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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$889K
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 1.47
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Health Care
Summary

ESA Business Applications appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2008. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Oxford. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the ESA Business Applications, startups are often financed by Wilco, Velcourt, Valencia Institute of Finance. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Valencia Institute of Finance, Seedrs, Scottish Enterprise. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Investment Bank, Satellite Applications Catapult, SALIC.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bird.i, QuantCube Technology, Hummingbird Technologies. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence. 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spacenus

Agriculture
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
$2M30 Oct 2018 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Hummingbird Technologies

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
$4M05 Mar 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Wegaw

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Satellite Communication
$448K01 Oct 2017 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

PLD Space

Aerospace
National Security
$9M01 Jan 2016 Elx / Elche, Valencian Community, Spain

Obuu

Aerospace
Automotive
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
31 Dec 2015 Occitania

Thalman Health

Health Care
Life Science
Personal Health
Sensor
$650K07 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 22
Average round size 889K
Rounds per year 1.47
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spacenus

Agriculture
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
$2M30 Oct 2018 Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Hummingbird Technologies

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
SaaS
$4M05 Mar 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Wegaw

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Satellite Communication
$448K01 Oct 2017 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

PLD Space

Aerospace
National Security
$9M01 Jan 2016 Elx / Elche, Valencian Community, Spain

Obuu

Aerospace
Automotive
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
31 Dec 2015 Occitania

Thalman Health

Health Care
Life Science
Personal Health
Sensor
$650K07 Jun 2015 San Francisco, California, United States
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