The Ingenious Group

Total investments

9

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.39

Lead investments

5

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsB2BSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingProduct DesignSemiconductorGreenTechSimulation

Summary

In 1998 was created The Ingenious Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the The Ingenious Group, startups are often financed by Niklas Eklund, Mustard Seed, D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mustard Seed, Ingka Group, D-Ax Corporate Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by European Investment Bank (EIB).

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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Information Technology. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Over-C, Winnow.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
5
Rounds per year
0.39
Investments by industry
  • Software (3)
  • SaaS (2)
  • Semiconductor (1)
  • Product Design (1)
  • Manufacturing (1)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Norway (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.56

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Switchee 20 Mar 2020 Consumer Electronics, Energy Efficiency Early Stage Venture 3M England, London, United Kingdom
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