Manta Ray Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

73

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

44

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsBiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyE-LearningFood and BeverageHealth CareEdTechEducation

Summary

The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Manta Ray Ventures, startups are often financed by Troy Capital Partners, Point Nine Capital, The Pritzker Organization. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kulczyk Investments, Upfront Ventures, Social Starts. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seedcamp, Prosus, Idinvest Partners.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Booksy, Brainly, Toonstar The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
ManufacturingB2B/EnterpriseFintech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
AlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCroatiaCzechia Show 11 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
73
Lead investments
5
Exits
1
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Health Care (11)
  • Biotechnology (10)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Education (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (25)
  • Israel (3)
  • Poland (11)
  • India (4)
  • Germany (8)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
45M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
1
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
coinpaprika - crypto market data 01 Jan 2021 Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Database, Data Visualization Seed Wielkopolskie, Poznan, Poland
Juvena Therapeutics 08 Nov 2022 Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma Early Stage Venture 41M United States, California, Palo Alto
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