Pentland Brands

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

12

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.13

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareOnline PortalsHealth CareElectronic Health Record (EHR)LifestyleFashionPrice ComparisonHousekeeping Service

Summary

Pentland Brands appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1932. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Pentland Brands, startups are often financed by VTF Capital, Summit Partners, Silicon Valley Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VTF Capital, Summit Partners, Sands Capital Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Summit Partners, Warburg Pincus, VTF Capital.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Price Comparison, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OrderWithMe, Hazy, Stedi. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Pentland Brands performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.13
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Health Care (3)
  • Electronic Health Record (EHR) (3)
  • Internet (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • United Kingdom (5)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
41M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
1

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