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West Hill Capital

Founders Alan Richards Andrew Galloway David Hollidge Edward Williams Mark Hickson Robert Forbes Caie

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Total investments 53
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 34
Rounds per year 2.52
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 4
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • Biotechnology
Summary

In 2003 was created West Hill Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The current fund was established by Alan Richards, Andrew Galloway, David Hollidge, Edward Williams, Mark Hickson, Robert Forbes Caie. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the West Hill Capital, startups are often financed by Pitch@Palace, Aviva Ventures, Wayra. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vision Blue Solutions, Sumitomo Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accel.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, SaaS. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Canopy, Freemarket, Humio.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from West Hill Capital the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 69 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Whistleblower Software

Legal
Security
Software
$17M05 Mar 2024 Valby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Lilli

$11M08 Feb 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Neurescue

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$8M02 Feb 2024 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Whistleblower Software

Legal
Security
Software
$5M05 Oct 2022 Valby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

ATLANT 3D Nanosystems

Advanced Materials
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Semiconductor
$15M12 Sep 2022 Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Care Hires

Health Care
Nursing and Residential Care
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$2M20 Apr 2022 Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Norlase

Consumer Electronics
Laser
Lighting
Medical Device
$9M26 Oct 2021 Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

AppyWay

Apps
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Parking
SaaS
Smart Cities
Software
Ticketing
01 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Onvi

E-Commerce
Hospitality
Mobile Payments
PaaS
Point of Sale
Software
Wireless
$6M30 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Lilli Raises £4.5M in Pre-Series A Funding

– Lilli, a London, UK-based SaaS company using machine learning to innovate home care, raised £4.5m in a pre-Series A funding.
– The round was organized by West Hill Capital.
– Led by CEO Gren Paull, CSO Kelly Hudson, and CCO Nick Weston, Lilli provides a machine learning powered SaaS platform to alleviate the pressures of caring for an ageing UK population with long-term health conditions, and advocates accessibility to the technology for all those that need it.

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Total investments 53
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.52
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.13

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Whistleblower Software

Legal
Security
Software
$17M05 Mar 2024 Valby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Lilli

$11M08 Feb 2024 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Neurescue

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical Device
$8M02 Feb 2024 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Whistleblower Software

Legal
Security
Software
$5M05 Oct 2022 Valby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

ATLANT 3D Nanosystems

Advanced Materials
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
Semiconductor
$15M12 Sep 2022 Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Care Hires

Health Care
Nursing and Residential Care
Recruiting
Software
Staffing Agency
$2M20 Apr 2022 Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Norlase

Consumer Electronics
Laser
Lighting
Medical Device
$9M26 Oct 2021 Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

AppyWay

Apps
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Parking
SaaS
Smart Cities
Software
Ticketing
01 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Onvi

E-Commerce
Hospitality
Mobile Payments
PaaS
Point of Sale
Software
Wireless
$6M30 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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