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Smedvig Capital

Founders Johnny Hewett Peter Smedvig

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Total investments 71
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 2.54
Lead investments 28
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 11
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Advertising
  • Internet
  • Retail
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Minut

Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
$5M07 Dec 2023 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

DRUID

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Workforce
$30M12 Sep 2023 Bucharest, Romania

EdgeTier

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$7M12 Jun 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Lunio

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Fraud Detection
Marketing
Software
$19M29 Sep 2022 Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Mavenoid

Customer Service
Industrial Automation
Software
Technical Support
$30M31 Aug 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Heydoc

Health Care
Medical
Software
$8M28 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

proSapient

Consulting
Market Research
SaaS
$10M18 Jan 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Restaurants
SaaS
$10M29 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Spirable

SaaS
Video
$8M05 Sep 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 71
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 2.54
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 28
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 11
Group Appearance index 0.28

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Minut

Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
$5M07 Dec 2023 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

DRUID

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
Virtual Workforce
$30M12 Sep 2023 Bucharest, Romania

EdgeTier

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$7M12 Jun 2023 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Lunio

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Fraud Detection
Marketing
Software
$19M29 Sep 2022 Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Mavenoid

Customer Service
Industrial Automation
Software
Technical Support
$30M31 Aug 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Heydoc

Health Care
Medical
Software
$8M28 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

proSapient

Consulting
Market Research
SaaS
$10M18 Jan 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Analytics
Big Data
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Restaurants
SaaS
$10M29 Jan 2020 London, England, United Kingdom

Spirable

SaaS
Video
$8M05 Sep 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
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