Longbow Capital

Total investments

14

Average round size

73M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.58

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.27

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareMessagingEnterprise SoftwareMedicalCloud ComputingNeuroscienceTelecommunicationsPower GridWired Telecommunications

Summary

In 2004 was created Longbow Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Norwich.

This organization was formed by Douglas Snyder, Edward Beckett, Ron Petersen. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Longbow Capital works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2010. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Longbow Capital, startups are often financed by YFM Equity Partners, Lacomp Plc, Juno Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Imperial Innovations, Juno Capital Partners, YFM Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Juno Capital Partners, Imperial Innovations, SyndicateRoom.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sky Medical Technology, BioCeramic Therapeutics, Domainex Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Therapeutics, Biopharma. 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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
6
Rounds per year
0.58
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Messaging (2)
  • Enterprise Software (2)
  • Telecommunications (2)
  • Cloud Computing (2)
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Investments by region
  • Netherlands (2)
  • United States (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2010
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
560M
Group Appearance index
0.07
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Clir Renewables 01 Jun 2021 Software, SaaS, Renewable Energy Early Stage Venture 21M British Columbia, Richmond, Canada
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