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IT Ventures

Founders Christopher Lyons Rupert Ralston

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Government
  • Enterprise Software
  • Education
Summary

IT Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the IT Ventures, startups are often financed by Shasta Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kevin Moore, GV, Ulu Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Susa Ventures, Social Leverage.

This organization was formed by Christopher Lyons, Rupert Ralston. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Comparing to the other companies, this IT Ventures performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Education. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Robinhood, Epylon, TaskRabbit. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pure Biofuel

Forestry
Manufacturing
Paper Manufacturing
01 Jan 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Robinhood

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
Financial Services
FinTech
Stock Exchanges
Trading Platform
$3M01 Dec 2013 California, United States

Filmzu

Advertising
Digital Media
Social Media
TV Production
Video
Video on Demand
$50K01 Jan 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

HomeLight

FinTech
Intellectual Property
Property Management
Real Estate
Software
$1M15 Nov 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

reQall

Hardware
Mobile
Productivity Tools
$2M06 Mar 2008 India, Andhra Pradesh, India

Epylon

Education
Enterprise Software
Government
Software
$30M29 Feb 2000 California, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.50

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pure Biofuel

Forestry
Manufacturing
Paper Manufacturing
01 Jan 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Robinhood

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Ethereum
Financial Services
FinTech
Stock Exchanges
Trading Platform
$3M01 Dec 2013 California, United States

Filmzu

Advertising
Digital Media
Social Media
TV Production
Video
Video on Demand
$50K01 Jan 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

HomeLight

FinTech
Intellectual Property
Property Management
Real Estate
Software
$1M15 Nov 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

reQall

Hardware
Mobile
Productivity Tools
$2M06 Mar 2008 India, Andhra Pradesh, India

Epylon

Education
Enterprise Software
Government
Software
$30M29 Feb 2000 California, United States
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