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Invest Northern Ireland

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 1.59
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 6
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Cosmetics
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 2002 was created Invest Northern Ireland, which is appeared as VC.

The overall number of key employees were 9.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Web Hosting. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Intune Networks, Gendel, Axis Three.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Invest Northern Ireland works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Invest Northern Ireland, startups are often financed by Crescent Capital, Clarendon Fund Managers, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are QUBIS, Crescent Capital, Co-FundNI. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sutter Hill Ventures, Polaris Partners, Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden).

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Globus.ai

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Machine Learning
Software
$1M15 Dec 2020 Norway, Rogaland, Norway

Gratsi

FinTech
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
01 Nov 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

WE ARE PARADOXX

Consumer
Cosmetics
$685K07 Nov 2019 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

WE ARE PARADOXX

Consumer
Cosmetics
$584K19 Feb 2019 Belfast, Northern Ireland

SiSaf

Biotechnology
Cosmetics
Health Care
Medical
$4M31 May 2018 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

ProtectBox

Consulting
Information Technology
Internet
$41K20 Jan 2017 Ireland, County Galway, Ireland

SiSaf

Biotechnology
Cosmetics
Health Care
Medical
$261K25 Jun 2015 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

SiSaf

Biotechnology
Cosmetics
Health Care
Medical
$513K29 May 2014 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Taggled

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
SEO
Video
$411K06 Jan 2014 Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Total investments 35
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.59
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.51

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Globus.ai

Artificial Intelligence
CRM
Machine Learning
Software
$1M15 Dec 2020 Norway, Rogaland, Norway

Gratsi

FinTech
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
01 Nov 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

WE ARE PARADOXX

Consumer
Cosmetics
$685K07 Nov 2019 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

WE ARE PARADOXX

Consumer
Cosmetics
$584K19 Feb 2019 Belfast, Northern Ireland

SiSaf

Biotechnology
Cosmetics
Health Care
Medical
$4M31 May 2018 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

ProtectBox

Consulting
Information Technology
Internet
$41K20 Jan 2017 Ireland, County Galway, Ireland

SiSaf

Biotechnology
Cosmetics
Health Care
Medical
$261K25 Jun 2015 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

SiSaf

Biotechnology
Cosmetics
Health Care
Medical
$513K29 May 2014 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Taggled

Advertising
Advertising Platforms
SEO
Video
$411K06 Jan 2014 Belfast, Northern Ireland
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