Midven

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Total investments

124

Average round size

911K

Portfolio companies

107

Rounds per year

3.76

Lead investments

43

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

19

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareEducationManufacturingMedical DeviceHardwareMedia and EntertainmentEnergy

Summary

Midven is the famous VC, which was founded in 1991. The main department of described VC is located in the Birmingham. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The typical startup value when the investment from Midven is 1-5 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Midven performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Midven, startups are often financed by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Oxford Technology Management, Development Bank of Wales. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Catapult Ventures, Mercia Fund Managers. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SyndicateRoom, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Parkwalk Advisors.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Proxisense, Everyclick, Prism Network Ltd We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Internet. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United Kingdom, England, West Midlands

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 35000000
Fund raised date
2018-03-12

Analytics

Total investments
124
Lead investments
43
Exits
19
Rounds per year
3.76
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (39)
  • Manufacturing (26)
  • Information Technology (19)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Medical Device (10)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (118)
  • United States (4)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
1.47

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Abgentis 09 Oct 2012 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Seed 102K England, Vale of White Horse, United Kingdom
Eyoto 12 Jan 2021 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Device Early Stage Venture 3M England, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Next Academy 06 Sep 2015 Education, Sports, Franchise Seed 1M Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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