Simpleweb

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Bristol, United Kingdom

Total investments

25

Average round size

158K

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

1.56

Lead investments

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyPaymentsInformation ServicesFood and BeverageAppsMusicInternet of ThingsSustainability

Summary

Simpleweb is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2006. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Bristol.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50-100 thousands dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Simpleweb is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

The fund was created by Mark Panay, Tom Holder.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight W2 Global Data, OLIO. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Information Technology.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Simpleweb, startups are often financed by Seedrs, Downing Ventures, Pitch@Palace. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Collider. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Thorium Technology Investors, Quentin Griffiths, Quadia.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series ASeries B

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
8
Rounds per year
1.56
Investments by industry
  • Apps (5)
  • Software (5)
  • E-Commerce (5)
  • Food and Beverage (3)
  • Information Technology (2)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (22)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
233K
Group Appearance index
0.04

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Contactzilla 08 May 2012 Software, Human Resources, Contact Management, Social CRM Seed England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Ecommark 01 Feb 2022 E-Commerce, SaaS, E-Commerce Platforms Seed 3M

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