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Redbus Group

Founders Simon Franks

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Total investments 35
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.30
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 2
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Consumer
  • FinTech
  • Health Care
  • Mobile Payments
  • Payments
Summary

Redbus Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. 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.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cardiac Dimensions, Ouster, Purpose Global. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Subscription Service, Employment. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Comparing to the other companies, this Redbus Group performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Redbus Group, startups are often financed by Structure Capital, Simon Franks, Itamar Novick. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Carthona Capital, Alexander Edward Chesterman, Zennstru00f6m Philanthropies. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Carthona Capital, Lumira Ventures, Draper Esprit.

The fund was created by Simon Franks. The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kavida.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Supply Chain Management
$1M07 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Roots Allotments

Agriculture
Forestry
Natural Resources
01 Jan 2023 Bristol, South West, United Kingdom

Wild

$6M17 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Trilo

Consumer
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
17 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

HolidayFox

B2C
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Search Engine
Travel
Travel Agency
$1M18 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

DeferIt

Billing
FinTech
Payments
$10M26 Mar 2021 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Webiny

Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Web Development
$3M24 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Oto Health

Apps
Health Care
Therapeutics
23 Feb 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Imperium Drive

$990K01 Jan 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 35
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 1.30
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.46

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kavida.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Supply Chain Management
$1M07 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Roots Allotments

Agriculture
Forestry
Natural Resources
01 Jan 2023 Bristol, South West, United Kingdom

Wild

$6M17 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Trilo

Consumer
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
17 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

HolidayFox

B2C
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Search Engine
Travel
Travel Agency
$1M18 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

DeferIt

Billing
FinTech
Payments
$10M26 Mar 2021 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Webiny

Developer Platform
Developer Tools
Web Development
$3M24 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Oto Health

Apps
Health Care
Therapeutics
23 Feb 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Imperium Drive

$990K01 Jan 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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