Herald Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

24

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

1.04

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareSoftware EngineeringCyber SecurityHardwareRisk Management

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.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Media/ContentTelecommunications
Geo focus
United Kingdom
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)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (20)
  • India (1)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2008

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Quantitative data

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
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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