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GEIF Ventures

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 7
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Internet
  • Health Diagnostics
Summary

GEIF Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The main department of described VC is located in the Cambridge. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight g-Nostics, Spikes Cavell & Co, Moviestorm. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, SaaS. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Comparing to the other companies, this GEIF Ventures performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the GEIF Ventures, startups are often financed by Oxford Capital Partners, IQ Capital, Seraphim Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oxford Capital Partners, IQ Capital, YFM Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IQ Capital, Oxford Capital Partners, Albion Capital Group.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Funderbeam

Big Data
Business Intelligence
Crowdfunding
Market Research
Marketplace
Trading Platform
$2M12 Oct 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

BioBeats

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Health Care
Machine Learning
Wellness
01 Feb 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

The ID Co.

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
$2M30 Apr 2012 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Spikes Cavell & Co

Analytics
Information Services
Software
$2M17 Nov 2009 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Animation
Enterprise Software
Film
Software
$3M01 Oct 2008 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Novacta Biosystems

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$137K31 Mar 2004 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 20
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.85

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Funderbeam

Big Data
Business Intelligence
Crowdfunding
Market Research
Marketplace
Trading Platform
$2M12 Oct 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

BioBeats

Artificial Intelligence
Fitness
Health Care
Machine Learning
Wellness
01 Feb 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

The ID Co.

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Internet
$2M30 Apr 2012 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Spikes Cavell & Co

Analytics
Information Services
Software
$2M17 Nov 2009 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Animation
Enterprise Software
Film
Software
$3M01 Oct 2008 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Novacta Biosystems

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$137K31 Mar 2004 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom
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