Business Growth Fund
445
8M
367
34.23
222
0.17
50
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Business Growth Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.
The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Business Growth Fund works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 61 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Business Growth Fund is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year.
We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Business Growth Fund, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Playfair Capital, Octopus Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Barclays PLC, LocalGlobe, Kindred Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upscale, Future Fifty, MMC Ventures.
The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Workshare, Gymbox, Pharmacy2U Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 most popular fund investment industries, there are Manufacturing, Information Technology.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 445
- Lead investments
- 222
- Exits
- 50
- Rounds per year
- 34.23
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (58)
- Software (56)
- Manufacturing (53)
- Health Care (49)
- E-Commerce (32) Show 298 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (404)
- Ireland (12)
- United States (10)
- Canada (5)
- Germany (2) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 21
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 11M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.26
- Avg. company exit year
- 22
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.84
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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