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Samos Investments

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Total investments 57
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 43
Rounds per year 3.80
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
  • Health Care
  • Software
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jude

Health Care
$4M03 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

VIEVE

Beauty
$1M04 Nov 2022 Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Jude

Health Care
$2M07 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Credrails

Financial Services
FinTech
$2M21 Feb 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Flair Impact

Analytics
Internet
$1M01 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Yela

Internet
Social Media
$2M03 Aug 2021 Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Ruka

Beauty
E-Commerce
Retail
$2M25 May 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Lick Home

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$3M04 Aug 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Lick Home

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$1M03 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 57
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 3.80
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jude

Health Care
$4M03 Sep 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

VIEVE

Beauty
$1M04 Nov 2022 Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Jude

Health Care
$2M07 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Credrails

Financial Services
FinTech
$2M21 Feb 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Flair Impact

Analytics
Internet
$1M01 Dec 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Yela

Internet
Social Media
$2M03 Aug 2021 Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Ruka

Beauty
E-Commerce
Retail
$2M25 May 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Lick Home

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$3M04 Aug 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Lick Home

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
$1M03 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
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