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Woodford Investment Management

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Total investments 62
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$50M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 6.89
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 14
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Therapeutics
  • Biopharma
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Inivata

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical Device
$52M28 Mar 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Genomics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$9M09 Dec 2018 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Ultraleap

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Software Engineering
Virtual Reality
$47M02 Dec 2018 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Spin Memory

Data Storage
Hardware
Software
$52M12 Nov 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Genomics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$34M30 Aug 2018 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Metaboards

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
$5M12 Jun 2018 United Kingdom, Oxford

OxSyBio

3D Printing
3D Technology
Biotechnology
Medical
$13M12 Mar 2018 England

Bodle Technologies

Advanced Materials
CleanTech
Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$8M28 Jan 2018 England

Autolus

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$80M26 Sep 2017 England

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Total investments 62
Average round size 50M
Rounds per year 6.89
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Inivata

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical Device
$52M28 Mar 2019 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Genomics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$9M09 Dec 2018 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Ultraleap

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Software Engineering
Virtual Reality
$47M02 Dec 2018 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Spin Memory

Data Storage
Hardware
Software
$52M12 Nov 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Genomics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$34M30 Aug 2018 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Metaboards

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Manufacturing
$5M12 Jun 2018 United Kingdom, Oxford

OxSyBio

3D Printing
3D Technology
Biotechnology
Medical
$13M12 Mar 2018 England

Bodle Technologies

Advanced Materials
CleanTech
Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$8M28 Jan 2018 England

Autolus

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$80M26 Sep 2017 England
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