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Hg

Founders Frances Jacobs Ian Armitage

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Total investments 57
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$103M
Portfolio companies 53
Rounds per year 2.38
Lead investments 30
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 25
Key employees 25
Stages of investment
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • SaaS
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Silverfin

Accounting
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
$30M09 Jun 2020 Belgium, Ghent

Guomai

Content
News
Publishing
$45M03 Jan 2018 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

CollegeDaily.cn

Apps
Education
Information Technology
$3M28 Nov 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Hsmap

Health Care
$4M27 Oct 2017 China, Zhejiang

Information Technology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$29M05 Sep 2017 Futian District, Guangdong Province

Antengene Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$21M16 Aug 2017 China, Shanghai

Newrank.cn

Analytics
Big Data
$26M17 Mar 2017 China, Shanghai

Yijiupi

B2B
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Supply Chain Management
Wine And Spirits
$100M20 Oct 2016 Jiujiang District, Anhui, China

Fe3 Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$11M02 Mar 2016 San Jose, California, United States

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Total investments 57
Average round size 103M
Rounds per year 2.38
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 30
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 25
Group Appearance index 0.30

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Silverfin

Accounting
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
$30M09 Jun 2020 Belgium, Ghent

Guomai

Content
News
Publishing
$45M03 Jan 2018 Shangcheng District, Zhejiang, China

CollegeDaily.cn

Apps
Education
Information Technology
$3M28 Nov 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Hsmap

Health Care
$4M27 Oct 2017 China, Zhejiang

Information Technology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$29M05 Sep 2017 Futian District, Guangdong Province

Antengene Corporation

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
Pharmaceutical
$21M16 Aug 2017 China, Shanghai

Newrank.cn

Analytics
Big Data
$26M17 Mar 2017 China, Shanghai

Yijiupi

B2B
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Supply Chain Management
Wine And Spirits
$100M20 Oct 2016 Jiujiang District, Anhui, China

Fe3 Medical

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$11M02 Mar 2016 San Jose, California, United States
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