Piton Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

West End, United Kingdom

Total investments

109

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

49

Rounds per year

7.79

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.54

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveE-CommerceInternetSoftwareHuman ResourcesRecruitingHealth CareSaaSAppsMarketplace

Summary

Piton Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

This Piton Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Piton Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Piton Capital, startups are often financed by Cherry Ventures, RTAventures VC, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cherry Ventures, Vostok New Ventures, RTAventures VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Target Global, RTAventures VC, MMC Ventures.

The current fund was established by Andrin Bachmann, Greg Lockwood. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Marketplace. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Auto1 Group, ManoMano, Booksy.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceAI/Big DataB2B/Enterprise
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 36 more
Check size
From 248K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
109
Lead investments
18
Exits
10
Rounds per year
7.79
Follow on index
0.54
Investments by industry
  • Marketplace (31)
  • E-Commerce (27)
  • Internet (20)
  • Software (16)
  • Health Care (14)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (42)
  • United States (8)
  • France (8)
  • United Kingdom (17)
  • Poland (4)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
91M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.35
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

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