources
$10M31 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Micron AgriTech

AgTech
Health Care
Test and Measurement
Veterinary
$3M18 Sep 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

EdgeTier

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$7M12 Jun 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Oblivious

Privacy
Security
Software
$6M17 Apr 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Total investments 172
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 5.73
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 57
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 49
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Trustap

FinTech
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
Payments
Security
Transaction Processing
$6M09 Jul 2024 Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Spectrum Life

$20M27 May 2024 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Mavarick AI

$1M07 May 2024 Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

GridBeyond

Business Intelligence
Energy
Energy Management
Software
Wireless
$61M16 Apr 2024 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

GREYSCOUT

Information Technology
Internet
Network Security
$4M09 Nov 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Spotted Zebra

Human Resources
$10M31 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Micron AgriTech

AgTech
Health Care
Test and Measurement
Veterinary
$3M18 Sep 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

EdgeTier

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$7M12 Jun 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Oblivious

Privacy
Security
Software
$6M17 Apr 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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