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Nesta Ventures

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Total investments 74
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 2.96
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 10
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Software
  • Medical
  • Health Care
  • Medical Device
Summary

In 1998 was created Nesta Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. Nesta Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Nesta Ventures, startups are often financed by Oxford Capital Partners, Seraphim Capital, Providence Investment Company Limited. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Imperial Innovations, YFM Equity Partners, Oxford Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YFM Equity Partners, Oxford Capital Partners, Morningside Venture Partners.

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 most popular fund investment industries, there are Manufacturing, Hardware. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Featurespace, Light Blue Optics, Veryan Medical.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Nesta Ventures works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Nesta Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Citymart

Business Intelligence
Government
GovTech
Procurement
SaaS
19 Mar 2018 New York, United States

Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Security
$2M02 Jun 2017 East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Cytox

Biotechnology
Genetics
$3M01 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, England

Skimlinks

Advertising
Content
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketing
11 Nov 2011 London, England, United Kingdom

Haemostatix

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
01 Aug 2011 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

CellNovo

Biotechnology
Diabetes
Health Care
Medical Device
$41M04 Feb 2011 Allerdale, England, United Kingdom

Kaptivo

Hardware
Meeting Software
Software
Video Conferencing
$13M11 Oct 2010 California, United States

BaseKit

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
Web Design
$2M15 Jun 2010 England

Veryan Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$5M05 Apr 2010 England

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Total investments 74
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 2.96
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.66

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Citymart

Business Intelligence
Government
GovTech
Procurement
SaaS
19 Mar 2018 New York, United States

Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Security
$2M02 Jun 2017 East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Cytox

Biotechnology
Genetics
$3M01 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, England

Skimlinks

Advertising
Content
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketing
11 Nov 2011 London, England, United Kingdom

Haemostatix

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
01 Aug 2011 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

CellNovo

Biotechnology
Diabetes
Health Care
Medical Device
$41M04 Feb 2011 Allerdale, England, United Kingdom

Kaptivo

Hardware
Meeting Software
Software
Video Conferencing
$13M11 Oct 2010 California, United States

BaseKit

Internet
Software
Telecommunications
Web Design
$2M15 Jun 2010 England

Veryan Medical

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$5M05 Apr 2010 England
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