NIF Ventures

Total investments

40

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

28

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

16

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingMedicalHardwareElectronicsOptical Communication

Summary

The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this NIF Ventures performs on 13 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from NIF Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2001.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vpacket Communications, Accelight Networks, Netcontinuum. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the NIF Ventures, startups are often financed by 3i Group, Gimv, Scottish Equity Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gimv, 3i Group, Yasuda Enterprise Development. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Yasuda Enterprise Development, The Cambridge Gateway Fund, TVM Capital.

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Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
2
Exits
16
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Biotechnology (9)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Electronics (9)
  • Medical (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • Italy (1)
  • France (1)
  • Japan (3)
Peak activity year
2001

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
46M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.12
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bleexy 06 Jan 2020 E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management, Collaboration, Product Management, Marketplace, Blockchain, E-Commerce Platforms Seed 250K United States, Virginia
Elixent 06 Apr 2005 Hardware, Semiconductor, Electronics Late Stage Venture 15M England, Bristol, United Kingdom
HENNGE 14 Feb 2001 Information Technology Late Stage Venture Chiyoda, Japan

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