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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$38M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.12
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 3
Key employees 24
Stages of investment
Post-Ipo

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1836 was created Legal & General, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Environmental Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Celoxica, Smartr365, Upside Energy For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Legal & General, startups are often financed by Equinor, Quester, Blenheim Chalcot. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blenheim Chalcot, Oxford Capital Partners, Invesco. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Capital Partners, Herald Ventures, Spark Ventures.

We also calculated 24 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from Legal & General the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Legal & General performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Onto

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
GreenTech
Leasing
Subscription Service
Technical Support
Transportation
$60M26 Jul 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Onto

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
GreenTech
Leasing
Subscription Service
Technical Support
Transportation
$175M27 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Congenica

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
$50M09 Nov 2020 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Current Health

Health Care
Home Health Care
Medical Device
$4M17 Jun 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Current Health

Health Care
Home Health Care
Medical Device
$11M10 Dec 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Salary Finance

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$32M16 Apr 2019 England

WiredScore

Consulting
Real Estate
Telecommunications
$9M22 Oct 2018 New York, New York, United States

Salary Finance

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$20M28 Aug 2018 England

Smartr365

Financial Services
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$9M03 Aug 2018 England

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Total investments 22
Average round size 38M
Rounds per year 0.12
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Onto

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
GreenTech
Leasing
Subscription Service
Technical Support
Transportation
$60M26 Jul 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Onto

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
GreenTech
Leasing
Subscription Service
Technical Support
Transportation
$175M27 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Congenica

Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
$50M09 Nov 2020 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Current Health

Health Care
Home Health Care
Medical Device
$4M17 Jun 2020 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Current Health

Health Care
Home Health Care
Medical Device
$11M10 Dec 2019 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Salary Finance

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$32M16 Apr 2019 England

WiredScore

Consulting
Real Estate
Telecommunications
$9M22 Oct 2018 New York, New York, United States

Salary Finance

Employee Benefits
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$20M28 Aug 2018 England

Smartr365

Financial Services
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$9M03 Aug 2018 England
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