Oxford University Innovation
Accelerator/Incubator
Active
Oxford, United Kingdom
65
3M
55
1.76
2
0.15
3
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 1987 was created Oxford University Innovation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Oxford. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Medical, Information Technology. 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 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Genomics, Oxford MEStar, GYANA.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Oxford University Innovation, startups are often financed by Oxford Sciences Innovation, Parkwalk Advisors, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Parkwalk Advisors, Oxford Investment Consultants LLP, IP Group Plc. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Sciences Innovation, Innovate UK, IP Group Plc.
The overall number of key employees were 10.
This Oxford University Innovation works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Oxford University Innovation is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 65
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 1.76
- Follow on index
- 0.15
- Investments by industry
- Software (25)
- Artificial Intelligence (17)
- Biotechnology (13)
- Health Care (11)
- Machine Learning (11) Show 94 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (60)
- Netherlands (1)
- Canada (1)
- United States (2)
- Switzerland (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 2M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.49
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CryoLogyx | 18 Mar 2024 | Seed | 685K | Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom | |
| OxCEPT | 30 Jan 2014 | Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security | Seed | 342K | British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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