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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 0.57
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Universities
  • Manufacturing
  • Biotechnology
  • Industrial Engineering
Summary

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1994. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Swindon. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dyesol, Synthetic Biologics. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Environmental Consulting. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Australia.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, startups are often financed by Upscale, Scottish Enterprise, Randal J. Kirk. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK Research and Innovation, STFC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MSD Partners.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

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Total investments 17
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 0.57
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.41
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