Founders Factory
Accelerator/Incubator
Active
London, United Kingdom
139
1M
124
15.44
39
0.10
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2015 was created Founders Factory, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Founders Factory, startups are often financed by SEED Capital, Microsoft Accelerator London, Eleven. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Serge Chiaramonte, Force Over Mass Capital, Firstminute Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ascension Ventures Limited, Startup Funding Club, Serge Chiaramonte.
The current fund was established by Brent Hoberman, George Northcott, Henry Lane Fox, Jim Meyerle.
The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Preemadonna, Entale Media, A Million Ads. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.
The typical startup value when the investment from Founders Factory is 1-5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Founders Factory works on 28 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 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 139
- Lead investments
- 39
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 15.44
- Follow on index
- 0.10
- Investments by industry
- Software (24)
- Artificial Intelligence (20)
- Information Technology (18)
- Travel (17)
- Internet (15) Show 189 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (84)
- Bulgaria (3)
- United States (12)
- Spain (2)
- Germany (6) Show 14 more
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 5
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 5M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.53
- Avg. company exit year
- 3
- Avg. multiplicator
- 4.93
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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DRONAMICS | 17 Feb 2023 | Logistics, Aerospace, Drones, Shipping | Seed | 40M | Sofia-City, Sofia, Bulgaria |
Unfabled | 06 Feb 2024 | Seed | 1M |
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