University Challenge Fund

Total investments

6

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

0.27

Lead investments

2

Exits

2

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingContentPharmaceuticalSportsTherapeuticsClinical TrialsProduct Research

Summary

University Challenge Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Belfast.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. This University Challenge Fund works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2003.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. 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 popular fund investment industries, there are Clinical Trials, Health Diagnostics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DanioLabs

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are QUBIS, Invest Northern Ireland, Crescent Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Cambridge Gateway Fund, SBRI Healthcare, NVM Private Equity.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
2
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (3)
  • Pharmaceutical (2)
  • Manufacturing (1)
  • Health Diagnostics (1)
  • Clinical Trials (1)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2003

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.17
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.04

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hidden Footprints 28 Jun 2001 Content Early Stage Venture United States, Virginia, Reston
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