NCB Ventures

Total investments

10

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

9

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareManufacturingBusiness IntelligenceMedicalEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Oil and GasRFIDEnvironmental EngineeringRecycling

Summary

The main department of described VC is located in the Dublin. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Ireland.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Intelligence, Internet. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get 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 - Ireland. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AMCS Group, TERMINALFOUR, Gridstore. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this NCB Ventures works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2010.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the NCB Ventures, startups are often financed by Enterprise Ireland, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund, Shannon Development Company. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ireland, Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund, Shannon Development Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ireland, Investec, ONSET Ventures.

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Analytics

Total investments
10
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Business Intelligence (3)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Manufacturing (2)
  • RFID (2)
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Investments by region
  • Japan (2)
  • Ireland (7)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
LUCA Science 06 Jun 2022 Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Early Stage Venture 35M Chiyoda, Japan

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