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International Investment & Underwriting Limited

Founders Dermot Fachtna Desmond

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$19M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.35
Lead investments 4
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Online Games
  • Telecommunications
  • Semiconductor
  • Manufacturing
Summary

In 1995 was created International Investment & Underwriting Limited, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dublin.

This organization was formed by Dermot Fachtna Desmond.

Comparing to the other companies, this International Investment & Underwriting Limited performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The top activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Vela Games, Youdio, U4EA We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Computer, Quantum Computing. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the International Investment & Underwriting Limited, startups are often financed by GrowthWorks Capital, DFJ, BDC Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, GrowthWorks Capital, DFJ. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by In-Q-Tel, Goldman Sachs, DFJ.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Computer
Online Games
PC Games
Software
Video Games
$3M08 Apr 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Vela Games

Computer
Online Games
PC Games
Software
Video Games
$4M12 Jul 2019 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Vahna

Cloud Security
Information Technology
Security
17 Sep 2014 District of Columbia, United States

Youdio

Music
Software
Video
$5M22 May 2014 County Dublin

D-Wave Systems

Electronics
Manufacturing
Quantum Computing
Semiconductor
$17M31 Jan 2008 British Columbia

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Total investments 9
Average round size 19M
Rounds per year 0.35
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Computer
Online Games
PC Games
Software
Video Games
$3M08 Apr 2020 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Vela Games

Computer
Online Games
PC Games
Software
Video Games
$4M12 Jul 2019 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Vahna

Cloud Security
Information Technology
Security
17 Sep 2014 District of Columbia, United States

Youdio

Music
Software
Video
$5M22 May 2014 County Dublin

D-Wave Systems

Electronics
Manufacturing
Quantum Computing
Semiconductor
$17M31 Jan 2008 British Columbia
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