Cayuga Venture Fund
30
6M
17
1.03
5
0.43
8
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Cayuga Venture Fund appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1994. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Ithaca.
The high activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Cayuga Venture Fund works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Consumer Electronics. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Rheonix, Agronomic Technology Corp, itellio.
The current fund was established by Phil Proujansky. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Cayuga Venture Fund, startups are often financed by Rand Capital, TeleSoft Partners, Great Oaks Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rand Capital, Excell Partners, DFJ. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rand Capital, Gefinor Capital, Onondaga Venture Capital Fund.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 30
- Lead investments
- 5
- Exits
- 8
- Rounds per year
- 1.03
- Follow on index
- 0.43
- Investments by industry
- Manufacturing (8)
- Telecommunications (6)
- Social Media (6)
- Charity (5)
- Crowdfunding (5) Show 47 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (30)
- Peak activity year
- 2014
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 14
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 61M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.73
- Avg. company exit year
- 10
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.04
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BinOptics | 15 Nov 2006 | Manufacturing, Product Design, Telecommunications | Late Stage Venture | 6M | United States, New York, Ithaca |
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