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Scottish Investment Bank

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Total investments 368
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 164
Rounds per year 11.15
Lead investments 36
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.55
Exits 22
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Scottish Investment Bank appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1991. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Glasgow.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Boundary, Bio-Images Drug Delivery, UWI Technology Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Software. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The average startup value when the investment from Scottish Investment Bank is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Scottish Investment Bank performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Scottish Investment Bank, startups are often financed by Pentech Ventures, Braveheart Investment Group, Old College Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pentech Ventures, Mercia Fund Managers, Sigma Capital Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Enterprise, Pentech Ventures, Braveheart Investment Group.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Shot Scope

Customer Service
Golf
Sports
Wearables
Web Development
$3M13 Dec 2022 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

3fbio

3D Technology
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Information Services
Information Technology
$49M20 Jun 2021 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Boundary

Cyber Security
Internet
Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
$5M26 May 2021 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Cyan Forensics

Computer
Security
Software
$6M29 Mar 2021 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Zumo

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$3M26 Nov 2020 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mocean Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$838K18 Nov 2020 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

ClinSpec Diagnostics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
$3M07 Sep 2020 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sunamp

Automotive
Energy
Renewable Energy
$6M10 Aug 2020 United Kingdom, Scotland

Quorum Cyber

Cyber Security
Information Technology
$3M21 Jul 2020 United Kingdom, Scotland
News
Red61 Secures £1.4M in Funding

– Red61 is a Ticketing-as-a-Service provider based in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
– Company secured £1.4m in funding.
– The round was led by venture capitalists Par Equity in partnership with the Scottish Investment Bank.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate time to market delivery; development of their product vision and continued support of ongoing global client acquisitions.

Alba Orbital’s mission to image the Earth every 15 minutes brings in $3.4M seed round

– Alba Orbital, a Scottish company, raised $3.4m funding.
– The round was led by Scottish Investment Bank and joined by other investors.
– The company plans to launch dozens more satellites.

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Total investments 368
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 11.15
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 36
Follow on index 0.55
Exits 22
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Shot Scope

Customer Service
Golf
Sports
Wearables
Web Development
$3M13 Dec 2022 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

3fbio

3D Technology
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Information Services
Information Technology
$49M20 Jun 2021 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Boundary

Cyber Security
Internet
Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
$5M26 May 2021 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Cyan Forensics

Computer
Security
Software
$6M29 Mar 2021 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Zumo

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$3M26 Nov 2020 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mocean Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$838K18 Nov 2020 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

ClinSpec Diagnostics

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Machine Learning
$3M07 Sep 2020 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sunamp

Automotive
Energy
Renewable Energy
$6M10 Aug 2020 United Kingdom, Scotland

Quorum Cyber

Cyber Security
Information Technology
$3M21 Jul 2020 United Kingdom, Scotland
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