Pollen Street Capital

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

41

Average round size

61M

Portfolio companies

35

Rounds per year

3.73

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

11

Areas of investment
AutomotiveReal EstateTransportationFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceSmall and Medium BusinessesBankingLendingLeasing

Summary

In 2013 was created Pollen Street Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The current fund was established by Lindsey McMurray. Besides them, we counted 17 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Pollen Street Capital performs on 9 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Pollen Street Capital, startups are often financed by Victory Park Capital, Summit Action, Shawbrook Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shawbrook Bank, TriplePoint Venture Growth, Silverstripe International Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NIBC Bank N.V., Celeres Investments, Silverstripe International Holdings.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hospital, Lending. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. 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 West Creek, Capital on Tap, Lending Works For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
41
Lead investments
16
Exits
11
Rounds per year
3.73
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (22)
  • FinTech (12)
  • Finance (11)
  • Banking (7)
  • Automotive (5)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (30)
  • The Netherlands (3)
  • United States (3)
  • Canada (1)
  • Denmark (1)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
334M
Group Appearance index
0.24
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
10.79
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
bunq 24 Jul 2023 Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Early Stage Venture 118M Noord-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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