Praetura Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Manchester, United Kingdom

Total investments

100

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

7.69

Lead investments

34

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSMedical

Summary

Praetura Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Manchester.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Praetura Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Praetura Ventures works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 66 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Praetura Ventures, startups are often financed by Qualcomm Ventures, NVM Private Equity, GReeN Investor Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NVM Private Equity, MMC Ventures, Shell Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NVM Private Equity, Seneca Partners, MMC Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Peak, EC3 Brokers Ltd, SteamaCo. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Energy. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by David Foreman, Michael Fletcher, Peadar Ou2019Reilly.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techAR/VRIoTEcommerceConsumer/Retail Show 9 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United Kingdom
Check size
64K — 6M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 15000000
Fund raised date
2022-09-20

Analytics

Total investments
100
Lead investments
34
Exits
3
Rounds per year
7.69
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (20)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • Health Care (17)
  • Financial Services (15)
  • SaaS (12)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (100)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
7M
Group Appearance index
0.50
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
AeroCloud Systems 21 Feb 2023 Air Transportation Early Stage Venture 12M England, Chester, United Kingdom
XR Games 16 Aug 2021 Virtual Reality, Video Games Seed 2M England, Leeds, United Kingdom

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