Hostplus
Hedge fund
Active
Melbourne, Australia
39
42M
28
1.08
3
0.28
1
- Areas of investment
Summary
The fund was located in Australia. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Melbourne.
The overall number of key employees were 4.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Hostplus, startups are often financed by IP Group Plc, Woodford Investment Management, Blackbird Ventures (Australia). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IP Group Plc, Woodford Investment Management, Square Peg Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Square Peg Capital, Salesforce Ventures, NAB Ventures.
The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Hostplus the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Genetics, Biopharma. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Cardiac Dimensions, Bugcrowd
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 39
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 1
- Rounds per year
- 1.08
- Follow on index
- 0.28
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (9)
- Financial Services (6)
- Information Technology (6)
- Software (6)
- FinTech (5) Show 65 more
- Investments by region
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- Australia (19)
- United Kingdom (10)
- United States (10)
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 416M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.97
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 8.69
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleet Space Technologies | 24 May 2023 | Telecommunications, Internet of Things, Satellite Communication | Late Stage Venture | 36M | Western Australia, Australia, Australia |
| Zeller | 02 Mar 2022 | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Banking | Early Stage Venture | 73M | Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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