JamJar Investments

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

101

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

81

Rounds per year

8.42

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinancial ServicesFinTechConsumer GoodsRetailConsumerFinanceFood and BeverageFitnessHealth Care

Summary

JamJar Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the JamJar Investments, startups are often financed by Hambro Perks Ltd., Will Neale, Theo Osborne. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Force Over Mass Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Octopus Ventures, dmg ventures.

The current fund was established by Adam Balon, Jon Wright, Katie Marrache, Richard Reed. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from JamJar Investments the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. This JamJar Investments works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Deliveroo, CHRONEXT, Simba Sleep The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Mobile Apps. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 34 more
Check size
634K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 100000000
Fund raised date
2022-04-06

Analytics

Total investments
101
Lead investments
20
Exits
8
Rounds per year
8.42
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (20)
  • Health Care (11)
  • Financial Services (11)
  • Food and Beverage (10)
  • Consumer (9)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (84)
  • United States (6)
  • Australia (1)
  • The Netherlands (2)
  • Netherlands (2)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
128M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.03
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lollipop 10 May 2022 E-Commerce, Grocery, Shopping Seed 6M Essex, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Runna 27 Nov 2023 Personal Development, Fitness, Training, Sports Seed 6M England, London, United Kingdom

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