Excalibur Fund Managers

Total investments

25

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.00

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

11

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyBeautyCosmeticsHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsLaser

Summary

Excalibur Fund Managers appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, Medical. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline BioVex, Neurotech, Ardana Bioscience

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Excalibur Fund Managers, startups are often financed by Techno Venture Management, Scottish Equity Partners, Avlar BioVentures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 3i Group, Avlar BioVentures, Alice Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Equity Partners, GeneChem Inc., Avlar BioVentures.

The real fund results show that this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2003. Comparing to the other companies, this Excalibur Fund Managers performs on 15 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2005.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
9
Exits
11
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (22)
  • Health Care (11)
  • Pharmaceutical (11)
  • Medical (9)
  • Therapeutics (7)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (19)
  • United States (5)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2003
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
154M
Group Appearance index
0.72
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
10.28
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arakis Limited 26 Apr 2002 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 21M England, London, United Kingdom
Neurotech 16 Nov 2006 Biotechnology, Medical, Therapeutics Early Stage Venture 35M United States, Rhode Island

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