BT Group

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

12

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.23

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

7

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileManufacturingCyber SecurityNetwork SecurityMusicTelecommunicationsWirelessMusical Instruments

Summary

BT appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1846. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BT, startups are often financed by Texas Instruments, Sony, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are J & W Seligman, IBM, Texas Instruments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qualcomm Ventures, DFJ, BlueRun Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Service Industry, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Blackstar Amplification, WTS Positioning Solutions, DecisionPoint Applications. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this BT works on 46 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
3
Exits
7
Rounds per year
0.23
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Internet (4)
  • Telecommunications (2)
  • Software (2)
  • Mobile (2)
  • Wireless (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Spain (1)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
26M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.96

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Safe Security 21 Jul 2021 Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Network Security Early Stage Venture 33M United States, California, Palo Alto
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