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Barclays PLC

Founders John Freame

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Total investments 132
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$122M
Portfolio companies 107
Rounds per year 0.40
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 28
Key employees 23

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WealthOS

Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
Wealth Management
$3M04 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

WealthOS

Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
Wealth Management
$2M21 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Acin

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$24M15 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Revelio Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$15M06 Oct 2022 New York, New York, United States

Elwood Technologies

Cryptocurrency
Finance
FinTech
Trading Platform
$70M16 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

MQube

Artificial Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
Machine Learning
$12M04 May 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Sunswap

Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
Travel
$5M28 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Coffee Masters UK

Coffee
Food and Beverage
$700K10 Mar 2022 Wychavon, England, United Kingdom

Responsible

E-Commerce
Fashion
$6M10 Jan 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
News
Amount raises $99M at a $1B+ valuation to help banks better compete with fintechs

– Amount, a company that provides technology to banks and financial institutions, has raised $99m in a Series D funding round at a valuation of just over $1b.
WestCap, a growth equity firm founded by ex-Airbnb and Blackstone CFO Laurence Tosi, led the round. Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities and Barclays Principal Investments also participated.
– The investment comes just over five months after Amount raised $86m in a Series C round at a valuation of $686m. (The original raise was $81m, but Barclays Principal Investments invested $5m as part of a second close of the Series C round). And that round came just three months after the Chicago-based startup quietly raised $58m in a Series B round in March.

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Total investments 132
Average round size 122M
Rounds per year 0.40
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

WealthOS

Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
Wealth Management
$3M04 Jun 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

WealthOS

Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
Wealth Management
$2M21 Nov 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Acin

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Services
Information Technology
$24M15 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Revelio Labs

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$15M06 Oct 2022 New York, New York, United States

Elwood Technologies

Cryptocurrency
Finance
FinTech
Trading Platform
$70M16 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

MQube

Artificial Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
Machine Learning
$12M04 May 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Sunswap

Autonomous Vehicles
Transportation
Travel
$5M28 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Coffee Masters UK

Coffee
Food and Beverage
$700K10 Mar 2022 Wychavon, England, United Kingdom

Responsible

E-Commerce
Fashion
$6M10 Jan 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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