Foresight Williams

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

25

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

2.27

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.24

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
TransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingMedical DeviceHardwareSemiconductor3D PrintingIndustrial ManufacturingMachinery Manufacturing

Summary

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Foresight Williams, startups are often financed by Midven, Wren Capital, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Downing Ventures, Wren Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Open Bionics, Oxford Space Systems Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Satellite Communication, Aerospace. The fund has no 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.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
ManufacturingHardware
Stage focus
Series BSeries A
Geo focus
United Kingdom
Check size
663K — 4M

Preferences and restrictions

Doesn’t invest in
United Kingdom

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
7
Rounds per year
2.27
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • 3D Printing (4)
  • Machinery Manufacturing (4)
  • Semiconductor (4)
  • Industrial Manufacturing (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (22)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
540K
Group Appearance index
0.96

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cambridge GaN Devices 18 Feb 2021 Semiconductor Early Stage Venture 9M Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ethernity 18 Feb 2021 Internet, Marketplace Seed
Living Optics 29 Sep 2022 Early Stage Venture 27M
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