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Reuters Venture Capital

Founders John Taysom

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.14
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.06
Exits 21
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • E-Commerce
  • Security
Summary

In 1994 was created Reuters Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WebEx, Lavastorm, ON24. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, News.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Reuters Venture Capital works on 32 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2000. The typical startup value when the investment from Reuters Venture Capital is 10-50 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Reuters Venture Capital, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Mitsubishi Corporation, Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Reuters, Goldman Sachs, 3i Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Grey Ventures, GE Equity.

This organization was formed by John Taysom.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ExoAtlet

Mechanical Engineering
Rehabilitation
Robotics
$224K18 Nov 2015 Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia

BitPipe

E-Commerce
Education
Freemium
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
News
Software
$3M02 Apr 2004 Massachusetts, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$8M17 Nov 2003 New York, New York, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
12 Aug 2003 New York, United States

Sphera Corporation

Developer Platform
Software
Web Hosting
$20M17 Jan 2002 Denver, Colorado, United States

UltraDNS

Business Development
Identity Management
Information Technology
Internet
Security
$25M02 Jan 2001 California, United States

Epoch

Internet
Payments
Service Industry
$40M02 Oct 2000 Santa Monica, California, United States

Macalla

Mobile
Payments
Web Development
$10M15 Sep 2000 County Dublin

Lavastorm

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$45M18 Jul 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 32
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 1.14
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.06
Exits 21
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ExoAtlet

Mechanical Engineering
Rehabilitation
Robotics
$224K18 Nov 2015 Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast, Russia

BitPipe

E-Commerce
Education
Freemium
Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
News
Software
$3M02 Apr 2004 Massachusetts, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
$8M17 Nov 2003 New York, New York, United States

Visible World

Advertising
Marketing
TV
12 Aug 2003 New York, United States

Sphera Corporation

Developer Platform
Software
Web Hosting
$20M17 Jan 2002 Denver, Colorado, United States

UltraDNS

Business Development
Identity Management
Information Technology
Internet
Security
$25M02 Jan 2001 California, United States

Epoch

Internet
Payments
Service Industry
$40M02 Oct 2000 Santa Monica, California, United States

Macalla

Mobile
Payments
Web Development
$10M15 Sep 2000 County Dublin

Lavastorm

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Software
$45M18 Jul 2000 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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