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Scottish Equity Partners

Founders Calum Paterson Gary Le Sueur Stuart Paterson

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Total investments 170
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 100
Rounds per year 7.08
Lead investments 25
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 49
Key employees 12
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Energy
  • Biotechnology
  • Mobile
  • Manufacturing
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Braincube

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$97M29 Nov 2023 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Tyk

Computer
Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Software
$35M15 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

LoveCrafts

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Mobile
Social
$35M24 Apr 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

SportPursuit

E-Commerce
Retail
Sports
$13M22 Nov 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Babble

News
Parenting
$22M08 Jul 2015 New York, New York, United States

Abcodia

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$7M18 May 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Intelligent Reach

Advertising
Analytics
E-Commerce
Marketing
Shopping
$2M27 Sep 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Powervation

Hardware
Semiconductor
Software
$5M12 Feb 2014 San Jose, California, United States

CYBERHAWK Innovations

Industrial
Oil and Gas
Robotics
$1M24 Jun 2013 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Total investments 170
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 7.08
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 25
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 49
Group Appearance index 0.59

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Braincube

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$97M29 Nov 2023 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Tyk

Computer
Developer APIs
Enterprise Software
Software
$35M15 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

LoveCrafts

E-Commerce
Marketplace
Mobile
Social
$35M24 Apr 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

SportPursuit

E-Commerce
Retail
Sports
$13M22 Nov 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Babble

News
Parenting
$22M08 Jul 2015 New York, New York, United States

Abcodia

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
$7M18 May 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Intelligent Reach

Advertising
Analytics
E-Commerce
Marketing
Shopping
$2M27 Sep 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

Powervation

Hardware
Semiconductor
Software
$5M12 Feb 2014 San Jose, California, United States

CYBERHAWK Innovations

Industrial
Oil and Gas
Robotics
$1M24 Jun 2013 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom
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