Smedvig Capital
72
7M
40
2.57
28
0.44
11
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Smedvig Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.
The high activity for fund was in 2008. This Smedvig Capital works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.
The current fund was established by Johnny Hewett, Peter Smedvig. Besides them, we counted 14 critical employees of this fund in our database.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LoveSpace, Veeve, The Smart Cube. 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 Enterprise Software, Market Research.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Smedvig Capital, startups are often financed by Creandum, Octopus Ventures, Beringea. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Revolt Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Octopus Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Sarah Cannon.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 72
- Lead investments
- 28
- Exits
- 11
- Rounds per year
- 2.57
- Follow on index
- 0.44
- Investments by industry
- Software (12)
- Information Technology (11)
- Advertising (9)
- Internet (8)
- Retail (8) Show 94 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (52)
- Sweden (5)
- United States (7)
- Romania (1)
- Netherlands (4) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2008
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 15
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 6M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.29
- Avg. company exit year
- 16
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.61
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eat Blueprint | 23 Mar 2021 | Seed | 125K | United States, California, San Francisco | |
| Mediamorph | 11 Sep 2014 | Information Technology, Payments, Enterprise Software, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment | Early Stage Venture | 13M | United States, New York, New York |
| Minut | 07 Dec 2023 | Security, Internet of Things, Smart Home | Early Stage Venture | 5M | Skåne County, Malmo, Sweden |
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