Equity Gap

Type

Angel Group/Syndicate

Status

Active

Location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Total investments

102

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

43

Rounds per year

7.29

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.58

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareMobileSaaSEnterprise SoftwareRestaurantsManufacturingCyber SecurityHospitalityIdentity Management

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United Kingdom
Check size
126K — 632K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
102
Lead investments
25
Rounds per year
7.29
Follow on index
0.58
Investments by industry
  • SaaS (25)
  • Software (21)
  • Cyber Security (16)
  • E-Commerce (14)
  • Mobile (12)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (102)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.85

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
MiAlgae 17 Aug 2022 Biotechnology, Enterprise, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Product Research, Prediction Markets Early Stage Venture 3M Scotland, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Vector Photonics 07 Jun 2024 Semiconductor Seed 2M Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

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