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The London Fund

Founders Ashesh Shah Palle Pedersen

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.58
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 4
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Human Resources
  • Internet
  • Recruiting
  • Analytics
  • Information Technology
Summary

The London Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the Mayfair. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Psychology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight EdCast, Good&Co, Plej. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 2 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the The London Fund, startups are often financed by Techstars, The Smart Start Fund, Techstars Boston Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Talent Equity Ventures (TEqV), Norwest Venture Partners, Cloud Power Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upslope Ventures, Upfront Ventures, The Chernin Group.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this The London Fund works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments.

The current fund was established by Ashesh Shah, Palle Pedersen. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hulah

Apps
Internet
Social Network
$3M01 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Engin Sciences

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$2M31 Dec 2021 New York, New York, United States

Akerna Corp

Information Technology
Service Industry
$9M12 Jun 2019 Denver, Colorado, United States

EdCast

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Mobile
SaaS
$33M06 Dec 2018 Mountain View, California, United States

solo sciences inc

Computer Vision
Security
Software
$3M20 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Good&Co

Analytics
Big Data
Human Resources
Internet
Psychology
Recruiting
Social Media
$750K01 May 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Good&Co

Analytics
Big Data
Human Resources
Internet
Psychology
Recruiting
Social Media
$1M12 Nov 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

DRAFT

American Football
Analytics
Basketball
Fantasy Sports
Finance
FinTech
Gaming
Golf
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Personal Finance
Soccer
Sports
Wealth Management
$600K14 Feb 2011 New York, New York, United States

Plej

Payments
Software
$2M21 Oct 2003 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 0.58
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.45

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hulah

Apps
Internet
Social Network
$3M01 Nov 2022 Los Angeles, California, United States

Engin Sciences

Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Recruiting
SaaS
Software
$2M31 Dec 2021 New York, New York, United States

Akerna Corp

Information Technology
Service Industry
$9M12 Jun 2019 Denver, Colorado, United States

EdCast

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Mobile
SaaS
$33M06 Dec 2018 Mountain View, California, United States

solo sciences inc

Computer Vision
Security
Software
$3M20 Aug 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Good&Co

Analytics
Big Data
Human Resources
Internet
Psychology
Recruiting
Social Media
$750K01 May 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Good&Co

Analytics
Big Data
Human Resources
Internet
Psychology
Recruiting
Social Media
$1M12 Nov 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

DRAFT

American Football
Analytics
Basketball
Fantasy Sports
Finance
FinTech
Gaming
Golf
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Personal Finance
Soccer
Sports
Wealth Management
$600K14 Feb 2011 New York, New York, United States

Plej

Payments
Software
$2M21 Oct 2003 Newton, Massachusetts, United States

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