Grosvenor Food & AgTech

Total investments

55

Average round size

44M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

4.58

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

3

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceFood and BeverageFood ProcessingManufacturingGroceryHospitalityGreenTechFood DeliveryAgriculture

Summary

In 2012 was created Wheatsheaf Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Wheatsheaf Group, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, GSR Ventures, muru-D. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GSR Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners, MissionPoint Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Atomico, GSR Ventures, ADM Capital.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Agriculture, Food Delivery. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ostara, Enterra Feed, BluWrap. 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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Wheatsheaf Group is 100-500 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 48 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
17
Exits
3
Rounds per year
4.58
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (13)
  • Food and Beverage (11)
  • Food Delivery (10)
  • Biotechnology (9)
  • E-Commerce (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (28)
  • United Kingdom (11)
  • Canada (7)
  • Ireland (4)
  • Australia (3)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
201M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
15
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oxbury Bank 05 Jul 2022 Financial Services, Banking Late Stage Venture 27M England, Chester, United Kingdom
Ozo Innovations 18 Nov 2015 Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Clean Energy Early Stage Venture England, Cherwell, United Kingdom
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