Samos Investments
Venture Capital
Active
London, United Kingdom
57
3M
43
3.80
13
0.25
4
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Samos Investments, startups are often financed by Passion Capital, LocalGlobe, Force Over Mass Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Passion Capital, LocalGlobe, Entrepreneur First. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by LocalGlobe, Upscale, Felix Capital.
Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Analytics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Signal AI, Second Home, Emoticast
The typical startup value when the investment from Samos Investments is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Samos Investments works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2016.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 57
- Lead investments
- 13
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 3.80
- Follow on index
- 0.25
- Investments by industry
- E-Commerce (14)
- SaaS (12)
- Analytics (11)
- Health Care (11)
- Software (9) Show 88 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (53)
- Spain (2)
- Kenya (1)
- United States (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2016
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 35M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.75
- Avg. company exit year
- 6
- Strategy success index
- 0.10
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Flair Impact | 01 Dec 2021 | Internet, Analytics | Seed | 1M | England, London, United Kingdom |
Jude | 03 Sep 2023 | Health Care | Seed | 4M | England, London, United Kingdom |
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