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Digital Science

Founders Timo Hannay

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$704K
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.83
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.05
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Life Science
  • Publishing
Summary

In 2010 was created Digital Science, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the London.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Education. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nutonian, TetraScience, Strateos The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Digital Science, startups are often financed by Silicon Valley Bank, ff Venture Capital, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Holtzbrinck Digital, ZhenFund, WuXi AppTec. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founder Collective, First Round Capital, FLOODGATE.

The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Digital Science works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OntoChem

Data Mining
Internet
Software
29 Sep 2021 Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

CC Technology

Information Technology
Software
22 Jan 2019 United Kingdom, Glasgow

Consumer Software
Software
25 Jul 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Overleaf

Education
Publishing
23 Jul 2014 England

UberResearch

Finance
Information Technology
Software
11 Nov 2013 North Rhine-Westphalia

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Total investments 22
Average round size 704K
Rounds per year 1.83
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.05
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.36

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OntoChem

Data Mining
Internet
Software
29 Sep 2021 Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

CC Technology

Information Technology
Software
22 Jan 2019 United Kingdom, Glasgow

Consumer Software
Software
25 Jul 2018 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Overleaf

Education
Publishing
23 Jul 2014 England

UberResearch

Finance
Information Technology
Software
11 Nov 2013 North Rhine-Westphalia
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