Potential VC

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Guildford, United Kingdom

Total investments

23

Average round size

296K

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

2.88

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

3

Areas of investment
Application SoftwareInformation Services (B2C)Human Capital ServicesSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesRecruitingAppsStaffing Agency

Summary

Potential VC is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Apps, Software. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline MindMate, Crehana, hackajob The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

This organization was formed by YC Ng. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Potential VC, startups are often financed by Northstar Ventures, Techstars, Ignite Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Steve Pankhurst, Downing Ventures, Doug Scott. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rethink Education, Northern Stars, Hambro Perks Ltd..

The top activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this Potential VC works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2020.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Community/Social networkHealthcareEdtechClimate techManufacturing

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
3
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.88
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Software (6)
  • Apps (5)
  • Analytics (4)
  • Recruiting (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (17)
  • United States (4)
  • Peru (1)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
445K
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
3Bears Foods 01 Jun 2017 Food and Beverage Seed 0 Germany, Munich, Bavaria
hackajob 31 Mar 2017 Application Software, Information Services (B2C), Human Capital Services, Software, Analytics, Information Technology, Human Resources, Recruiting, Staffing Agency Seed 637K England, London, United Kingdom
Libao 15 Jan 2023 Manufacturing, Battery Early Stage Venture 278M Sichuan, Gansu, China
Washbox 20 Aug 2014 Software, Consumer, CleanTech, Laundry and Dry-cleaning Seed 38K United Kingdom, England, Newcastle upon Tyne
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