C5 Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

33

Average round size

27M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

3.67

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSMobile AppsEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityCloud Data ServicesComputer

Summary

C5 Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The current fund was established by Andre Pienaar. The overall number of key employees were 6.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Shape Security, Reduxio, IronNet Cybersecurity. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Enterprise Software. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the C5 Capital, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Venrock, TomorrowVentures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Intel Capital, Winton Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Winton Ventures, Upscale, Pitch@Palace.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 49 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2019. When the investment is from C5 Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this C5 Capital performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
CybersecurityAnalyticsCloud/InfrastructureAerospace
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
9
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.67
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Cyber Security (11)
  • Security (9)
  • Network Security (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • Denmark (2)
  • Israel (1)
  • Hungary (1)
  • Luxembourg (1)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
152M
Group Appearance index
0.82
Avg. company exit year
18
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

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EWar Games 28 Apr 2021 Online Games Seed 2M Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
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