Venrex

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

191

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

116

Rounds per year

8.68

Lead investments

21

Follow on index

0.39

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailMobileSaaSAppsMarketplaceFashionSocial Media

Summary

Venrex Investment Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2003. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Venrex Investment Management, startups are often financed by Seedcamp, Seedrs, Nesta Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Seedcamp, Index Ventures, Balderton Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Seedrs, 83North.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Just Eat, Revolut, LoveCrafts. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Mark Esiri, Tom Fleming. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Venrex Investment Management the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This Venrex Investment Management works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
191
Lead investments
21
Exits
9
Rounds per year
8.68
Follow on index
0.39
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (60)
  • Fashion (37)
  • Retail (28)
  • Internet (27)
  • Software (24)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (150)
  • United States (20)
  • Chile (2)
  • France (4)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
393M
Group Appearance index
0.49
Avg. company exit year
25
Avg. multiplicator
3.16
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BoobyBiome 29 Mar 2022 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science Seed 1M England, London, United Kingdom
Chexy 17 Jun 2024 FinTech Seed 3M Ontario, Toronto, Canada
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