Growing Capital

Location

Dublin, United Kingdom

Total investments

21

Average round size

732K

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

2.33

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.14

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageMobile AppsBrand MarketingFood DeliveryMachinery Manufacturing

Summary

In 2015 was created Growing Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dublin.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the Growing Capital, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ireland, Plug and Play, Pascal Levy-Garboua. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are European Investment Fund, Enterprise Ireland, William Hockey. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Frontline Ventures, Elkstone.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Siren, Flipdish, Glofox. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Fitness, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get 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 - Ireland. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

This organization was formed by Gianni Matera.

When the investment is from Growing Capital the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Analytics

Total investments
21
Lead investments
4
Rounds per year
2.33
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Analytics (4)
  • Mobile Apps (3)
  • Brand Marketing (3)
  • Food Delivery (3)
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Investments by region
  • Ireland (20)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
67M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

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