Global Innovation Fund

Type

Non-Profit

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

29

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

3.22

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyInformation ServicesHealth CareEducationNon ProfitWaste ManagementEnvironmental EngineeringRecycling

Summary

Global Innovation Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ideas42, Simprints, WhereIsMyTransport. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Services, Mobile. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The overall number of key employees were 12.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Global Innovation Fund performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 61 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. 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 Global Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Omidyar Network, MacArthur Foundation, Goodwell Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Goodwell Investments, Endeavor Catalyst, Warburg Pincus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by United States Agency for International Development, Spring Accelerator, Clean Energy Ventures (CEV).

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
17
Exits
2
Rounds per year
3.22
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Software (5)
  • Health Care (5)
  • Education (5)
  • Information Services (4)
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Investments by region
  • Indonesia (1)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • France (3)
  • India (2)
  • Singapore (1)
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Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7M
Group Appearance index
0.45
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CityTaps 06 Dec 2018 Software, FinTech, Mobile, Telecommunications, Water Seed 1M Ile-de-France, France, France
Sympla 28 Jun 2016 Internet, Mobile, Event Management, Ticketing Early Stage Venture 4M Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
WhereIsMyTransport 28 Feb 2020 Software, Information Technology, Information Services Early Stage Venture 7M England, London, United Kingdom
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