Highland Europe

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

118

Average round size

63M

Portfolio companies

71

Rounds per year

9.83

Lead investments

40

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

17

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSBig DataFashionCRM

Summary

In 2012 was created Highland Europe, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Geneva. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Highland Europe, startups are often financed by Notion, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Eden Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Highland Capital Partners, Eden Ventures, Notion. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Future Fifty, Index Ventures, Insight Partners.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline GetYourGuide, Adjust, Nexthink Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Shopping, SaaS. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this Highland Europe works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Highland Europe is 100-500 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 35 more
Check size
22M — 82M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 1000000000
Fund raised date
2023-01-23

Analytics

Total investments
118
Lead investments
40
Exits
17
Rounds per year
9.83
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (44)
  • E-Commerce (27)
  • SaaS (24)
  • Analytics (20)
  • Information Technology (19)
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Investments by region
  • France (17)
  • United Kingdom (43)
  • United States (17)
  • Germany (21)
  • Finland (6)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
245M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
2.78
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
FINBOURNE Technology 17 Jun 2024 Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, SaaS Early Stage Venture 75M England, London, United Kingdom
Zwift 16 Sep 2020 Fitness, Wellness, Cycling Late Stage Venture 450M United States, California, Long Beach

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