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SPARK VCT

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.42
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Collaboration
  • Business Information Systems
  • Enterprise
Summary

SPARK VCT appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Workshare, UniServity, Level Four Software The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Enterprise. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the SPARK VCT, startups are often financed by Quester Capital, Nesta Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Quester Capital, YFM Equity Partners, Sulis Innovation. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Parkwalk Advisors, Caledonia Investments, Wells Fargo Financial.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this SPARK VCT works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2007.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Celona Technologies

Business Information Systems
Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Software
$14M09 Jul 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Symetrica

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Security
$1M01 May 2007 United Kingdom, England

UniServity

Collaboration
E-Learning
Enterprise Software
$4M07 Mar 2007 United Kingdom, England

Workshare

B2B
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Document Management
Document Preparation
Enterprise Software
Legal Tech
Software
$23M18 Jan 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 8
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.42
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Celona Technologies

Business Information Systems
Enterprise
Enterprise Software
Software
$14M09 Jul 2007 London, England, United Kingdom

Symetrica

Biotechnology
Health Diagnostics
Security
$1M01 May 2007 United Kingdom, England

UniServity

Collaboration
E-Learning
Enterprise Software
$4M07 Mar 2007 United Kingdom, England

Workshare

B2B
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Document Management
Document Preparation
Enterprise Software
Legal Tech
Software
$23M18 Jan 2007 London, England, United Kingdom
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