Foresight Group

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

189

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

165

Rounds per year

4.72

Lead investments

70

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

16

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturing

Summary

In 1984 was created Foresight Group, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Foresight Group performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Foresight Group is 1-5 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 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 popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Advertising. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Wecash, Reward Finance Group, ClubSpark The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Foresight Group, startups are often financed by Oxford Capital Partners, Midven, SyndicateRoom. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oxford Capital Partners, Gartmore Investment Management, Richard Farleigh. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Capital Partners, Richard Farleigh, Midven.

The current fund was established by Bernard Fairman, Peter English. We also calculated 31 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techHealthcareCommunity/Social network
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United Kingdom
Check size
627K — 6M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
189
Lead investments
70
Exits
16
Rounds per year
4.72
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (38)
  • Manufacturing (24)
  • Health Care (22)
  • Information Technology (22)
  • Retail (14)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (165)
  • China (1)
  • United States (9)
  • Germany (3)
  • Jersey (2)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.32
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
1.77

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BlueSkeye AI 21 Oct 2022 Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Health Diagnostics Seed 4M Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Inovo Robotics 08 Nov 2018 Robotics Seed 2M England, London, United Kingdom

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