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Grafton Capital

Founders Edward Barroll Brown Oliver Thomas

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 1.71
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 1
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Banking
  • Analytics
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Grafton Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. 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 standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Grafton Capital, startups are often financed by William Reeve, Draper Esprit, Alexander Edward Chesterman. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scottish Equity Partners, Nordic Capital, Highland Europe. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Future Fifty.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline alva, Third Financial, Softomotive The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are CRM, Analytics.

Opposing the other organizations, this Grafton Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 69 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by Edward Barroll Brown, Oliver Thomas. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Softomotive

Business Information Systems
Industrial Automation
Office Administration
Robotics
Software
$25M28 Sep 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

MPP Global

Billing
CRM
E-Commerce
Identity Management
Internet
Publishing
SaaS
Subscription Service
Video
$16M04 May 2017 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

SportPursuit

E-Commerce
Retail
Sports
$13M22 Nov 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 12
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 1.71
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.25

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Softomotive

Business Information Systems
Industrial Automation
Office Administration
Robotics
Software
$25M28 Sep 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

MPP Global

Billing
CRM
E-Commerce
Identity Management
Internet
Publishing
SaaS
Subscription Service
Video
$16M04 May 2017 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

SportPursuit

E-Commerce
Retail
Sports
$13M22 Nov 2015 London, England, United Kingdom
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