Fusion IP

Total investments

23

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

1.05

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

4

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsEdTechEducationMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceuticalTelecommunications

Summary

Fusion IP appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2002. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Sheffield. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Fusion IP, startups are often financed by Development Bank of Wales, The ERA Foundation, Viking Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Development Bank of Wales, IP Group Plc, Spirit Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IP Group Plc, Development Bank of Wales, South Yorkshire Investment Fund.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mesuro, Nanotether Discovery Services, Phase Focus. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biopharma, Analytics. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive 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. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Fusion IP performs on 7 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
2
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.05
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (12)
  • Health Care (8)
  • Health Diagnostics (6)
  • Pharmaceutical (5)
  • Education (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (23)
Peak activity year
2012

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Group Appearance index
0.74
Avg. company exit year
9

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Exonate 03 Nov 2013 Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical, Biopharma Seed 548K Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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