Bank of Ireland

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Dublin, Ireland

Total investments

16

Average round size

107M

Portfolio companies

16

Rounds per year

0.07

Lead investments

5

Exits

6

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyFood ProcessingHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingSecurityMedicalEnergyRenewable Energy

Summary

Bank of Ireland appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1783. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Dublin. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Bank of Ireland, startups are often financed by Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Enterprise Ireland, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Kernel Capital, Ulster Bank Ireland. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund, Development Capital.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical, Security. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Ireland. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cignal.ie, EpiSensor, Oncomark

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Bank of Ireland works on 1 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
5
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Medical (2)
  • Security (2)
  • Software (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
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Investments by region
  • Ireland (9)
  • United States (2)
  • Spain (1)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Luxembourg (1)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
12M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
44
Avg. multiplicator
0.43
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Onformonics 01 Nov 2009 Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security Seed 708K Canton Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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