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Herald Ventures

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Total investments 24
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.04
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
Exits 5
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Hardware
  • Risk Management
  • SaaS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ather Energy

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$52M18 Oct 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Attraqt

Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
E-Commerce
IT Consulting and Outsourcing
Retail Technology
SaaS
Social/Platform Software
Software
01 Nov 2015 England

Customer Service
Developer Platform
Information Technology
Manufacturing
11 Dec 2012 California, United States

Celoxica

Financial Services
FinTech
Hardware
Risk Management
Software
$881K08 May 2012 London, England, United Kingdom

Celoxica

Financial Services
FinTech
Hardware
Risk Management
Software
$1M10 Aug 2010 London, England, United Kingdom

Customer Service
Developer Platform
Information Technology
Manufacturing
03 Feb 2010 California, United States

Natilik

Communications Infrastructure
Information Services
Information Technology
01 Jan 2010 England

Jazz FM

Music
14 Apr 2009 England

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$6M21 Oct 2008 South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 24
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.04
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.38
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ather Energy

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Manufacturing
$52M18 Oct 2022 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Attraqt

Automation/Workflow Software
Business/Productivity Software
E-Commerce
IT Consulting and Outsourcing
Retail Technology
SaaS
Social/Platform Software
Software
01 Nov 2015 England

Customer Service
Developer Platform
Information Technology
Manufacturing
11 Dec 2012 California, United States

Celoxica

Financial Services
FinTech
Hardware
Risk Management
Software
$881K08 May 2012 London, England, United Kingdom

Celoxica

Financial Services
FinTech
Hardware
Risk Management
Software
$1M10 Aug 2010 London, England, United Kingdom

Customer Service
Developer Platform
Information Technology
Manufacturing
03 Feb 2010 California, United States

Natilik

Communications Infrastructure
Information Services
Information Technology
01 Jan 2010 England

Jazz FM

Music
14 Apr 2009 England

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$6M21 Oct 2008 South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

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