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Mercia Asset Management

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.93
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
  • Medical
  • Biotechnology
Summary

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Video, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sense Biodetection, Voxpopme.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Mercia Asset Management, startups are often financed by Upscale, Mercia Technologies, Mercia Fund Managers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Origin Ventures, NVM Private Equity, Jonathan Milner. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Innovate UK.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Newcells Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
16 Mar 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

HowNow

E-Learning
Education
Internet
$5M06 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Flabba

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Video
Video Conferencing
Virtual Workforce
$548K31 Oct 2022 Bournemouth, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Cloud8

Cloud Data Services
Software
$1M28 Mar 2022 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Forensic Analytics

Analytics
Consulting
Software
Training
$6M28 Oct 2021 Letchworth, East, United Kingdom

Citizenme

Digital Marketing
Identity Management
Information Technology
Internet
Market Research
Software
$2M25 Oct 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$50M20 Apr 2021 Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom

Newcells Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$6M24 Feb 2021 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Oto Health

Apps
Health Care
Therapeutics
23 Feb 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Forensic Analytics Raises £4.5M in Funding

– Forensic Analytics is a digital forensics company based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK.
– The company raised £4.5m in funding.
– The funding was led by Mercia Asset Management PLC via its own balance sheet and the Northern VCT Funds.
– The new investment will be used to further invest into its innovative cloud-based software platform and expand its sales internationally.

Locate Bio Closes £10 Million Funding Round

– Locate Bio is pleased to announce that it has raised an oversubscribed £10 million of equity investment in a funding round co-led by existing shareholder Mercia Asset Management and new investor BGF.
– The funding will be used to further advance Locate Bio’s proprietary pipeline of regenerative orthobiologics products towards patients, with key clinical and regulatory milestones expected to catalyse growth over the next two years.
– The investment brings the total funds raised by Locate Bio to over £18 million. The company’s lead product in development is called LDGraft, and is a low dose, controlled release rhBMP-2 for the treatment of degenerative disc disease.

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Total investments 27
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.93
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.22
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Newcells Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
16 Mar 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

HowNow

E-Learning
Education
Internet
$5M06 Feb 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Flabba

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
Video
Video Conferencing
Virtual Workforce
$548K31 Oct 2022 Bournemouth, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Cloud8

Cloud Data Services
Software
$1M28 Mar 2022 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Forensic Analytics

Analytics
Consulting
Software
Training
$6M28 Oct 2021 Letchworth, East, United Kingdom

Citizenme

Digital Marketing
Identity Management
Information Technology
Internet
Market Research
Software
$2M25 Oct 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$50M20 Apr 2021 Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom

Newcells Biotech

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$6M24 Feb 2021 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Oto Health

Apps
Health Care
Therapeutics
23 Feb 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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