Souter Investments

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Total investments

44

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

2.44

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
TransportationSoftwareFinancial ServicesRetailInformation TechnologyManufacturingInsuranceConstructionTelecommunicationsService Industry

Summary

In 2006 was created Souter Investments, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Edinburgh.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Retail, Energy. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Global Risk Partners, CoachHire.com, Neoss Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Souter Investments, startups are often financed by MM Venture Partners, ePlanet Capital, Virgin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ePlanet Capital, MMC Ventures, Hermes Growth Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ePlanet Capital, MMC Ventures, Hermes Growth Partners.

This organization was formed by Brian Souter. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Souter Investments works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2014.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistConsumer/RetailEdtechFintechHealthcare Show 6 more
Check size
3M — 38M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
44
Lead investments
3
Exits
15
Rounds per year
2.44
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Transportation (7)
  • Insurance (5)
  • Financial Services (5)
  • Telecommunications (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (33)
  • Australia (1)
  • Colombia (2)
  • New Zealand (2)
  • Finland (2)
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Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.30
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
1.36

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cardo Group 07 May 2023 Construction, Building Maintenance, Recreation Seed England, London, United Kingdom

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