Nesta Impact Investments

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

35

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

2.92

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
PublishingInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesRecruitingFinanceHealth CareSaaSEducationBanking

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EdtechFoodtechHealthcareClimate techFuture of Work Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Check size
622K — 1M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 50000000
Fund raised date
2022-11-30

Analytics

Total investments
35
Lead investments
11
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.92
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Education (21)
  • Internet (9)
  • SaaS (7)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (34)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.69
Avg. company exit year
7

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oomph Wellness 01 May 2016 Internet, Fitness, Health Care, Internet of Things, Leisure, Elder Care Early Stage Venture 487K United Kingdom, London, England
WeWALK 29 Nov 2022 Health Care, Apps, Medical Device, Social Impact, Assistive Technology Seed 2M England, London, United Kingdom

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