Herald Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
London, United Kingdom
24
5M
15
1.04
2
0.38
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Herald Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Herald Ventures, startups are often financed by Pentech Ventures, Oxford Capital Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oxford Capital Partners, Pentech Ventures, Spark Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Capital Partners, Spark Ventures, Pentech Ventures.
The top activity for fund was in 2008. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Herald Ventures works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sphere Medical Holding, Celoxica, Info. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Search Engine, Embedded Systems. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 314K — 4M
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- GBP 30500000
- Fund raised date
- 2005-06-01
Analytics
- Total investments
- 24
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 1.04
- Follow on index
- 0.38
- Investments by industry
- Software (14)
- Information Technology (7)
- Hardware (7)
- Risk Management (6)
- SaaS (5) Show 35 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (20)
- India (1)
- United States (3)
- Peak activity year
- 2008
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 19
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 47M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.83
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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CriticalBlue | 01 Oct 2003 | Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Security, Embedded Software | Early Stage Venture | 2M | United Kingdom, Scotland, City of Edinburgh |
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