Horizon Capital
Private equity
Active
London, United Kingdom
35
19M
20
1.46
3
0.03
8
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2000 was created Horizon Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Horizon Capital, startups are often financed by Northern Light Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital China, SMRK VC Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zubr Capital, Steamboat Ventures, Souter Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Steamboat Ventures, Soros Fund Management, Signatures Capital.
The overall number of key employees were 20.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Telecommunications, Finance. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Access Group, Stokes Bio, Timico. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 16-20 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.
The real fund results show that this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Horizon Capital performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Horizon Capital is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2010. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 35
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 1.46
- Follow on index
- 0.03
- Investments by industry
- Information Technology (5)
- Software (4)
- Consulting (4)
- Professional Services (3)
- Information Services (2) Show 52 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (16)
- United States (1)
- Ukraine (1)
- Canada (1)
- India (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2012
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 26
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.66
- Avg. company exit year
- 28
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.02
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preply | 19 Jul 2023 | E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Tutoring | Late Stage Venture | 42M | United States, Massachusetts |
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