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Wren Capital

Founders Rajat Malhotra

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 2.38
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.23
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Hardware
  • Biopharma
  • Genetics
Summary

Wren Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2013. This Wren Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Medical Device. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight LumeJet, Momentum Bioscience, Monica Healthcare. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Wren Capital, startups are often financed by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Midven, Catapult Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Parkwalk Advisors, Newable Private Investing. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Parkwalk Advisors, Midven, IQ Capital.

This organization was formed by Rajat Malhotra. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

MitoRx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$5M13 Dec 2023 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

PharmEnable

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$8M22 May 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

MitoRx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
25 Apr 2022 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Centauri Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$32M16 Feb 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Tay Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M02 Nov 2021 Dundee City, Dundee, United Kingdom

Monument Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$3M01 Jul 2021 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Antiverse

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Software
$1M15 Mar 2021 Cardiff, United Kingdom

Tay Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
27 Nov 2020 Dundee City, Dundee, United Kingdom
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Adapttech Raises £2M in Funding

– Adapttech, a Birmingham, UK-based biomedical startup, raised £2m in funding.
– The round was supported by existing investors including the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, Bionova Capital (formerly Hovione Capital), as well as new investors including ACF Investors, Wealth Club and Wren Capital.
– The company intends to use the funds to develop new technologies and grow sales of its system for improving the fitting of prosthetic devices.

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Total investments 31
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 2.38
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.23
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

MitoRx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$5M13 Dec 2023 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

PharmEnable

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$8M22 May 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

MitoRx Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
25 Apr 2022 Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Centauri Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$32M16 Feb 2022 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Tay Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$2M02 Nov 2021 Dundee City, Dundee, United Kingdom

Monument Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$3M01 Jul 2021 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Antiverse

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Health Care
Life Science
Software
$1M15 Mar 2021 Cardiff, United Kingdom

Tay Therapeutics

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
27 Nov 2020 Dundee City, Dundee, United Kingdom
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