Scottish Equity Partners

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

170

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

100

Rounds per year

7.08

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

49

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingProduct DesignTelecommunicationsEnergy

Summary

In 2000 was created Scottish Equity Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Glasgow.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, Mobile. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CSR, Skyscanner, BioVex The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

This organization was formed by Calum Paterson, Gary Le Sueur, Stuart Paterson. Besides them, we counted 12 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this Scottish Equity Partners performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Scottish Equity Partners is 100-500 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Scottish Equity Partners, startups are often financed by 3i Group, Atlas Venture, Pond Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Atlas Venture, VentureTech Alliance, Target Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, 3i Group, Clydesdale Bank.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series CSeries DSeries E
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 36 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
170
Lead investments
25
Exits
49
Rounds per year
7.08
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (49)
  • Energy (21)
  • Biotechnology (20)
  • Mobile (20)
  • Manufacturing (19)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (127)
  • United States (21)
  • France (3)
  • Germany (8)
  • Ireland (4)
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Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
62M
Group Appearance index
0.59
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
2.96
Strategy success index
0.40

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