Downing Ventures

Summary

In 2014 was created Downing Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Analytics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SpotQA, The Electrospinning Company, Xupes.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Downing Ventures, startups are often financed by Playfair Capital, Octopus Ventures, Index Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Forward Partners, Business Growth Fund, Maven Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by London Co-Investment Fund, Upscale, Pitch@Palace.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Downing Ventures works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

The overall number of key employees were 2.