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Equity Gap

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Total investments 105
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 7.50
Lead investments 25
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.58
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Cyber Security
  • E-Commerce
  • Manufacturing
Summary

In 2010 was created Equity Gap, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Edinburgh.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Hospitality. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Boundary, EnteroBiotix, My1Login. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Equity Gap, startups are often financed by Par Equity, Old College Capital, Highland Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Par Equity, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Par Equity, Old College Capital, Angels Den.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MiAlgae

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Enterprise
Manufacturing
Prediction Markets
Product Research
$19M18 Sep 2024 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Shot Scope

Customer Service
Golf
Sports
Wearables
Web Development
$9M31 Jul 2024 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mirna

Pet
Veterinary
$4M02 Jul 2024 West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Vector Photonics

Semiconductor
$2M07 Jun 2024 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

SMASH

$506K25 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

QuickBlock

Construction
$630K29 Feb 2024 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Trickle

Computer
Software
$1M26 Sep 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Vector Photonics

Semiconductor
$3M27 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

PneumoWave

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
Sensor
Therapeutics
$10M12 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Total investments 105
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 7.50
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 25
Follow on index 0.58
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

MiAlgae

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Enterprise
Manufacturing
Prediction Markets
Product Research
$19M18 Sep 2024 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Shot Scope

Customer Service
Golf
Sports
Wearables
Web Development
$9M31 Jul 2024 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mirna

Pet
Veterinary
$4M02 Jul 2024 West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Vector Photonics

Semiconductor
$2M07 Jun 2024 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

SMASH

$506K25 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

QuickBlock

Construction
$630K29 Feb 2024 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Trickle

Computer
Software
$1M26 Sep 2023 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Vector Photonics

Semiconductor
$3M27 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

PneumoWave

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Home Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
Sensor
Therapeutics
$10M12 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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