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Cass Entrepreneurship Fund

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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$944K
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 1.50
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Search Engine
  • Medical
  • Business Intelligence
Summary

In 2010 was created Cass Entrepreneurship Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Cass Entrepreneurship Fund, startups are often financed by Seedrs, London Co-Investment Fund, Elderstreet Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The FSE Group, SyndicateRoom, Seedrs. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Angel CoFund, SyndicateRoom.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Cass Entrepreneurship Fund is 5-10 millions dollars.

We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sentiment, alva, NorthRow. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Business Intelligence.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Springpod

Apps
Career Planning
College Recruiting
EdTech
Education
Recruiting
$3M12 Apr 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Evolve Dynamics

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Drones
Innovation Management
Machine Learning
$822K27 Feb 2020 United Kingdom, England

FibreCRM

Business Intelligence
CRM
Software
$1M28 May 2019 United Kingdom, England

Raremark

Health Care
Medical
Search Engine
$4M22 Oct 2018 United Kingdom, England

Sentiment

Digital Entertainment
Internet
Messaging
Social CRM
Social Media Management
Software
Unified Communications
$1M30 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, England

Raremark

Health Care
Medical
Search Engine
$602K01 May 2017 United Kingdom, England

Raremark

Health Care
Medical
Search Engine
$931K24 May 2016 United Kingdom, England

Family Traveller

Digital Media
Hospitality
Leisure
Social Media
Travel
$1M15 Jun 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

NorthRow

Business/Productivity Software
Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Media and Information Services (B2B)
SaaS
Software
$545K02 Feb 2012 United Kingdom, England
News
Springpod Raises £2.25M in Series A Funding

– Springpod is a London and Liverpool, UK-based careers network that connects young people with employers & education providers.
– Company raised £2.25M in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Triple Point, Cass Entrepreneurship Fund and Alliance Fund Managers, MSIF‘s fund management subsidiary, alongside participation from existing investors.
– The new investment will be used to launch its platform in new international territories.

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Total investments 18
Average round size 944K
Rounds per year 1.50
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.11
Group Appearance index 0.56

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Springpod

Apps
Career Planning
College Recruiting
EdTech
Education
Recruiting
$3M12 Apr 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Evolve Dynamics

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Drones
Innovation Management
Machine Learning
$822K27 Feb 2020 United Kingdom, England

FibreCRM

Business Intelligence
CRM
Software
$1M28 May 2019 United Kingdom, England

Raremark

Health Care
Medical
Search Engine
$4M22 Oct 2018 United Kingdom, England

Sentiment

Digital Entertainment
Internet
Messaging
Social CRM
Social Media Management
Software
Unified Communications
$1M30 Jun 2017 United Kingdom, England

Raremark

Health Care
Medical
Search Engine
$602K01 May 2017 United Kingdom, England

Raremark

Health Care
Medical
Search Engine
$931K24 May 2016 United Kingdom, England

Family Traveller

Digital Media
Hospitality
Leisure
Social Media
Travel
$1M15 Jun 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

NorthRow

Business/Productivity Software
Compliance
Financial Services
FinTech
Media and Information Services (B2B)
SaaS
Software
$545K02 Feb 2012 United Kingdom, England
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