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Ballpark Ventures

Founders Eric Newnham

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$985K
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 1.92
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 3
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Advertising
  • Advertising Platforms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mobile
  • Mobile Advertising
Summary

In 2010 was created Ballpark Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cheltenham.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Ballpark Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, Seedrs, Right Side Capital Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Passion Capital, Seedrs, Seedcamp. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OpenOcean, Stonebridge Capital, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Ballpark Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The average startup value when the investment from Ballpark Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight tray.io, Mitoo Sports, We Are Pop Up. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Android, Apps.

The current fund was established by Eric Newnham. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adludio

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Mobile Advertising
$1M07 Sep 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Pronto Technology

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
$1M03 Jun 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Silverback.ai

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Reputation
$1M19 Jan 2016 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

UNMADE

3D Printing
Fashion
$2M18 Jun 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Tapdaq

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
App Marketing
Marketing
$1M03 Sep 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Adludio

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Mobile Advertising
$685K04 Jul 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Appear Here

Commercial Real Estate
Marketplace
Real Estate
Retail
$1M22 Nov 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

BrightMove Media

Advertising
Media and Entertainment
$931K24 Sep 2013 United Kingdom, England

We Are Pop Up

Art
Commercial Real Estate
Fashion
Retail
$1M01 May 2013 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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Total investments 23
Average round size 985K
Rounds per year 1.92
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adludio

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Mobile Advertising
$1M07 Sep 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Pronto Technology

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Food Processing
$1M03 Jun 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Silverback.ai

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Reputation
$1M19 Jan 2016 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

UNMADE

3D Printing
Fashion
$2M18 Jun 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Tapdaq

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
App Marketing
Marketing
$1M03 Sep 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Adludio

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Mobile Advertising
$685K04 Jul 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Appear Here

Commercial Real Estate
Marketplace
Real Estate
Retail
$1M22 Nov 2013 London, England, United Kingdom

BrightMove Media

Advertising
Media and Entertainment
$931K24 Sep 2013 United Kingdom, England

We Are Pop Up

Art
Commercial Real Estate
Fashion
Retail
$1M01 May 2013 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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