IP Group Plc (IPZYF) is a publicly traded company in the Financial Services sector, operating within the Asset Management industry. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The current CEO is Gregory Simon Smith.
IPZYF has IPO date of 2013-08-27, 69 full-time employees, listed on the Other OTC, a market capitalization of $711.6M.
IP Group Plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, start-up, incubation, growth capital, and mature financing. The firm also provides seed capital financing to spin out companies from the universities. It seeks to invest in the life sciences, physical sciences, energy & renewables, medical equipment and supplies, healthcare, technology, cleantech, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology, information technology & communications, and chemicals & materials. It also provides support for its university partners' intellectual property commercialization activities, as well as in the identification of intellectual property. It typically invests between £0.5 million ($0.75 million) and £1 million ($1.50 million) per investment. The firm prefers to takes equity positions in its portfolio companies. IP Group Plc was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Wilmington, Delaware; Hong Kong S.A.R., Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia.
