MSIF

Summary

Merseyside Special Investment Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Liverpool.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Merseyside Special Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Pitch@Palace. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foresight Group, Enterprise Ventures, Catapult Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yorkshire Bank, Maven Capital Partners, Innovate UK.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Hardware, Information Technology. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Blue Prism Group, Paver Downes Associates, Biofortuna The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The high activity for fund was in 2006. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Merseyside Special Investment Fund works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.