Development Capital
Venture Capital
Active
Dublin, United Kingdom
15
6M
14
1.36
3
0.07
4
- Areas of investment
Summary
Development Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dublin. The company was established in Europe in Ireland.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Ireland. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Version 1, Perigord Life Science Artwork Solutions, Lifes2Good Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of more than 20 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Marketing. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Development Capital works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Development Capital, startups are often financed by Bank of Ireland. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Volpi Capital, BMS Finance.
Investor highlights
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- Check size
- 2M — 13M
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 15
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 1.36
- Follow on index
- 0.07
- Investments by industry
- Manufacturing (3)
- Outsourcing (3)
- Telecommunications (3)
- Software (3)
- Health Care (2) Show 37 more
- Investments by region
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- Ireland (13)
- United Kingdom (1)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 20
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.13
- Avg. company exit year
- 25
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KnowHowDo | 01 Sep 2017 | Publishing, E-Learning, EdTech, Media and Entertainment, Digital Media | Seed | 1M | United States, New York, New York |
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