HSBC

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

224

Average round size

283M

Portfolio companies

177

Rounds per year

1.41

Lead investments

57

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

38

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileFinanceEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingTelecommunications

Summary

HSBC is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1865. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the HSBC, startups are often financed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Iris Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments, Correlation Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ff Venture Capital, Correlation Ventures, Ignition Partners.

This organization was formed by Thomas Sutherland. We also calculated 35 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Service Industry, Software. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GrabTaxi, The Hut Group, Better Place.

The typical startup value when the investment from HSBC is more than 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this HSBC works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
224
Lead investments
57
Exits
38
Rounds per year
1.41
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (43)
  • FinTech (32)
  • Software (28)
  • Finance (20)
  • Enterprise Software (19)
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Investments by region
  • United Arab Emirates (3)
  • Saudi Arabia (1)
  • India (9)
  • United Kingdom (102)
  • Switzerland (3)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
16
Number of Decacorns
20
Number of Minotaurs
15

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
23
Avg. valuation at time of investment
914M
Group Appearance index
0.64
Avg. company exit year
35
Avg. multiplicator
1.01
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Classiq Technologies 17 Jun 2022 Quantum Computing Early Stage Venture 33M Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Marketnode 30 May 2024 Early Stage Venture Central Region, Singapore, Singapore

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