Total investments

46

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

4.18

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyMachine LearningHealth CareWellnessEdTechEducationMarketplace

Summary

ADV is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bird.i, Biosignatures, Altitude Angel. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Artificial Intelligence. The fund has exact preference 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The current fund was established by David Carr, Keith Teare, Lee Strafford, Michael Dimelow. Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the ADV, startups are often financed by Innovate UK, Upscale, SBRI Healthcare. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are LocalGlobe, Ignite Accelerator, Entrepreneur First. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upscale, True Ventures, Scottish Enterprise.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from ADV is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
46
Lead investments
13
Exits
1
Rounds per year
4.18
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (12)
  • Software (9)
  • Internet (5)
  • Marketplace (5)
  • EdTech (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (43)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
344M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
B-Secur 15 Sep 2020 Health Care, Security, Biometrics Early Stage Venture 2M Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom
Care Sourcer 24 Jul 2018 Hospital Early Stage Venture 11M Scotland, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Cuil 01 Mar 2007 Internet, Content, Social Media, Search Engine Early Stage Venture 8M United States, California

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