Enterprise Ventures

Total investments

55

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

1.96

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

11

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyRecruitingHealth CareTrainingManufacturingMedicalPharmaceuticalElectronics

Summary

Enterprise Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Preston.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Enterprise Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Enterprise Ventures, startups are often financed by The North West Fund, Rising Stars Growth Fund, IP Group Plc. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The North West Fund, South Yorkshire Investment Fund, Acceleris Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Northstar Ventures, Hotspur Capital, Seneca Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 14.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Blue Prism Group, Xeros, Evgen Pharma. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

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Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
10
Exits
11
Rounds per year
1.96
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Manufacturing (7)
  • Pharmaceutical (4)
  • Medical (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (52)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
26M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.32
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Carmudi 17 Feb 2015 Internet, Marketplace, Advertising, Classifieds Early Stage Venture 25M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
LabelSneak 12 Oct 2012 Retail Seed 525K England, Wirral, United Kingdom
Redag Crop Protection 24 Oct 2014 Biotechnology, Chemical, Agriculture, Farming Seed England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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