Direct Line Insurance
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10M
5
0.16
2
0.17
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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1985 was created Direct Line Insurance, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bromley.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Direct Line Insurance, startups are often financed by Pelion Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Grandbrook Ltd. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UEC Group, Fosun Group, Experian. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc., University Growth Fund.
The current fund was established by Peter Wood.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 Canopy, PawSquad, The Floow Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Fleet Management.
Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2017.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 0.16
- Follow on index
- 0.17
- Investments by industry
- Automotive (2)
- Information Technology (2)
- Fleet Management (2)
- Insurance (2)
- FinTech (2) Show 9 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (6)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Group Appearance index
- 0.50
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canopy | 08 Oct 2017 | Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance | Seed | 2M | England, London, United Kingdom |
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