Bestport Ventures

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

15

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.79

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

5

Areas of investment
PublishingMarketplaceChildrenSocial MediaAdvertisingTravelTourismChild CareTravel AgencyYoung Adults

Summary

Bestport Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

This organization was formed by James Stoddart, Ole Bettum. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Bestport Ventures, startups are often financed by London Co-Investment Fund, Nexus Investment Ventures, Forward Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are London Co-Investment Fund, Wild Blue Cohort, Robin Skinmore. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Robin Skinmore, Robin Batchelor, London Co-Investment Fund.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 57 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Bestport Ventures performs on 27 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2016. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2013.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mfuse, Intela, Snaptrip.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseEdtechHealthcareEcommerce Show 2 more
Geo focus
United Kingdom
Check size
Up to 13M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
5
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.79
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Children (4)
  • Child Care (4)
  • Young Adults (2)
  • Advertising (2)
  • Tourism (2)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (14)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
8M
Group Appearance index
0.40
Avg. company exit year
25
Avg. multiplicator
3.49

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lewmar Ltd. 01 Apr 2014 Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing, Marine Transportation Seed England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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