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Mustard Seed

Founders Alexander Pitt Henry Wigan

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 4.67
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 1
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Food and Beverage
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Consumer Goods
Summary

Mustard Seed appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The average startup value when the investment from Mustard Seed is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 49 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Mustard Seed works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2016.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Mustard Seed, startups are often financed by Theo Osborne, Intel Capital, Force Over Mass Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are London Co-Investment Fund, D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital, Theo Osborne. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Skycatcher, VentureSouq, Octopus Ventures.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rapido Bike Taxi, Stuffstr, Skin Analytics. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Health Care. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The current fund was established by Alexander Pitt, Henry Wigan. The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tiney

Child Care
Education
$9M13 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Winnow

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$10M13 Jun 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Loctax

SaaS
Software
$12M21 Sep 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Maven

Information Technology
Pet
SaaS
$3M08 Jun 2022 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

Collectiv Food

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Restaurants
$16M19 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

OHNE

Health Care
Manufacturing
Product Design
$1M01 Oct 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Skin Analytics

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$5M08 Sep 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Edukasyon.ph

EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Training
Universities
03 Sep 2020 Manila

Good Club

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Grocery
$1M21 Jul 2020 United Kingdom, England
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Collectiv Food raises $16M Series A to connect food producers directly with kitchens

– Collectiv Food, a food supply chain startup, raised $16m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by VNV Global and joined by VisVires New Protein, Octopus Ventures, Norrsken VC and existing investors, including Partech, Colle Capital and Mustard Seed.
– The company operates by sourcing food directly from producers, disintermediating the wholesaler middleman, and delivering straight to professional kitchens.
– Customers include Big Mamma Group, The Hush Collection, Dirty Bones, Megan’s, Crussh, Butchie’s, Cocotte, Tossed and Fresh Fitness Food.

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Total investments 42
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 4.67
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tiney

Child Care
Education
$9M13 May 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Winnow

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$10M13 Jun 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Loctax

SaaS
Software
$12M21 Sep 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Maven

Information Technology
Pet
SaaS
$3M08 Jun 2022 Delaware City, Delaware, United States

Collectiv Food

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Restaurants
$16M19 Jul 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

OHNE

Health Care
Manufacturing
Product Design
$1M01 Oct 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Skin Analytics

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
$5M08 Sep 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Edukasyon.ph

EdTech
Education
Higher Education
Training
Universities
03 Sep 2020 Manila

Good Club

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Grocery
$1M21 Jul 2020 United Kingdom, England
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