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University Challenge Fund

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.27
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Manufacturing
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Clinical Trials
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sports Dynamics Ltd.

Sports
$342K01 Jan 2004 Charnwood, England, United Kingdom

ReOx Ltd

Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$2M30 Aug 2003 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

RioTech Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
$342K01 Aug 2003 London, England, United Kingdom

DanioLabs

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$1M10 Jul 2002 United Kingdom, England

Hidden Footprints

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28 Jun 2001 Reston, Virginia, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.27
Peak activity year 2003
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.17

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sports Dynamics Ltd.

Sports
$342K01 Jan 2004 Charnwood, England, United Kingdom

ReOx Ltd

Pharmaceutical
Product Research
$2M30 Aug 2003 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

RioTech Pharmaceuticals

Biotechnology
Health Care
$342K01 Aug 2003 London, England, United Kingdom

DanioLabs

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$1M10 Jul 2002 United Kingdom, England

Hidden Footprints

Content
28 Jun 2001 Reston, Virginia, United States
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