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The Royal Bank of Scotland

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Total investments 49
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$103M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 13
Key employees 18
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
Summary

The Royal Bank of Scotland is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1727. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Edinburgh. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Royal Bank of Scotland, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Graphite Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Barclays PLC, Scottish Equity Partners, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Spark Ventures, Barclays PLC, Societe Generale.

We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 22 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this The Royal Bank of Scotland works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 16-20 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Orchard Street Investment Management, UKFast, ClearBank For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Banking.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$50M18 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$82M31 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

1QBit

Information Services
Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Software
$35M28 Nov 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Photonic Materials

Developer Platform
Electronics
Mobile
$5M16 Jan 2004 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Photonic Materials

Developer Platform
Electronics
Mobile
$10M16 Jun 2002 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Photonic Materials

Developer Platform
Electronics
Mobile
$3M05 Jul 2001 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Web4Test

Service Industry
Software
$2M03 Aug 2000 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Total investments 49
Average round size 103M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.53

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$50M18 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Pollinate

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$82M31 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

1QBit

Information Services
Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Software
$35M28 Nov 2017 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Photonic Materials

Developer Platform
Electronics
Mobile
$5M16 Jan 2004 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Photonic Materials

Developer Platform
Electronics
Mobile
$10M16 Jun 2002 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Photonic Materials

Developer Platform
Electronics
Mobile
$3M05 Jul 2001 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Web4Test

Service Industry
Software
$2M03 Aug 2000 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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