Woodford Investment Management
London, United Kingdom
62
50M
42
6.89
13
0.32
14
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- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2014 was created Woodford Investment Management, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Oxford.
We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Woodford Investment Management, startups are often financed by Invesco, Lansdowne Partners, Allied Minds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Imperial Innovations, Lansdowne Partners, Invesco. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Dolby Family Ventures, Lansdowne Partners, Invesco Perpetual.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Therapeutics, Electronics. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight benevolent.ai, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Atom Bank.
Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Woodford Investment Management is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Woodford Investment Management performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 62
- Lead investments
- 13
- Exits
- 14
- Rounds per year
- 6.89
- Follow on index
- 0.32
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (34)
- Health Care (19)
- Medical (18)
- Therapeutics (14)
- Biopharma (12) Show 70 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (46)
- United States (13)
- Switzerland (1)
- Ireland (1)
- Australia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 2
- Number of Decacorns
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 155M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.82
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.35
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Drayson Technologies Group | 11 May 2016 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things | Early Stage Venture | 10M | England, London, United Kingdom |
Elum | 17 Jul 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Energy | Seed | 0 | Ile-de-France, Paris, France |
Nutri Co | 01 Jul 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wellness, Sustainability, Nutrition | Seed | 10K | Lima, Lima, Peru |
Ultraleap | 03 May 2017 | Software Engineering, Virtual Reality, Consumer Electronics, Electronics | Early Stage Venture | 24M | England, Bristol, United Kingdom |
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