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HSBC

Founders Thomas Sutherland

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Total investments 235
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$307M
Portfolio companies 188
Rounds per year 1.48
Lead investments 63
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 39
Key employees 35
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Finance
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FINBOURNE Technology

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
$137M11 Sep 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Marketnode

30 May 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Fano Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
02 May 2024 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Weidu Technology

Manufacturing
$110M11 Apr 2024 Hefei, Anhui, China

Tree Energy Solutions

$165M04 Apr 2024 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Greenly

Banking
Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Mobile Apps
Quantified Self
Software
$56M21 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Tri’n’collect

Business Development
Recycling
Service Industry
$3M03 Oct 2022 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Armalytix

Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$1M28 Sep 2022 Slough, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Tree Energy Solutions

$76M21 Jul 2022 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
News
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations

– Quantexa, a London-based AI startup, raised $153m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Warburg Pincus and joined by existing investors Dawn Capital, AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners (a specialist cybersecurity VC), HSBC, ABN AMRO Ventures and British Patient Capital.
– The company was valued between $800m and $900m.
– Quantexa got its start out of a gap in the market that Marria identified when he was working as a director at Ernst & Young tasked with helping its clients with money laundering and other fraudulent activity.
– It has now raised over $240m to date.

Buy Now Pay Later Platform Divido Raises $30 million Series B

– Divido has raised a $30m Series B funding round to fuel international expansion, while continuing to build out its market-leading platform for lenders and merchants.
– The round was led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures.
– Divido’s whitelabel platform connects lenders, merchants and partners at the point of sale, transforming retail finance with proven technology and industry expertise to create a flexible way to control and configure payments.

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Total investments 235
Average round size 307M
Rounds per year 1.48
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 63
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 39
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FINBOURNE Technology

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
SaaS
Software
$137M11 Sep 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Marketnode

30 May 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Fano Labs

Artificial Intelligence
Customer Service
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
02 May 2024 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Weidu Technology

Manufacturing
$110M11 Apr 2024 Hefei, Anhui, China

Tree Energy Solutions

$165M04 Apr 2024 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Greenly

Banking
Environmental Engineering
GreenTech
Mobile Apps
Quantified Self
Software
$56M21 Mar 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Tri’n’collect

Business Development
Recycling
Service Industry
$3M03 Oct 2022 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Armalytix

Financial Services
FinTech
Personal Finance
$1M28 Sep 2022 Slough, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Tree Energy Solutions

$76M21 Jul 2022 Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
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