Unilever Ventures

Summary

Unilever Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. Unilever Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Unilever Ventures, startups are often financed by MMC Ventures, Angel CoFund, ARCH Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MMC Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Physic Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MMC Ventures, Business Growth Fund, Angel CoFund.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Unilever Ventures works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. When the investment is from Unilever Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Instacart, Perlegen Sciences, Brandtone. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Consumer Goods.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.