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Bloc Ventures

Founders Bruce Beckloff David Leftley

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 2.20
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet of Things
  • Telecommunications
  • Wireless
  • Smart Home
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AccelerComm

Semiconductor
$29M11 Apr 2023 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Pharrowtech

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$17M12 May 2022 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Helix Technologies

Manufacturing
Wireless
$4M17 Dec 2021 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

ShieldIOT

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
Software
$7M19 Nov 2021 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Mindtrace

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$3M22 Feb 2021 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Paytia

Financial Services
Payments
$1M27 Oct 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

AccelerComm

Semiconductor
$7M21 Sep 2020 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Pharrowtech

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$7M25 Jun 2019 Flemish Brabant

YellowDog

Aerospace
Animation
Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
Life Science
SaaS
Scheduling
Software
$3M27 Mar 2019 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 22
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.20
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.41
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AccelerComm

Semiconductor
$29M11 Apr 2023 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Pharrowtech

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$17M12 May 2022 Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium

Helix Technologies

Manufacturing
Wireless
$4M17 Dec 2021 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

ShieldIOT

Cyber Security
Internet of Things
Software
$7M19 Nov 2021 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Mindtrace

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Software
$3M22 Feb 2021 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Paytia

Financial Services
Payments
$1M27 Oct 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

AccelerComm

Semiconductor
$7M21 Sep 2020 Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Pharrowtech

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$7M25 Jun 2019 Flemish Brabant

YellowDog

Aerospace
Animation
Cloud Computing
Cloud Management
Enterprise Software
Financial Services
Life Science
SaaS
Scheduling
Software
$3M27 Mar 2019 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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