{"id":42174,"date":"2014-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/retrospectiva-2013-del-venture-capital-en-el-reino-unido\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:25:16","slug":"retrospectiva-2013-del-venture-capital-en-el-reino-unido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/retrospectiva-2013-del-venture-capital-en-el-reino-unido\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Venture Capital Review 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
El venture capital<\/strong> invested $1.8 billion in UK-based companies in 2013. By contrast, the capital raised by company sales<\/strong> $2.2Bn funded by VCs has reached $2.2Bn.<\/span><\/address>\n

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IT sector, the most active sector with 34% of transactions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

According to data provided by\u00a0Pitchbook,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0382 companies have completed a financing round<\/strong> by venture capital during 2013. The IT sector received the largest number of deal flow, accounting for 34% of the total, followed by healthcare, B2B, B2C and energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"As in the rest of Europe and the US, the IT sector is the one that receives the largest number of transactions, but in the UK the percentage of representation is lower. In Europe it accounted for 66% during the first quarter of 2013 and in the US 44%\" analyses Diego Gutierrez of\u00a0Abra Invest<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0a company specialising in SME financing.<\/span><\/p>\n

While in the IT sector 83% of deals were concentrated in the software segment, in the health sector it was more spread out: almost 50% for pharma&biotech, 37% for equipment and supplies and 8% for technology systems. The average deal size was $1.8M per deal. The largest deal was\u00a0Truphone<\/span><\/span>a mobile communications company that raised $116M in February 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

$2.2bn for business sales: highest level since 2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

During 2013, 53 UK companies funded by the venture capital<\/strong> $2,200M were sold, almost double the amount recorded in 2012. This is the fourth consecutive year that the number of sales has increased compared to the previous year, almost double the 24 transactions in 2009. The largest sales of companies were led by\u00a0Ubiquisys<\/span><\/a><\/span>a manufacturer of communications equipment, which has been acquired by\u00a0CISCO\u00a0<\/span><\/a>by $310M.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most active investors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

According to the number of transactions carried out, the most active investors have been:<\/span>
\n1.\u00a0Scottish Enterprise\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>(22)<\/span>
\n2.\u00a0Enterprise Ventures\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>(19)<\/span>
\n3.\u00a0Midven<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>(16)<\/span>
\n4.\u00a0Index Ventures<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0(15)<\/span>
\n5.\u00a0Angel CoFund,<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0Imperial Innovations Group<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Octopus Investments<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0(12)<\/span>
\n6.\u00a0Business Growth Fund,<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0Mercia Fund Management MMC Ventures\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>(11)<\/span>
\n7.\u00a0London Business Angels\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>(10)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venture capital invested $$1.8 billion in UK-based companies in 2013. In contrast, capital raised from the sale of VC-funded companies amounted to $2.2 billion.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2277],"tags":[],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-42174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiplos-de-empresas-cotizadas","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42174"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=42174"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=42174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}