Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London

Total investments

129

Average round size

177K

Portfolio companies

106

Rounds per year

14.33

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.18

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFinanceArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSInsurance

Summary

Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Banking. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Chainalysis, Novicap, Jamii Africa. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The typical startup value when the investment from Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London is 5-10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London, startups are often financed by Level39, FinTech Sandbox, Startup Funding Club. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Right Side Capital Management, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Chris Adelsbach. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Plug and Play.

This organization was formed by Chris Adelsbach, Greg Rogers, Jenny Fielding, Kester Keating, Liron Rose, Yossi Hasson.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
129
Lead investments
13
Exits
4
Rounds per year
14.33
Follow on index
0.18
Investments by industry
  • FinTech (64)
  • Financial Services (49)
  • Information Technology (33)
  • Software (32)
  • Artificial Intelligence (27)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (59)
  • United States (34)
  • South Africa (7)
  • Estonia (2)
  • Ireland (7)
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Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
972K
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DigiSEq 25 Jan 2016 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Seed 205K England, London, United Kingdom
Mark Labs 25 Jan 2016 Software, FinTech, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability Seed 120K United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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