The North West Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Warrington, United Kingdom

Total investments

112

Average round size

760K

Portfolio companies

82

Rounds per year

8.00

Lead investments

42

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalPharmaceutical

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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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistClimate techEnergyBiotech/Life SciencesMedia/Content
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Check size
32K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 155000000

Analytics

Total investments
112
Lead investments
42
Exits
5
Rounds per year
8.00
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (27)
  • Biotechnology (25)
  • Pharmaceutical (12)
  • Software (12)
  • Medical Device (11)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (109)
  • Finland (1)
  • United States (1)
  • Ireland (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
81K
Group Appearance index
0.42
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Albert Medical Devices 08 Apr 2014 Health Care, Hospital, Manufacturing Late Stage Venture 1M England, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Grande 01 May 2017 E-Commerce, Marketplace Seed 40K Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ulemco 04 Jul 2014 Automotive, Manufacturing, Industrial Seed 205K Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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