Clydesdale Bank

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Total investments

39

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

0.21

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

20

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSAppsManufacturingIndustrialOil and Gas

Summary

Clydesdale Bank is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1838. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Glasgow.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Clydesdale Bank, startups are often financed by Scottish Equity Partners, Eden Ventures, Draper Esprit. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Yorkshire Bank, Magnesium Capital, MMC Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Albion Capital Group, PeakSpan Capital, Downing Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Information Technology. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline P2i, Blue Prism Group, Corero Network Security

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Clydesdale Bank works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
39
Lead investments
12
Exits
20
Rounds per year
0.21
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Manufacturing (6)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Health Care (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (33)
  • United States (5)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
49M
Group Appearance index
0.36
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
0.62
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Auga Technologies Limited 01 Mar 2016 Mobile, SaaS, Apps Early Stage Venture 2M United Kingdom, England, East Hampshire
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