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Nesta Impact Investments

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 3.00
Lead investments 12
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 3
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Internet
  • SaaS
  • Health Care
  • Software
Summary

Nesta Impact Investments appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Applied, Oomph Wellness, Third Space Learning. 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Social Media, E-Learning.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. This Nesta Impact Investments works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Nesta Impact Investments, startups are often financed by Wayra, Scottish Investment Bank, Isfield Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ananda Impact Ventures, Scottish Investment Bank, Isfield Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Finance Yorkshire, Ananda Impact Ventures, Valhalla Investments.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gaia Learning

Education
07 Oct 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

WeWALK

Apps
Assistive Technology
Health Care
Medical Device
Social Impact
$2M29 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

BibliU

E-Learning
Education
Publishing
Textbook
$16M09 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

MEL Science

EdTech
Education
Software
$15M01 Dec 2020 United Kingdom, England

Skin Analytics

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

BibliU

E-Learning
Education
Publishing
Textbook
$10M17 Apr 2020 United Kingdom, England

Q Doctor

Health Care
Video
$2M09 Apr 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Applied

Human Resources
Psychology
Recruiting
SaaS
$452K08 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Synopsis Healthcare

Health Care
Software
$685K13 Dec 2016 United Kingdom, London

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Total investments 36
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 3.00
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Gaia Learning

Education
07 Oct 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

WeWALK

Apps
Assistive Technology
Health Care
Medical Device
Social Impact
$2M29 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

BibliU

E-Learning
Education
Publishing
Textbook
$16M09 Jun 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

MEL Science

EdTech
Education
Software
$15M01 Dec 2020 United Kingdom, England

Skin Analytics

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

BibliU

E-Learning
Education
Publishing
Textbook
$10M17 Apr 2020 United Kingdom, England

Q Doctor

Health Care
Video
$2M09 Apr 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Applied

Human Resources
Psychology
Recruiting
SaaS
$452K08 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Synopsis Healthcare

Health Care
Software
$685K13 Dec 2016 United Kingdom, London
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