Illuminate Financial Management

Summary

Illuminate Financial is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are FinTech, Finance. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Privitar, Genesis Global Solutions, RegTek Solutions. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Illuminate Financial works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 36 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

This organization was formed by Mark Beeston, Mark Whitcroft. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Illuminate Financial, startups are often financed by ValueStream Ventures, Tribeca Angels, Soros Fund Management. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tribeca Angels, ValueStream Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Citigroup, Salesforce Ventures, Partech.