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Walking Ventures

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Total investments 27
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 26
Rounds per year 2.25
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.04
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Internet
  • Analytics
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tessian

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Email
Machine Learning
Professional Services
$13M17 Jun 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Oviva

Consulting
Health Care
Personal Health
$12M20 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Attractions.io

Amusement Park and Arcade
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Leisure
Mobile Apps
Software
09 Mar 2017 East Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Attraction Technology Systems

Information Technology
01 Mar 2017 United Kingdom, England

Audio Analytic

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Machine Learning
Software
Wearables
$5M03 Jan 2017 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Joint Academy

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Software
Therapeutics
$2M06 Dec 2016 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

Kheiron

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
$13K08 Sep 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Goodlord

Mobile Payments
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$2M18 May 2016 United Kingdom, England

Edge Retreats

Leisure
Marketplace
Tourism
Travel
$1M07 Apr 2016 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 27
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 2.25
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.04
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tessian

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Email
Machine Learning
Professional Services
$13M17 Jun 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Oviva

Consulting
Health Care
Personal Health
$12M20 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

Attractions.io

Amusement Park and Arcade
Food and Beverage
Hospitality
Leisure
Mobile Apps
Software
09 Mar 2017 East Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Attraction Technology Systems

Information Technology
01 Mar 2017 United Kingdom, England

Audio Analytic

Artificial Intelligence
Audio
Machine Learning
Software
Wearables
$5M03 Jan 2017 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Joint Academy

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Software
Therapeutics
$2M06 Dec 2016 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

Kheiron

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
$13K08 Sep 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Goodlord

Mobile Payments
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$2M18 May 2016 United Kingdom, England

Edge Retreats

Leisure
Marketplace
Tourism
Travel
$1M07 Apr 2016 United Kingdom, England
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