Foresight Group
Private equity
Active
London, United Kingdom
189
6M
165
4.72
70
0.13
16
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 202 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (165)
- China (1)
- United States (9)
- Germany (3)
- Jersey (2) Show 4 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- 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
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