Upscale
Other
Active
114
234K
111
9.50
1
0.03
10
- Areas of investment
Summary
The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Signal AI, Zego, Tessian. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, Analytics.
This Upscale works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Upscale is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 25-48 deals every year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 19 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Upscale, startups are often financed by Business Growth Fund, Pitch@Palace, Passion Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tera Ventures, Sebastian Picardo, Saber Growth Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by MMC Ventures, Balderton Capital, Business Growth Fund.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 114
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 9.50
- Follow on index
- 0.03
- Investments by industry
- Software (27)
- Artificial Intelligence (17)
- SaaS (16)
- Financial Services (14)
- Information Technology (14) Show 192 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (5)
- United Kingdom (108)
- Estonia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 5
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 152M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.07
- Avg. company exit year
- 7
- Avg. multiplicator
- 5.86
- Strategy success index
- 0.60
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAM Labs | 28 Jan 2016 | E-Learning, Education, STEM Education, Secondary Education, Primary Education | Seed | England, London, United Kingdom |
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