Techstart Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Belfast, United Kingdom

Total investments

156

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

94

Rounds per year

15.60

Lead investments

45

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareManufacturingElectronics

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Belfast. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Techstart Ventures, startups are often financed by Pitch@Palace, Angel CoFund, Techstars Austin Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Clarendon Fund Managers, Co-FundNI, Angel CoFund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Clarendon Fund Managers, Pitch@Palace, Co-FundNI.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Information Technology. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight axial3D, Neurovalens. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Techstart Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Techstart Ventures performs on 27 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseRoboticsIoTAI/Big Data Show 8 more
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Geo focus

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
156
Lead investments
45
Exits
3
Rounds per year
15.60
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (41)
  • Health Care (22)
  • Information Technology (20)
  • Manufacturing (14)
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (140)
  • Norway (1)
  • Ireland (5)
  • United States (3)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
390K
Group Appearance index
0.59
Avg. company exit year
8

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Gigged.AI 16 Jan 2023 Software, Computer Seed 2M Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Neurovalens 20 Jul 2020 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science Early Stage Venture 6M Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom

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