Saffron Hill Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

20

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.91

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileManufacturingElectronicsRenewable EnergySustainabilityTextilesRecycling

Summary

In 2000 was created Saffron Hill Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The current fund was established by Ranjeet Bhatia, Shawn Luetchens. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Textiles, Mobile. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CXignited, QuesCom, Optasia Medical The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. When the investment is from Saffron Hill Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Saffron Hill Ventures performs on 0 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Saffron Hill Ventures, startups are often financed by Spectrum Equity, Endeavour Vision, Amadeus Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Endeavour Vision, Elliott Management Corp., Draper Esprit. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Stuart Mill Venture Partners, Point Financial, Inc., Endeavour Vision.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailClimate tech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 38 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
0
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.91
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Software (6)
  • Information Technology (6)
  • Electronics (4)
  • Textiles (4)
  • Sustainability (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (12)
  • Norway (4)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • France (2)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
0.43

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CXignited 26 May 2006 Information Technology, Electronics, RFID, Textiles Late Stage Venture 35M United States, New York, New York

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