Nesta Ventures
74
3M
39
2.96
3
0.47
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 74
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 2.96
- Follow on index
- 0.47
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (27)
- Software (18)
- Medical (17)
- Health Care (15)
- Medical Device (13) Show 67 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (63)
- United States (10)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 15
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.66
- Avg. company exit year
- 12
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.24
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodmeetings | 01 Jun 2023 | Seed | Karnataka, Bengaluru, India | ||
| Skimlinks | 11 Nov 2011 | E-Commerce, Internet, Content, Marketing, Advertising | Early Stage Venture | England, London, United Kingdom | |
| 01 Dec 2002 | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise, Data Center | Seed | England, London, United Kingdom |
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