Sprints Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

28

Average round size

124M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

2.80

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private EquityLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechPaymentsFinanceSaaSMarketplaceFashion

Summary

In 2014 was created Sprints Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Search Engine, Social Media. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Revolut, Chrono24, Vinted. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Sprints Capital, startups are often financed by Insight Partners, Accel, Venkat Srinivasan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Insight Partners, Socii Capital, Ribbit Capital.

This organization was formed by Filip Hedin, Henrik Persson, Pierre Siri. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Sprints Capital works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Sprints Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 36 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 593000000
Fund raised date
2022-01-20

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
7
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.80
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (9)
  • Marketplace (9)
  • Payments (8)
  • FinTech (8)
  • E-Commerce (8)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Lithuania (4)
  • France (1)
  • United States (4)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
18
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Planhat 21 Apr 2022 SaaS, CRM, Customer Service Early Stage Venture 50M Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden

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