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Cambridge Capital Group

Founders Struan McDougall

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.88
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 7
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical
  • Hardware
Summary

In 2000 was created Cambridge Capital Group, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cambridge. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Cambridge Capital Group, startups are often financed by Cambridge Angels group, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Octopus Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are 3i Group, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Imperial Innovations. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cambridge Angels group, 3i Group, Nesta Ventures.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Advanced Materials. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Featurespace, Light Blue Optics, Nujira For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The fund was created by Struan McDougall. The overall number of key employees were 3.

Comparing to the other companies, this Cambridge Capital Group performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cytochroma

Biotechnology
$1M16 Dec 2021 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Qualus

Environmental Consulting
$1M01 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge GaN Devices

Semiconductor
$9M18 Feb 2021 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Porotech

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Electronics
$2M08 Apr 2020 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

SupaPass

Developer Platform
E-Commerce
Web Design
Web Development
$685K30 Mar 2020 Norwich, England, United Kingdom

SupaPass

Developer Platform
E-Commerce
Web Design
Web Development
$548K30 Dec 2018 United Kingdom, England

Lightpoint Medical

Biotechnology
Medical
Medical Device
$6M06 Dec 2018 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

OBRIZUM Group Ltd.

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
$1M28 Jun 2018 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 45
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.88
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cytochroma

Biotechnology
$1M16 Dec 2021 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Qualus

Environmental Consulting
$1M01 Jun 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge GaN Devices

Semiconductor
$9M18 Feb 2021 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Porotech

Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Electronics
$2M08 Apr 2020 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

SupaPass

Developer Platform
E-Commerce
Web Design
Web Development
$685K30 Mar 2020 Norwich, England, United Kingdom

SupaPass

Developer Platform
E-Commerce
Web Design
Web Development
$548K30 Dec 2018 United Kingdom, England

Lightpoint Medical

Biotechnology
Medical
Medical Device
$6M06 Dec 2018 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

OBRIZUM Group Ltd.

Artificial Intelligence
EdTech
$1M28 Jun 2018 United Kingdom, England
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