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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund

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Total investments 93
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 57
Rounds per year 4.43
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 5
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Manufacturing
  • Therapeutics
Summary

In 2002 was created UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Harwell. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Opposing the other organizations, this UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight P2i, Crescendo Biologics, The Electrospinning Company. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Electronics, Pharmaceutical.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, startups are often financed by Newable Private Investing, Sofinnova Partners, Providence Investment Company Limited. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oxford Technology Management, Midven, Development Bank of Wales. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Newable Private Investing, Midven, Oxford Technology Management.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CHAIN Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$2M26 Jul 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

NK:IO

Biotechnology
Life Science
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$1M25 Jul 2023 -

Resurrect Bio

AgTech
Animal Feed
Biotechnology
$2M16 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Vitarka Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$1M06 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Productive Machines

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Industrial Automation
Internet
Manufacturing
Software
$3M23 Feb 2023 Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom

Vector Photonics

Semiconductor
$3M27 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

MicrofluidX

Biotechnology
Medical Device
$4M08 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Silveray

Medical
Medical Device
$3M12 Oct 2022 Stockport, ‎North West, United Kingdom

Lineat Composites

Advanced Materials
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$938K03 May 2022 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 93
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 4.43
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CHAIN Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$2M26 Jul 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

NK:IO

Biotechnology
Life Science
Manufacturing
Therapeutics
$1M25 Jul 2023 -

Resurrect Bio

AgTech
Animal Feed
Biotechnology
$2M16 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Vitarka Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
$1M06 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Productive Machines

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Industrial Automation
Internet
Manufacturing
Software
$3M23 Feb 2023 Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom

Vector Photonics

Semiconductor
$3M27 Jan 2023 Glasgow City, Glasgow, United Kingdom

MicrofluidX

Biotechnology
Medical Device
$4M08 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Silveray

Medical
Medical Device
$3M12 Oct 2022 Stockport, ‎North West, United Kingdom

Lineat Composites

Advanced Materials
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Semiconductor
$938K03 May 2022 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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