Luminous Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

33

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

24

Rounds per year

6.60

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFitnessHealth CareLife SciencePharmaceuticalHardware

Summary

Luminous Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

This organization was formed by Isabel Fox, Lomax Ward. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Luminous Ventures, startups are often financed by Entrepreneur First, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IQ Capital, SOSV, Entrepreneur First. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, iNovia Capital, Talis Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sparrho, Beyond, BioBeats. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Hospital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2018.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep TechHealthcareBiotech/Life Sciences
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 39 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 55000000
Fund raised date
2019-02-14

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
7
Exits
1
Rounds per year
6.60
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (11)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Health Care (10)
  • Machine Learning (8)
  • Biotechnology (7)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (22)
  • United States (5)
  • Canada (3)
  • Poland (1)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
45K
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ellipsis Health 01 Dec 2020 Software, Information Technology, Fitness, Health Care Seed 6M United States, California, San Francisco
Vital Biosciences 23 Jan 2019 Health Care Seed Ontario, Old Toronto, Canada
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