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Pollen Street Capital

Founders Lindsey McMurray

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Total investments 46
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$62M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 4.18
Lead investments 21
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 12
Key employees 17

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • FinTech
  • Banking
  • Automotive
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

bunq

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$118M24 Jul 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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$3M09 Jun 2022 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

bunq

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$227M08 Jul 2021 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Jaja

Credit Cards
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$9M03 Sep 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
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European challenger bank Bunq raises $228 million at $1.9 billion valuation

– Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq raised $228m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Pollen Street Capital and joined by Bunq founder Ali Niknam.
– The company plans to use the funding to acquire smaller companies to fuel its growth strategy.

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Total investments 46
Average round size 62M
Rounds per year 4.18
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 21
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.22

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

bunq

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$118M24 Jul 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Reduced

$3M09 Jun 2022 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

bunq

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
$227M08 Jul 2021 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Jaja

Credit Cards
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$9M03 Sep 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
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