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The North West Fund

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Total investments 112
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$760K
Portfolio companies 82
Rounds per year 8.00
Lead investments 42
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 5
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Software
  • Medical Device
Summary

In 2010 was created The North West Fund, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Warrington.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Education. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Evgen Pharma, Ai2 UK, Playdemic Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the The North West Fund, startups are often financed by Northstar Ventures, AXM Venture Capital, Spark Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Ventures, MTI, 350 Investment Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Ventures, Mercia Technologies, MMC Ventures.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2012. This The North West Fund works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnXray

Electronics
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$1M18 Oct 2016 Liverpool

Traffic Observation via Management

Innovation Management
Network Security
Wireless
$479K04 Apr 2016 Liverpool

Collabco

Business/Productivity Software
Computer
Education
Enterprise Software
IT Consulting and Outsourcing
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Software
$616K12 Jan 2016 Liverpool

Gelmetix

Biotechnology
Commercial
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$4M01 Jan 2016 England

Document Direct

Legal
Professional Services
Recruiting
Service Industry
$411K17 Dec 2015 United Kingdom, Liverpool

Beatroot Music

Digital Entertainment
Music
Publishing
$342K02 Sep 2015 Memphis, Tennessee, United States

CynapseDx

Biotechnology
Life Science
$315K05 Aug 2015 Liverpool

Perfectus Biomed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$274K28 Apr 2015 England

Document Direct

Legal
Professional Services
Recruiting
Service Industry
$548K24 Mar 2015 Liverpool

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Total investments 112
Average round size 760K
Rounds per year 8.00
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 42
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.42

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnXray

Electronics
Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$1M18 Oct 2016 Liverpool

Traffic Observation via Management

Innovation Management
Network Security
Wireless
$479K04 Apr 2016 Liverpool

Collabco

Business/Productivity Software
Computer
Education
Enterprise Software
IT Consulting and Outsourcing
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Software
$616K12 Jan 2016 Liverpool

Gelmetix

Biotechnology
Commercial
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$4M01 Jan 2016 England

Document Direct

Legal
Professional Services
Recruiting
Service Industry
$411K17 Dec 2015 United Kingdom, Liverpool

Beatroot Music

Digital Entertainment
Music
Publishing
$342K02 Sep 2015 Memphis, Tennessee, United States

CynapseDx

Biotechnology
Life Science
$315K05 Aug 2015 Liverpool

Perfectus Biomed

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$274K28 Apr 2015 England

Document Direct

Legal
Professional Services
Recruiting
Service Industry
$548K24 Mar 2015 Liverpool
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