IP Group Plc

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

278

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

150

Rounds per year

12.09

Lead investments

33

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

20

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalLife ScienceTherapeutics

Summary

IP Group Plc is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2001. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

The current fund was established by David Norwood, Michael Burychka. We also calculated 25 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 Oxford Nanopore Technologies, WaveOptics, Yoyo Wallet. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Health Diagnostics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from IP Group Plc is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This IP Group Plc works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the IP Group Plc, startups are often financed by Innovate UK, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Lansdowne Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Northstar Ventures, Lansdowne Partners, Oxford Technology Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Lansdowne Partners, Invesco, Northstar Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Biotech/Life SciencesDeep TechClimate tech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
278
Lead investments
33
Exits
20
Rounds per year
12.09
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (72)
  • Health Care (54)
  • Software (50)
  • Therapeutics (38)
  • Information Technology (35)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (230)
  • United States (29)
  • Australia (4)
  • Sweden (1)
  • New Zealand (2)
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Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
22M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
1.39
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ieso Digital Health 23 Nov 2021 Information Technology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics Early Stage Venture 46M Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lumai 31 Dec 2021 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Seed 2M England, Oxford, United Kingdom

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