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Penta Capital

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$20M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.43
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 5
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Web Hosting
  • Data Center
  • Cloud Data Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
Summary

Penta Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Retail, Web Hosting. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Global Risk Partners, Six Degrees Group, CellPoint Mobile The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Penta Capital, startups are often financed by Clydesdale Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Toscafund Asset Management, Souter Investments, Maven Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Royal Bank of Scotland, MetLife, Lloyds Bank.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The real fund results show that this VC is 69 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Penta Capital works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Six Degrees Group

Cloud Data Services
Data Center
Web Hosting
$10M26 Jul 2012 England

Six Degrees Group

Cloud Data Services
Data Center
Web Hosting
$82M10 Oct 2011 United Kingdom, London

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Total investments 10
Average round size 20M
Rounds per year 0.43
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.40

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Six Degrees Group

Cloud Data Services
Data Center
Web Hosting
$10M26 Jul 2012 England

Six Degrees Group

Cloud Data Services
Data Center
Web Hosting
$82M10 Oct 2011 United Kingdom, London
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