Capability and Innovation Fund

Total investments

23

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

11.50

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

1

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceSmall and Medium BusinessesMobile PaymentsBankingLending

Summary

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as FinTech, Financial Services. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ClearBank, Currencycloud, Codat.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2002. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Capability and Innovation Fund performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Capability and Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by NIBC Bank N.V., Octopus Ventures, Harald McPike. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Royal Bank of Scotland. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MerianChrysalis, Future Fifty.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
18
Exits
1
Rounds per year
11.50
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (19)
  • FinTech (17)
  • Banking (8)
  • Finance (7)
  • Software (7)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (22)
  • South Africa (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
107M
Avg. company exit year
28
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
03 Aug 2007 Private Equity 0

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