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First Derivatives

Founders Brian Conlon

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.22
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
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Areas of investment

  • Supply Chain Management
  • B2B
  • Predictive Analytics
  • FinTech
  • Blockchain
Summary

In 1996 was created First Derivatives, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Newry.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the First Derivatives, startups are often financed by Quivira Capital, Johnson Family Trust, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are WS Investments, Techstars Ventures, Task Force X Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Singapore Exchange Limited, IHS Markit, Digital Currency Group.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Mobile Apps, SaaS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GYANA, Crowdz. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Brian Conlon.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Crowdz

B2B
Blockchain
FinTech
Predictive Analytics
Supply Chain Management
$14M25 Jun 2023 California, United States

Zipabout

Business Intelligence
Transportation
$1M18 Dec 2019 Birmingham

Crowdz

B2B
Blockchain
FinTech
Predictive Analytics
Supply Chain Management
$6M22 May 2019 California, United States

Cobalt

Artificial Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
Payments
Robotics
Security
19 Dec 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 6
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.22
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.33
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Crowdz

B2B
Blockchain
FinTech
Predictive Analytics
Supply Chain Management
$14M25 Jun 2023 California, United States

Zipabout

Business Intelligence
Transportation
$1M18 Dec 2019 Birmingham

Crowdz

B2B
Blockchain
FinTech
Predictive Analytics
Supply Chain Management
$6M22 May 2019 California, United States

Cobalt

Artificial Intelligence
Finance
Financial Services
Payments
Robotics
Security
19 Dec 2016 London, England, United Kingdom
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