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Pentech Ventures

Founders Eddie Anderson

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Total investments 81
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 3.68
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 14
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Analytics
Summary

In 2001 was created Pentech Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Edinburgh. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Security. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Velocix, GTN, FloodFlash.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Pentech Ventures, startups are often financed by Scottish Investment Bank, Amadeus Capital Partners, The Cambridge Gateway Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scottish Investment Bank, Amadeus Capital Partners, Herald Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Investment Bank, Amadeus Capital Partners, Piton Capital.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Pentech Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Pentech Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

This organization was formed by Eddie Anderson. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Causaly

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Semantic Search
$63M13 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Deep Render

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$6M29 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

PrimaryBid

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$190M20 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

FloodFlash

FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
$15M10 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Vauban

Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Legal
Legal Tech
$6M26 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Cognitive Credit

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Software
Stock Exchanges
$8M22 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Lifebit

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Cloud Data Services
Genetics
Graphic Design
Life Science
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Software
Video Games
$60M28 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Monolith AI

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Computer
Machine Learning
Product Design
Software
$9M23 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Stacker

Android
Information Technology
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
$20M18 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Monolith AI Raises £8.5M in Series A Funding

– Monolith AI, a UK AI engineering software company, raised £8.5M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Pentech and Touchstone, Alejandro Agag, the founder of Formula E and Extreme E, Apex Black and the Stanford Angels of the UK.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s international client base and continue to develop its 3D machine learning technology.

Stacker raises $20M Series A to help business units build software without coding

– Stacker, a London-based no-code platform, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by existing investors Initialized Capital, Y Combinator and Pentech.
– The company plans to put the new capital to work to reach 30-40 employees by the end of the year.

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Total investments 81
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 3.68
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Causaly

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Semantic Search
$63M13 Jul 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Deep Render

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Machine Learning
$6M29 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

PrimaryBid

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$190M20 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

FloodFlash

FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
$15M10 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Vauban

Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Legal
Legal Tech
$6M26 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Cognitive Credit

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Software
Stock Exchanges
$8M22 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Lifebit

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Cloud Data Services
Genetics
Graphic Design
Life Science
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Software
Video Games
$60M28 Sep 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Monolith AI

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Computer
Machine Learning
Product Design
Software
$9M23 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Stacker

Android
Information Technology
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
$20M18 Aug 2021 London, England, United Kingdom
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