Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Total investments

91

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

86

Rounds per year

9.10

Lead investments

34

Follow on index

0.05

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageHealth CareSaaSManufacturingMedicalEnergyIndustrial Engineering

Summary

In 2014 was created Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Sheffield.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pimberly, ITS Technology Group, MicroBioSensor. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Computer, Information Technology.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Volker Hirsch, Seneca Partners, SBRI Healthcare. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NPIF u2013 Mercia Equity Finance, Mercia Technologies, Maven Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Shadow Foundr, Praetura Ventures, Northern Stars.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. This Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund is 5-10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Check size
32K — 6M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
91
Lead investments
34
Exits
1
Rounds per year
9.10
Follow on index
0.05
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Manufacturing (13)
  • Health Care (9)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Food and Beverage (8)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (88)
  • Germany (1)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
345K
Group Appearance index
0.36
Avg. company exit year
35

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Latest deals

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