Pentech Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Total investments

81

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

3.68

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

14

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareAdvertising

Summary

In 2001 was created Pentech Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Edinburgh. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Security. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Velocix, GTN, FloodFlash.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Pentech Ventures, startups are often financed by Scottish Investment Bank, Amadeus Capital Partners, The Cambridge Gateway Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scottish Investment Bank, Amadeus Capital Partners, Herald Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Investment Bank, Amadeus Capital Partners, Piton Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Pentech Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Pentech Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

This organization was formed by Eddie Anderson. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series BSeries ASeed
Geo focus
United Kingdom

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
81
Lead investments
16
Exits
14
Rounds per year
3.68
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (30)
  • Information Technology (21)
  • Artificial Intelligence (18)
  • Machine Learning (17)
  • Analytics (16)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (62)
  • United States (10)
  • Ireland (3)
  • Belgium (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
37M
Group Appearance index
0.93
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.19

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
An Estuary 02 Dec 2013 Software, Analytics, Corporate Training Seed 100K United States, Maryland, Baltimore
Causaly 13 Jul 2023 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Semantic Search Early Stage Venture 63M England, London, United Kingdom
Vauban 26 Nov 2021 Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Legal Tech Seed 6M England, London, United Kingdom

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