Finance Yorkshire

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Barnsley, United Kingdom

Total investments

28

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

2.00

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyFinanceHealth CareBankingCleanTechWaterWater Purification

Summary

Finance Yorkshire appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Barnsley.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Search Engine, Recycling. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Xeros, Tangentix, Purely Proteins Limited. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Finance Yorkshire, startups are often financed by Nesta Impact Investments, White Rose Technology Seedcorn Fund, IP Group Plc. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IP Group Plc, Parkwalk Advisors, Nesta Impact Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Parkwalk Advisors, Entrepreneurs Fund, Nesta Impact Investments.

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

Opposing the other organizations, this Finance Yorkshire works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
Up to 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
11
Exits
2
Rounds per year
2.00
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Biotechnology (4)
  • Software (4)
  • Finance (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (27)
Peak activity year
2023

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
781K
Group Appearance index
0.61
Avg. company exit year
9

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
02 Sep 2014 Information Technology, Consulting, Innovation Management Seed 342K United Kingdom, Kirklees
The Build Chain 05 Jun 2024 Software, SaaS, Construction Seed 2M Armthorpe, Doncaster, United Kingdom

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