HgCapital Trust

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

14

Average round size

229M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.33

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyHealth CareAppsEnterprise SoftwareSoftware EngineeringMusicVideoWeb Development

Summary

HgCapital Trust plc is the famous VC, which was founded in 1980. 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 1-2 partakers. Despite the HgCapital Trust plc, startups are often financed by Telefonica Innovation Ventures - Overview, Telefonica, Riverside Company. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intermediate Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intermediate Capital Group, Huagai Capital, EQT.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of more than 20 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fundinfo, Noventic, Rhapsody. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Data Integration, CRM.

Opposing the other organizations, this HgCapital Trust plc works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 44 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from HgCapital Trust plc the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
8
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.33
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Information Technology (4)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Software Engineering (3)
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Investments by region
  • Norway (1)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Germany (2)
  • United States (2)
  • Switzerland (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
255M
Group Appearance index
0.29
Avg. company exit year
22
Avg. multiplicator
4.46
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Genome Wisdom 09 Sep 2019 Health Care Early Stage Venture 0 China, Beijing, Dongcheng District

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