Porton Group

Total investments

13

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.46

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveHealth CareAppsManufacturingMedical DeviceElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyChemicalFuel Cell

Summary

Porton Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in Asia in United Arab Emirates. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Dubai.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Porton Group, startups are often financed by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Oxford Technology Management, Development Bank of Wales. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Oxford Technology Management, Development Bank of Wales. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Unilever Ventures, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Swarraton Partners.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline P2i, Psynova Neurotech, Warwick Acoustics Ltd Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Manufacturing.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2011.

This organization was formed by Harvey Boulter.

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Analytics

Total investments
13
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (8)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Medical Device (5)
  • Electronics (4)
  • Automotive (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (13)
Peak activity year
2010

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Group Appearance index
0.77

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Microvisk Technologies 09 Sep 2010 Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device Early Stage Venture 3M Wales, St Asaph, United Kingdom

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