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Bestport Ventures

Founders James Stoddart Ole Bettum

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.84
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 5
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Child Care
  • Children
  • Advertising
  • Tourism
  • Marketplace
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Snaptrip

Marketplace
Tourism
Travel
Travel Agency
$2M10 Jan 2018 England

Snaptrip

Marketplace
Tourism
Travel
Travel Agency
$2M17 Dec 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Great British Chefs

Advertising
News
Publishing
Social Media
$2M01 Mar 2015 United Kingdom, England

Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Marine Transportation
01 Apr 2014 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 16
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.84
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.38

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Snaptrip

Marketplace
Tourism
Travel
Travel Agency
$2M10 Jan 2018 England

Snaptrip

Marketplace
Tourism
Travel
Travel Agency
$2M17 Dec 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Great British Chefs

Advertising
News
Publishing
Social Media
$2M01 Mar 2015 United Kingdom, England

Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Marine Transportation
01 Apr 2014 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom
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