Actis

Total investments

81

Average round size

46M

Portfolio companies

76

Rounds per year

4.26

Lead investments

50

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

25

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyFinanceFood and BeverageHealth CareEducationManufacturingEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

In 2004 was created Actis, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. When the investment is from Actis the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this Actis performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Besides them, we counted 65 critical employees of this fund in our database.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Food and Beverage, Energy. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline National Stock Exchange, Pine Labs, Chayora Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India. 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.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Actis, startups are often financed by Cisco, TLcom Capital Partners, Standard Chartered Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Carlyle Group, Sequoia Capital, Prax Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, GTI Capital Group.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
81
Lead investments
50
Exits
25
Rounds per year
4.26
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (18)
  • Financial Services (10)
  • Energy (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Education (7)
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Investments by region
  • India (19)
  • United States (6)
  • China (11)
  • South Africa (8)
  • Brazil (5)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
105M
Group Appearance index
0.19
Avg. company exit year
16
Avg. multiplicator
0.13
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
EIC Education 01 Jan 2011 Education Early Stage Venture 50M China, Hong Kong, Kowloon

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