Innovate UK

Summary

Innovate UK appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2007. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Swindon.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Pharmaceutical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight F2G, Sky Medical Technology, Genomics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Innovate UK, startups are often financed by Newable Private Investing, Mercia Fund Managers, Scottish Investment Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SBRI Healthcare, Wayra, Longwall Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Entrepreneur First, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Oxford Technology Management.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Innovate UK is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. This Innovate UK works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 43 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

The overall number of key employees were 6.