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Midlands Engine Investment Fund

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Total investments 96
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$859K
Portfolio companies 88
Rounds per year 9.60
Lead investments 36
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 1
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • 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

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

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

iEthico

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$856K27 Sep 2022 Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Workbuzz

Internet
Social Media
$2M28 Jun 2022 -

Previsico

Analytics
Environmental Consulting
Risk Management
$2M16 Sep 2021 Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

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Total investments 96
Average round size 859K
Rounds per year 9.60
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 36
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.34

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lexverify

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

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

iEthico

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$856K27 Sep 2022 Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Workbuzz

Internet
Social Media
$2M28 Jun 2022 -

Previsico

Analytics
Environmental Consulting
Risk Management
$2M16 Sep 2021 Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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