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Total investments 122
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$885K
Portfolio companies 106
Rounds per year 3.70
Lead investments 43
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 19
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Hardware
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

Nylahs Naturals

Beauty
Cosmetics
Fashion
$726K08 Nov 2023 Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Strolll Neurotechnology

$2M17 Oct 2023 -

Medmin Group Limited

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

3D Technology
Biotechnology
Life Science
Manufacturing
Medical Device
Nanotechnology
$2M04 Jun 2019 United Kingdom, England

Natural HR Limited

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Software
$342K28 Mar 2019 United Kingdom, Birmingham

Utonomy

Energy
Oil and Gas
Pollution Control
Warehousing
12 Jan 2017 United Kingdom, England

Proxisense

Hardware
Sensor
$452K28 Oct 2016 United Kingdom, England

Expert Trades

Internet
Software
$265K08 Mar 2016 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 122
Average round size 885K
Rounds per year 3.70
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 43
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.56

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

Nylahs Naturals

Beauty
Cosmetics
Fashion
$726K08 Nov 2023 Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Strolll Neurotechnology

$2M17 Oct 2023 -

Medmin Group Limited

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

3D Technology
Biotechnology
Life Science
Manufacturing
Medical Device
Nanotechnology
$2M04 Jun 2019 United Kingdom, England

Natural HR Limited

Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
Software
$342K28 Mar 2019 United Kingdom, Birmingham

Utonomy

Energy
Oil and Gas
Pollution Control
Warehousing
12 Jan 2017 United Kingdom, England

Proxisense

Hardware
Sensor
$452K28 Oct 2016 United Kingdom, England

Expert Trades

Internet
Software
$265K08 Mar 2016 United Kingdom, England
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