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SMH Venture Finance Limited

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$996K
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 0.77
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 7
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Hardware
  • Manufacturing
  • Messaging
Summary

SMH Venture Finance Limited is the famous VC, which was founded in 1982.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the SMH Venture Finance Limited, startups are often financed by YFM Equity Partners, White Rose Technology Seedcorn Fund, Innovate UK. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alliance Trust, Yorkshire Association of Business Angels, YFM Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by YFM Equity Partners, White Rose Technology Seedcorn Fund, The ERA Foundation.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this SMH Venture Finance Limited performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2008. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ProVision Communications, CellTran, Mtivity. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Information Technology.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

New Net Technologies

Compliance
Information Technology
Security
Software
$196K19 Feb 2010 Naples, Florida, United States

Paraytec

Hardware
Manufacturing
$1M08 Dec 2008 Heslington, York, United Kingdom

Sports
$295K04 Dec 2008 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Messaging
Mobile
Telecommunications
$494K02 Jun 2008 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

CMS Global Technologies

Automotive
Information Technology
Mobile
Software
$589K28 May 2008 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

ProVision Communications

Hardware
Software
$1M23 Jan 2008 United Kingdom, England

Mtivity

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$7M23 Jul 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Document Management
Software
$1M17 Jul 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Mirifice

Software
$1M02 Jul 2007 Bath, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 30
Average round size 996K
Rounds per year 0.77
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.27

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

New Net Technologies

Compliance
Information Technology
Security
Software
$196K19 Feb 2010 Naples, Florida, United States

Paraytec

Hardware
Manufacturing
$1M08 Dec 2008 Heslington, York, United Kingdom

Sports
$295K04 Dec 2008 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Messaging
Mobile
Telecommunications
$494K02 Jun 2008 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

CMS Global Technologies

Automotive
Information Technology
Mobile
Software
$589K28 May 2008 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

ProVision Communications

Hardware
Software
$1M23 Jan 2008 United Kingdom, England

Mtivity

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$7M23 Jul 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Document Management
Software
$1M17 Jul 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Mirifice

Software
$1M02 Jul 2007 Bath, England, United Kingdom
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