Chimera Partners

Total investments

8

Average round size

94M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.62

Follow on index

0.38

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning3D TechnologyMedical DeviceMedicalHardware3D PrintingData Storage

Summary

Chimera Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Brainomix, Fuel3D. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Hardware. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The real fund results show that this VC is 63 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Chimera Partners, startups are often financed by Parkwalk Advisors, Oxford University Innovation, Hygea VCT. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Parkwalk Advisors, Oxford University Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Parkwalk Advisors, SBRI Healthcare, Oxford University Innovation.

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Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Medical Device (4)
  • Medical (3)
  • Machine Learning (3)
  • Artificial Intelligence (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Canada (1)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
480M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SHOPLAZZA 20 Jan 2022 E-Commerce, Internet, Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Platforms Late Stage Venture 150M Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada

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