Mercia Asset Management PLC

Summary

Mercia Technologies appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Henley In Arden.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Mercia Technologies, startups are often financed by Innovate UK, Development Bank of Wales, Touchstone Innovations. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Touchstone Innovations, Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, Woodford Investment Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upscale, University of Birmingham, Touchstone Innovations.

The current fund was established by Tim Hazell. Besides them, we counted 8 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This Mercia Technologies works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Mercia Technologies is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 49 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Psioxus Therapeutics, Smart Antenna Technologies, W2 Global Data The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Services, Energy.