GP Bullhound

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

97

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

76

Rounds per year

3.88

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

20

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesMobileAppsMobile AppsSportsSocial MediaAdvertising

Summary

GP Bullhound appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spotify, Klarna, Avito. 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 no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, SaaS.

The typical startup value when the investment from GP Bullhound is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This GP Bullhound works on 2 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund was created by Christian Lagerling, Hugh Campbell, Manish Madhvani, Per Roman. Besides them, we counted 14 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the GP Bullhound, startups are often financed by Northzone, Bonsai Venture Capital SCR, e.ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Creandum, Edastra Venture Capital, FJ Labs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Northzone, Accel, ePlanet Capital.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAI/Big Data
Stage focus
Series CSeries DSeries FSeries E
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 300000000
Fund raised date
2021-10-01

Analytics

Total investments
97
Lead investments
11
Exits
20
Rounds per year
3.88
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (23)
  • E-Commerce (19)
  • Internet (14)
  • Social Media (9)
  • Mobile (9)
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Investments by region
  • Spain (19)
  • United Kingdom (28)
  • United States (9)
  • Sweden (30)
  • France (3)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
8

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
683M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.92
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lingokids 15 Jun 2021 Training, Education, Children, Digital Media, Parenting, Language Learning, Family Late Stage Venture 40M Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Sesame HR 08 May 2024 Human Resources Early Stage Venture 27M Valencian Community, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

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