Piper Private Equity

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

30

Average round size

9M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

0.79

Lead investments

22

Follow on index

0.03

Exits

10

Areas of investment
E-CommerceRetailFood and BeverageFood ProcessingFitnessHealth CareRestaurantsFashionNutritionPet

Summary

In 1985 was created Piper Private Equity, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The fund has no exact preference in some 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. 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 Pet Food UK, Flat Iron, Bloom & Wild. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Restaurants, Fitness.

The current fund was established by Crispin Tweddell, Libby Gibson. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Piper Private Equity works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 59 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Piper Private Equity, startups are often financed by Beringea, Venrex Investment Management, Upscale. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Winona Capital Management, Mobeus Equity Partners, MMC Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Santander Corporate & Commercial, Norwest Equity Partners (NEP).

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 7 more
Check size
6M — 25M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
22
Exits
10
Rounds per year
0.79
Follow on index
0.03
Investments by industry
  • Food and Beverage (8)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Fashion (6)
  • Food Processing (6)
  • Restaurants (5)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (26)
  • Italy (1)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
20M
Group Appearance index
0.17
Avg. company exit year
23
Avg. multiplicator
4.39

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mindful Chef 07 Jan 2019 Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Food Delivery, Cooking Early Stage Venture 8M England, London, United Kingdom
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