Tesco

Total investments

5

Average round size

71M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.05

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

1

Areas of investment
AutomotiveInfrastructureE-CommerceSoftwareRetailArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAerospaceProfessional ServicesComputer

Summary

In 1919 was created Tesco, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Welwyn Garden City.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Fashion, Shopping. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lazada Group. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Singapore.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Tesco, startups are often financed by TEV | Tengelmann Ventures, Summit Partners, Verlinvest. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Verlinvest, Kinnevik AB, Access Industries. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Alibaba Group, Verlinvest, Temasek Holdings.

The fund was created by Jack Cohen. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The top activity for fund was in 2013. When the investment is from Tesco the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.05
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (3)
  • Retail (3)
  • Infrastructure (2)
  • Automotive (1)
  • Aerospace (1)
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Investments by region
  • Singapore (1)
  • Israel (3)
  • France (1)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.60
Avg. company exit year
19
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Trigo 21 Dec 2020 Infrastructure, Retail, Artificial Intelligence Early Stage Venture 60M Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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