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Catapult Ventures

Founders Darren Liccardo Rouz Jazayeri

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Total investments 103
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 79
Rounds per year 4.12
Lead investments 17
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 27
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Medical
Summary

Catapult Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1999. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Leicester.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Catapult Ventures, startups are often financed by South East Growth Fund & Management, Oxford Capital Partners, Spark Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Midven, Spark Ventures, South East Growth Fund & Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by South East Growth Fund & Management, Oxford Capital Partners, Octopus Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Clinical Trials. 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. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Abzena plc, AMR Centre, MicroBioSensor

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2008. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Catapult Ventures works on 0 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CroBio

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Farming
$1M23 Apr 2024 Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Pencil Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M28 Sep 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

QV Bioelectronics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Electronics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
Nanotechnology
Neuroscience
$2M10 Jan 2023 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Urban Machine

Building Material
Robotics
$5M08 Dec 2022 -

Pickle Robot

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Manufacturing
Robotics
$26M15 Nov 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Strella Biotechnology

Big Data
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Hardware
Sensor
Supply Chain Management
$8M07 Jun 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Urban Machine

Building Material
Robotics
$1M12 Nov 2021 -

Camect

Internet of Things
Security
Software
$1M18 Jun 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Strella Biotechnology

Big Data
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Hardware
Sensor
Supply Chain Management
$3M30 Apr 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
News
Oculii Raises $55M in Series B Funding

– Oculii, a maker of high-resolution commercial imaging 4D radar, raised $55M in Series B funding.
– The round was co-led by Catapult Ventures and Conductive Ventures, with participation from Taiwania Capital, Susquehanna Investment Group (SIG), HELLA Ventures, PHI-Zoyi Capital, R7 Partners, VectoIQ, ACVC Partners, Mesh Ventures, SV Tech Ventures, Schox Ventures, and Signature Bank.
– The new funding will be used to scale and deliver on demand of Tier-1’s and OEMs globally.

Maxwellia Raises £3.2M in Funding

– Maxwellia is an Alderley Park, UK-based self-care company.
– The company raised £3.2m in funding led by Praetura Ventures with participation from the Future Fund, Catapult Ventures, Alderley Park Ventures and Biocity along with individual and angel investors.
– The new investment will be used to scale up the manufacture and rollout of drugs following MHRA approval.
– Maxwellia’s chief executive Anna Maxwell is a pharmacist with over 20 years’ experience.

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Total investments 103
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 4.12
Peak activity year 2008
Lead investments 17
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 27
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CroBio

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Farming
$1M23 Apr 2024 Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Pencil Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M28 Sep 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

QV Bioelectronics

Advanced Materials
Biotechnology
Electronics
Health Care
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
Nanotechnology
Neuroscience
$2M10 Jan 2023 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Urban Machine

Building Material
Robotics
$5M08 Dec 2022 -

Pickle Robot

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Manufacturing
Robotics
$26M15 Nov 2022 Massachusetts, United States

Strella Biotechnology

Big Data
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Hardware
Sensor
Supply Chain Management
$8M07 Jun 2022 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Urban Machine

Building Material
Robotics
$1M12 Nov 2021 -

Camect

Internet of Things
Security
Software
$1M18 Jun 2020 Mountain View, California, United States

Strella Biotechnology

Big Data
Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Hardware
Sensor
Supply Chain Management
$3M30 Apr 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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