Bloc Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

22

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

2.20

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.41

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyNetwork SecurityTelecommunicationsInternet of ThingsSmart BuildingSmart HomeWirelessNetwork HardwareContent Delivery Network

Summary

In 2013 was created Bloc Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 70 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Telecommunications. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zeetta Networks, Crypta Labs, Pharrowtech. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The current fund was established by Bruce Beckloff, David Leftley. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Bloc Ventures, startups are often financed by Atomico, Pitch@Palace, Dawn Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are imec.xpand, Vodafone, Sway Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vodafone, ARM.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep TechCloud/InfrastructureCommunity/Social networkAI/Big DataCybersecurity Show 2 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
1M — 6M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 20000000
Fund raised date
2020-01-28

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
8
Rounds per year
2.20
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Internet of Things (8)
  • Telecommunications (6)
  • Wireless (5)
  • Smart Home (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (19)
  • Belgium (2)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
632K
Group Appearance index
0.50

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Latest deals

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