Barclays
131
123M
108
0.39
14
0.18
28
- Areas of investment
Summary
Barclays PLC is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1690. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Barclays PLC, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, DN Capital, Piton Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars, Business Growth Fund, The Royal Bank of Scotland. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank Investment Advisers, Future Fifty, Business Growth Fund.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Auto1 Group, The Hut Group. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Finance, Software.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Barclays PLC the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Barclays PLC works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.
The overall number of key employees were 24.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 131
- Lead investments
- 14
- Exits
- 28
- Rounds per year
- 0.39
- Follow on index
- 0.18
- Investments by industry
- Financial Services (38)
- FinTech (34)
- Software (29)
- Finance (19)
- Information Technology (18) Show 158 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (67)
- United States (43)
- China (1)
- Ireland (3)
- Guernsey (1) Show 10 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 9
- Number of Decacorns
- 11
- Number of Minotaurs
- 9
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 20
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.84
- Avg. company exit year
- 39
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.62
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coffee Masters UK | 10 Mar 2022 | Food and Beverage, Coffee | Seed | 700K | England, Wychavon, United Kingdom |
| Gatsby | 23 Apr 2020 | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Trading Platform | Seed | United States, New York, New York |
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