South Yorkshire Investment Fund

Total investments

12

Average round size

869K

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.08

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareHealth CareAppsManufacturingMarketingSocial MediaAdvertisingiOS

Summary

South Yorkshire Investment Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Dodworth.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Semiconductor, Advertising. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Phase Focus, CellTran. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2008. The high activity for fund was in 2007. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this South Yorkshire Investment Fund performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the South Yorkshire Investment Fund, startups are often financed by Spirit Capital Partners, Fusion IP, YFM Equity Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ventures, Yorkshire Association of Business Angels, Ridings Early Growth Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Ombu Group, Nesta Ventures.

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Analytics

Total investments
12
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.08
Investments by industry
  • Marketing (4)
  • Advertising (3)
  • Internet (3)
  • Software (2)
  • Biotechnology (2)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (12)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
11M
Group Appearance index
0.42
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
19.09

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kaos Solutions 01 Jan 2008 Software Seed 199K England, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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