2019: A Record Year for VC Investment in UK Tech

2019: A Record Year for VC Investment in UK Tech

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  2019: A recordyear for VC investment in the UK January 2020 Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge. Photo by Vadim Sherbakov. Supported by the Digital Economy Council and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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  In Europe, theUK ranks #1 by number of unicorns. Cumulative number of unicorns created by year $1 billion valuation is reached Israel: 4 Rest of Europe: 5 Germany: 3 France: 6 Switzerland: 4 UK: 8 Unicorns created in 2019 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reportsPage / 2 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK
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  UK has severalmajor tech hubs that measure up to Europe’s capitals. London Berlin Oxbridge Paris Amsterdam Manchester Dublin Edinburgh Bristol Unicorns created 46 12 11 11 9 5 4 2 2 Population 8.2M 3.5M 290K 2.2M 821K 510K 565K 489K 535K Investment per capita $1180 $1290 $3,420 $1500 $980 $1080 $660 $330 $780 Highest ranked university 8 62 1 & 2 72 59 54 117 27 87 Number of accelerators 146 54 22 51 28 10 14 6 5 Unicorns: number of companies founded since 1990 that reached $1 billion valuation. Investment per capita based on investment in 2019 and city population. University rank as per Times Higher Education. Page / 3 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK
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  Venture capital investmentin UK by round size $800M $655M $575M $550M $440M $260M $240M $230M Top UK rounds in 2019 Page / 4 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Venture capital investment in the UK: $13.2 billion invested in 2019.
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  The UK receivedmore investment than Germany and France combined, and about one third of total investment in Europe in 2019. 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 5 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  Venture capital fundingby city 2019 Venture capital investment in the UK compared to the rest of the world. Venture capital funding by country 2019 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 6 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  Investment in theUK grew by 44% in 2019 compared to last year. 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 7 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports 2018-19 change in VC investment in percentage
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  Strong performance acrosskey tech sub-sectors. 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 8 2018-19 change in VC investment in percentage per key sector. January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  A closer lookat UK best performing sectors: Fintech Supply Chain Financial Services $1455M The next-generation credit platform $800M International Online Payment Solutions $230M index management $221M Online Money Transfer Business $175M Peer-to-peer Lending Platform $168M Digital Only Bank Platform $147M Enabling Payment in-country or cross-border $100M Mobile-App based Bank $98M Merchant Acquiring for Banks $78M Amount invested in fintech startups by country ($B) 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 9 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  AI to acceleratescientific discovery $90M Virtual Reality Music $60M Contract Management $55M Machine Intelligent Email Security $40M Data Collection Privacy $40M Text Algorithms $38M Fraud Management $33M AI Powered Media Intelligence $25M AI Decision Making Platform $24M AI for Self Driving Cars $20M A closer look at UK best performing sectors: AI & Deep tech Amount invested in AI & deep tech startups by country ($B) 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 10 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  Energy Technology companyand Supplier $260M Hybrid Organic Photovoltaic Systems $81M Solar Power Systems $81M Power Technology Developer $33M Battery Energy Storage Solutions $33M Solar Systems for rural off-grid homes $26M Next generation clean energy $17M Specialises in wells and well related technology $13M Developer of Distributed Energy Storage $11M Biomaterials & mushroom technology start- up $10M A closer look at UK best performing sectors: Energy & Cleantech Amount invested in energy & cleantech startups by country ($B) 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 11 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  Early stage VCfunding in the UK is growing by both investment amounts and number of rounds. 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 12 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  2019: A recordyear for VC investment in the UK Page / 13 Investment from home country Investment from Asia Investment from Europe cross-border Investment from North America Compared to Germany and France, the UK has a wider mix of investor and received more investment from Asia and North America. January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  ▪ Investment numbersrefer to venture capital investment rounds such as seed, series A, B, C, …. late stage, and growth equity rounds. It excludes debt or other non- equity funding, lending capital, grants and ICOs. ▪ Buyouts, M&A, secondary rounds, and IPOs are treated as exits: excluded from funding data, but included in exit data. ▪ A unicorn is defined as a tech driven company that has reached a $1 billion valuation, on the basis of a funding round (unrealised), acquisition or IPO (realised). ▪ There are some notable edge-cases: - Companies that IPO-ed at or above $1 billion but subsequently dipped below that valuation, are still included as $1B+ exit (examples: Alfa, Rovio, eDreams). - Some companies have at some stage reached a $1 billion but subsequently raised, IPO-ed or were acquired below that value. In this case the company is not counted as a unicorn (examples: Blippar, Home24, Fanduel, Ulmart, Conduit, Wonga, VE Interactive, Powa). - If a unicorn moved HQ, the company is counted in the country where it reached unicorn status. Occasionally companies received dual HQ status. ▪ This report focuses on companies in the post-internet age, i.e. after 2000. Most but not all unicorns are VC backed. ▪ Companies included in the analysis are tech-driven. Industries include software, ecommerce, online marketplaces, hardware, ICT infrastructure. The full industry & business model taxonomy can be found online ▪ Dealroom’s proprietary database and software aggregate data from multiple sources: harvesting public information, user-submitted data verified by Dealroom, data engineering. All data is verified and curated with an extensive manual process. ▪ Most underlying data from the report is available online via https://datacommons.technation.io. For more info please visit dealroom.co or contact [email protected] Methodology & definitions 2019: A record year for VC investment in the UK Page / 14 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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  31,300+ startups & scaleups 500+ Accelerators,workspaces 10,200+ funds & corporate investors 19,500+ Funding rounds & exits The most complete and detailed picture of UK’s tech ecosystem, in partnership with Tech Nation: https://datacommons.technation.io Page / 15 January 2020 | Check underlying data via https://datacommons.technation.io/reports
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