Walking Ventures

Summary

Walking Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Walking Ventures, startups are often financed by Cambridge Angels group, Winton Ventures, Tim Jackson. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tim Jackson, Samos Investments, LocalGlobe. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Piton Capital, Upscale, Sequoia Capital.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. When the investment is from Walking Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. This Walking Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The fund has no exact preference 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. 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 various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Tessian, Codementor, Joint Academy Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Artificial Intelligence, Education. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.