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Total investments 114
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$234K
Portfolio companies 111
Rounds per year 9.50
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.03
Exits 10
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vested Finance

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Stock Exchanges
Trading Platform
$12M05 Apr 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Curu

Apps
Credit
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
$3M22 May 2020 United States, Denver

Tessian

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Email
Machine Learning
Professional Services
25 Jan 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Elvie

Apps
Hardware
Software
Wearables
26 Jan 2017 United Kingdom, England

SAM Labs

E-Learning
Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
STEM Education
28 Jan 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Digital Surgery

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical
26 Jan 2016 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 114
Average round size 234K
Rounds per year 9.50
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.03
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.07

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vested Finance

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Stock Exchanges
Trading Platform
$12M05 Apr 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Curu

Apps
Credit
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
$3M22 May 2020 United States, Denver

Tessian

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Email
Machine Learning
Professional Services
25 Jan 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Elvie

Apps
Hardware
Software
Wearables
26 Jan 2017 United Kingdom, England

SAM Labs

E-Learning
Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
STEM Education
28 Jan 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Digital Surgery

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Medical
26 Jan 2016 United Kingdom, England
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