Hg

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

55

Average round size

107M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

2.29

Lead investments

29

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

25

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
AutomotiveAccountingSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSMedicalLegal

Summary

Hg appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The fund was created by Frances Jacobs, Ian Armitage. The overall number of key employees were 25.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Hg, startups are often financed by Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, car4you. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Qiming Venture Partners, Ping An Ventures, Jianmin Pharmaceuticals. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Tencent Holdings.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Hg is more than 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 48 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. This Hg works on 16 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Yijiupi (u6613u4e45u6279), The Access Group, Dada. 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. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - China. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseFuture of WorkFintechHealthcareInsurtech Show 1 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
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Check size
1M — 9M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 11000000000
Fund raised date
2022-11-08

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
29
Exits
25
Rounds per year
2.29
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (26)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Health Care (8)
  • Financial Services (6)
  • SaaS (5)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (14)
  • United States (10)
  • New Zealand (1)
  • China (7)
  • Norway (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
163M
Group Appearance index
0.31
Avg. company exit year
26
Avg. multiplicator
0.16
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CollegeDaily.cn 28 Nov 2017 Information Technology, Apps, Education Early Stage Venture 3M Beijing, Dongcheng District, China
Fe3 Medical 02 Mar 2016 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 11M United States, California, San Jose

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