Calculus Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

69

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

49

Rounds per year

2.76

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

9

Stages of investment
SeedLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareMedicalLife SciencePharmaceuticalBiopharma

Summary

Calculus Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. 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.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Education. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight IPV, Once Upon a Time, Jumptastic. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Calculus Capital performs on 13 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Calculus Capital, startups are often financed by Cambridge Angels group, Oxford Technology Management, SyndicateRoom. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Enterprise Investment Scheme, Venture Capital Trust, Scottish Investment Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Investment Bank, ValueAct Capital, Upscale.

This organization was formed by John Glencross, Susan McDonald. The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareMedia/Content
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United Kingdom
Check size
6K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
69
Lead investments
10
Exits
9
Rounds per year
2.76
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (23)
  • Medical (12)
  • Software (12)
  • Health Care (7)
  • Life Science (7)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (62)
  • United States (5)
  • Ireland (1)
  • South Africa (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
13M
Group Appearance index
0.46
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
4.63

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Latest deals

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Arctic Shores 16 Jan 2023 Internet, Software, Information Technology, Human Resources, Artificial Intelligence, Gamification Early Stage Venture 7M England, London, United Kingdom
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Yellow Card 27 Aug 2020 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Exchanges, Virtual Currency Seed 1M United States, Atlanta, Georgia

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