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Cambridge Angels group

Founders David Cleevely Doug Richard Robert Sansom Sherry Coutu

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Total investments 132
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 102
Rounds per year 5.28
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 10
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biotechnology
  • Machine Learning
Summary

In 1999 was created Cambridge Angels group, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the Cambridge.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Cambridge Angels group is 1-5 millions dollars. This Cambridge Angels group works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Cambridge Angels group, startups are often financed by Cambridge Capital Group, Nesta Ventures, University of Cambridge Enterprise. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Parkwalk Advisors, IQ Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Draper Esprit, Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Innovation Capital.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Healx, Featurespace, Netronome Systems Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Pharmaceutical, Analytics. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The current fund was established by David Cleevely, Doug Richard, Robert Sansom, Sherry Coutu. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Energy Management
Software
$1M18 Jul 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Monument Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$1M18 Apr 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Qureight

Health Care
$9M15 Apr 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

BugBiome

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$424K12 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Xampla

Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$7M30 Jan 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

zeroRISC

Hardware
Information Technology
Security
$5M30 Oct 2023 -

Adora Digital Health

22 Jun 2023 -

Albotherm

Agriculture
AgTech
Chemical
$2M07 Jun 2023 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

ConcR

Health Care
$1M05 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Forefront RF Raises £1.5M in Funding

– Forefront RF is a fabless semiconductor company based in Cambridge, UK.
– The company raised £1.5m in funding.
– The round was led by Science Creates Ventures with participation from Foresight Williams Technology, BGF, and The Cambridge Angels.
– The new investment will be used to expand the team and accelerate the launch of its products.

ScaleXP Raises £600K in Seed Funding

– ScaleXP from London develops a SaaS platform for small businesses to consolidate their financial and sales data.
– Series A funding round of £600k was led by Cambridge Angels, Angel Academe, Syndicate Room and Founders Factory.
– The new investment will be used to develop the company’s platform and services, as well as accelerate customer acquisition.
– In conjunction with the funding, Alex Hirsch will take a position on the ScaleXP advisory board.

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Total investments 132
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 5.28
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

xwatts

Energy Management
Software
$1M18 Jul 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Monument Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$1M18 Apr 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Qureight

Health Care
$9M15 Apr 2024 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

BugBiome

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$424K12 Feb 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Xampla

Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$7M30 Jan 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

zeroRISC

Hardware
Information Technology
Security
$5M30 Oct 2023 -

Adora Digital Health

22 Jun 2023 -

Albotherm

Agriculture
AgTech
Chemical
$2M07 Jun 2023 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

ConcR

Health Care
$1M05 May 2023 London, England, United Kingdom
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