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Midlands Engine Investment Fund

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Total investments 105
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$924K
Portfolio companies 94
Rounds per year 10.50
Lead investments 41
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
Summary

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Manufacturing, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Locate Bio, Footfalls & Heartbeats The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Pitch@Palace, Foresight Group, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mercia Fund Managers, Midven, Oxford Sciences Innovation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rising Stars, Parkwalk Advisors, Mercia Technologies.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 55 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Purple Transform

Business Intelligence
$6M11 Sep 2024 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Neupulse

Health Care
$685K31 Jul 2024 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Lexverify

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Software
$1M26 Mar 2024 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Denturly Limited

$1M01 Dec 2023 -

Medmin Group Limited

Health Care
$1M14 Jul 2023 Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Capri Healthcare Ltd

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Language Learning
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
$438K30 Jun 2023 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

OLPRO

Manufacturing
$1M01 Mar 2023 Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

TextureJet

Industrial Engineering
Machinery Manufacturing
$548K16 Dec 2022 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Virtue Health Group

Health Care
Hospital
$1M06 Dec 2022 Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 105
Average round size 924K
Rounds per year 10.50
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 41
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.35

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Purple Transform

Business Intelligence
$6M11 Sep 2024 Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Neupulse

Health Care
$685K31 Jul 2024 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Lexverify

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Software
$1M26 Mar 2024 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Denturly Limited

$1M01 Dec 2023 -

Medmin Group Limited

Health Care
$1M14 Jul 2023 Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Capri Healthcare Ltd

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Language Learning
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Software
$438K30 Jun 2023 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

OLPRO

Manufacturing
$1M01 Mar 2023 Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

TextureJet

Industrial Engineering
Machinery Manufacturing
$548K16 Dec 2022 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Virtue Health Group

Health Care
Hospital
$1M06 Dec 2022 Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
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