StaTistics from my portfolio

  • Team size mean 1.9; median: 2.0

  • 95+% with degrees, 69% from the top four UK unis, 6% have MBAs

  • Average age: 38.5 years. 27% born overseas, only 5% female (due, i believe to a lack of STEM education in the UK, and hence entrepreneurs, so far)

  • 48% are repeat entrepreneurs, of which most have had a failure, and are open about the reason(s)

  • average Contact to close: 5.2 months

  • investment to failure: 5 to 94 months

  • investment to success: 15 to 111 months

  • figures to mid 2021

  • EXIT STATS AT https://www.petercowley.org/exits-failures