Investec

Type

Bank, Other

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

66

Average round size

81M

Portfolio companies

60

Rounds per year

1.32

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

19

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyFinanceData CenterTelecommunicationsEnergyRenewable EnergySolar

Summary

Investec appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1974. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in South Africa. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cape Town.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 34 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Investec works on 3 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Investec is 50-100 millions dollars.

We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vivint Solar, Sunrun, Fenergo.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Investec, startups are often financed by Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund, NCB Ventures, Ventech China. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AIB Seed Capital Fund, Enterprise Ireland, Zhong Capital Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Silicon Valley Bank, Insight Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
23
Exits
19
Rounds per year
1.32
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Financial Services (12)
  • Information Technology (11)
  • Energy (8)
  • Renewable Energy (7)
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Investments by region
  • India (1)
  • United Kingdom (15)
  • United States (15)
  • South Africa (11)
  • Australia (12)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
82M
Group Appearance index
0.59
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.09
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CPower 27 Sep 2007 Real Estate, Consulting, Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management Early Stage Venture 17M United States, New York, New York
Omnisient 06 Jul 2021 Information Technology, Data Center Seed 1M Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa

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