Invest Northern Ireland

Type

Other

Status

Active

Total investments

35

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

1.59

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyCosmeticsSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingMedicalPharmaceuticalConsultingWeb Hosting

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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Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
5
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.59
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (13)
  • Biotechnology (12)
  • Medical (8)
  • Cosmetics (6)
  • Information Technology (5)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (25)
  • Ireland (4)
  • United States (4)
  • Norway (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
33M
Group Appearance index
0.51
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
1.56

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Provade, Inc. 23 Jan 2006 Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Small and Medium Businesses, Consulting, Virtual Workforce Early Stage Venture 4M United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee
SiSaf 29 May 2014 Biotechnology, Cosmetics, Health Care, Medical Seed 513K Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom
WE ARE PARADOXX 07 Nov 2019 Cosmetics, Consumer Seed 685K Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom

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