Barclays UK Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

21

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

4.20

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityEnergyFinancial Exchanges

Summary

Barclays Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. Barclays Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Evernym, Raidtec Corporation, EVIIVO The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Apps.

Opposing the other organizations, this Barclays Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Barclays Ventures, startups are often financed by Techstars, Sway Ventures, Magma Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Travelers Insurance, Techstars Ventures, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars - London.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Fintech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
6
Exits
1
Rounds per year
4.20
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (7)
  • FinTech (6)
  • Finance (4)
  • Software (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (15)
  • United States (5)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.71
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.90

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