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Touchstone Innovations

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Total investments 19
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 0.90
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 4
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • FinTech
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Touchstone Innovations appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2001. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the London.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Touchstone Innovations works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 52 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cell Medica, WaveOptics, Pulmocide. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Commercial.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Touchstone Innovations, startups are often financed by Nesta Ventures, Pitch@Palace, Cambridge Angels group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mercia Technologies, Draper Esprit, Worldpay. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IP Group Plc, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Octopus Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SAM Labs

E-Learning
Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
STEM Education
$6M14 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Oxford Biotrans

Biotechnology
Commercial
Universities
$2M10 Oct 2017 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

WaveOptics

Application Software
Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Electronics (B2C)
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Other Hardware
Virtual Reality
Wearables
$16M17 Jul 2017 United Kingdom, England

Yoyo Wallet

FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Retail
$16M26 Jun 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Impression Technologies

Business Development
Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Transportation
$4M21 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, Coventry

Cardian

Commercial
Wireless
$2M06 Apr 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Pulmocide

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceuticals
$30M20 Mar 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Kuur Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$82M15 Mar 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Garrison Technology

Computer
Cyber Security
Network Security
$16M06 Mar 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 19
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 0.90
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

SAM Labs

E-Learning
Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
STEM Education
$6M14 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Oxford Biotrans

Biotechnology
Commercial
Universities
$2M10 Oct 2017 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

WaveOptics

Application Software
Augmented Reality
Consumer Electronics
Electronics (B2C)
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Other Hardware
Virtual Reality
Wearables
$16M17 Jul 2017 United Kingdom, England

Yoyo Wallet

FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
Retail
$16M26 Jun 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Impression Technologies

Business Development
Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Transportation
$4M21 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, Coventry

Cardian

Commercial
Wireless
$2M06 Apr 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Pulmocide

Biotechnology
Drug Discovery
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceuticals
$30M20 Mar 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Kuur Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$82M15 Mar 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Garrison Technology

Computer
Cyber Security
Network Security
$16M06 Mar 2017 London, England, United Kingdom
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