Redbus Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

33

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.22

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

2

Areas of investment
FinTechAnalyticsConsumerPaymentsArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareWellnessMobile PaymentsMarketplacePredictive Analytics

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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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United Kingdom

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.22
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Consumer (5)
  • Health Care (4)
  • FinTech (4)
  • Mobile Payments (4)
  • Marketplace (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (5)
  • United Kingdom (26)
Peak activity year
2023

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
36M
Group Appearance index
0.45

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
HolidayFox 18 Aug 2021 E-Commerce, Travel, Search Engine, E-Commerce Platforms, B2C, Travel Agency Seed 1M England, London, United Kingdom
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