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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.84
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Non Profit
  • Communities
  • Charity
  • Service Industry
  • Transportation
Summary

In 2005 was created Big Issue Invest, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. Big Issue Invest appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2009.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Call Britannia We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Outsourcing, Communities.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Big Issue Invest, startups are often financed by Social Tech Trust, Bridges Fund Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The FSE Group, Triodos Investment Management, Karen Darby. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TriplePoint Capital, New Capital Partners, HSBC.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VU X Earth

Art
31 Jan 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Call Britannia

Call Center
Consulting
Outsourcing
$2M10 Nov 2009 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 16
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 0.84
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.06
Group Appearance index 0.25

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VU X Earth

Art
31 Jan 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Call Britannia

Call Center
Consulting
Outsourcing
$2M10 Nov 2009 United Kingdom, England
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