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Praetura Ventures

Founders David Foreman Michael Fletcher Peadar Ou2019Reilly

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Total investments 92
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 7.08
Lead investments 32
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

Praetura Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Manchester.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Praetura Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Praetura Ventures works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 66 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Praetura Ventures, startups are often financed by Qualcomm Ventures, NVM Private Equity, GReeN Investor Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NVM Private Equity, MMC Ventures, Shell Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NVM Private Equity, Seneca Partners, MMC Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Peak, EC3 Brokers Ltd, SteamaCo. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Energy. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by David Foreman, Michael Fletcher, Peadar Ou2019Reilly.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EarSwitch

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
$1M01 Mar 2024 Bristol, South West, United Kingdom

Decently

Information Technology
Product Research
$685K20 Sep 2023 Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Covatic

Apps
Mobile
Software
$5M18 May 2023 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Sticky

Hospitality
NFC
Retail Technology
Software
$2M12 May 2023 Calderdale, England, United Kingdom

AeroCloud Systems

Air Transportation
$12M21 Feb 2023 Chester, England, United Kingdom

Re:course

Health Care
Hospital
Life Science
Web Development
$4M02 Feb 2023 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Arctic Shores

Artificial Intelligence
Gamification
Human Resources
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$7M16 Jan 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Modern Milkman Limited

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
$68M22 Nov 2022 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Modern Milkman Limited

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
$68M21 Nov 2022 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
News
Culture Shift Raises £1.5M in Funding

– Culture Shift, a Manchester UK-based HR tech firm helping to prevent workplace bullying, raised £1.5M in funding.
– The round was led by Praetura Ventures and Blackfinch Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to make a significant number of new hires in Manchester, and expand into new markets across the UK to enable more UK organisations to proactively improve culture.

Peak, a managed AI platform for enterprise, nabs $75M

– Peak, a U.K.-headquartered company offering AI-powered enterprise decision support software, announced that it closed a $75 million series C.
– The tranche, which was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from MMC Ventures, Oxx, Praetura Ventures, Arete, and Octopus Ventures, brings Peak’s total raised to date $119 million.
– The growth potential of AI has become increasingly clear as companies embrace automation and analytics.
– The global AI market value is expected to reach $267 billion by 2027, according to one source, and PricewaterhouseCoopers reports that 25% of companies have adopted AI compared with 18% in 2020.

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Total investments 92
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 7.08
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 32
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.47

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EarSwitch

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical
$1M01 Mar 2024 Bristol, South West, United Kingdom

Decently

Information Technology
Product Research
$685K20 Sep 2023 Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Covatic

Apps
Mobile
Software
$5M18 May 2023 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Sticky

Hospitality
NFC
Retail Technology
Software
$2M12 May 2023 Calderdale, England, United Kingdom

AeroCloud Systems

Air Transportation
$12M21 Feb 2023 Chester, England, United Kingdom

Re:course

Health Care
Hospital
Life Science
Web Development
$4M02 Feb 2023 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Arctic Shores

Artificial Intelligence
Gamification
Human Resources
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$7M16 Jan 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Modern Milkman Limited

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
$68M22 Nov 2022 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Modern Milkman Limited

Consumer Goods
Delivery Service
$68M21 Nov 2022 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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