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ADV

Founders David Carr David Fogel Keith Teare Lee Strafford Michael Dimelow

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 4.18
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 1
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Marketplace
  • EdTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Onto

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
GreenTech
Leasing
Subscription Service
Technical Support
Transportation
$60M26 Jul 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

VertoFX

Finance
FinTech
Marketplace
Payments
Small and Medium Businesses
$10M30 Sep 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Guardian Angel

Communities
$1M07 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Nodes & Links

Association
Information Technology
Project Management
Software
$10M01 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Push Doctor

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
mHealth
$18M26 Oct 2020 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

B-Secur

Biometrics
Health Care
Security
$2M15 Sep 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Lingumi

Apps
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$5M13 Mar 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Rebank

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$2M17 Dec 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Perlego

EBooks
EdTech
Education
Publishing
Subscription Service
$9M19 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 46
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 4.18
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Onto

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
GreenTech
Leasing
Subscription Service
Technical Support
Transportation
$60M26 Jul 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

VertoFX

Finance
FinTech
Marketplace
Payments
Small and Medium Businesses
$10M30 Sep 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

Guardian Angel

Communities
$1M07 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Nodes & Links

Association
Information Technology
Project Management
Software
$10M01 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Push Doctor

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
mHealth
$18M26 Oct 2020 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

B-Secur

Biometrics
Health Care
Security
$2M15 Sep 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Lingumi

Apps
E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$5M13 Mar 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Rebank

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$2M17 Dec 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Perlego

EBooks
EdTech
Education
Publishing
Subscription Service
$9M19 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
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