Minerva Business Angel Network

Type

Angel Group/Syndicate

Status

Active

Location

Coventry, United Kingdom

Total investments

17

Average round size

506K

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.12

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareHealth CareEducationManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalSemiconductorElectronicsEnergy

Summary

In 1994 was created Minerva Business Angel Network, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Coventry. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Minerva Business Angel Network, startups are often financed by Synergis Technologies, SyndicateRoom, Porton Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Angels 5K, Midven, Wild Blue Cohort. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SyndicateRoom, Newable Private Investing, Envestors.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2011. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Electronics, Education. 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 The Electrospinning Company, Warwick Acoustics Ltd, Lightpoint Medical Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (7)
  • Software (4)
  • Medical Device (3)
  • Electronics (3)
  • Education (2)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (17)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
904K
Group Appearance index
0.88

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bolo Indya 03 Aug 2020 Social, Mobile, Apps, Video, Language Learning Seed 300K India, Haryana, Gurugram
The Electrospinning Company 01 Feb 2017 Biotechnology, 3D Technology, Manufacturing, Medical Device, Life Science, Nanotechnology Seed 890K United Kingdom, England
Warwick Acoustics Ltd 25 Nov 2013 Automotive, Manufacturing, Electronics, Electrical Distribution Seed 1M United Kingdom, England, Nuneaton and Bedworth

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