Virgin Group

Summary

In 1970 was created Virgin Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Square, TransferWise, OneWeb. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Internet. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. 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.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Virgin Group, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Seedcamp, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Union Square Ventures, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qualcomm Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Jump Capital.

This organization was formed by Richard Branson. The overall number of key employees were 10.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Virgin Group the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Virgin Group works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.