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CIC Partners

Founders Fouad Bashour Marshall Payne Michael Rawlings

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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 10
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.18
Exits 4
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • Restaurants
  • Hospitality
  • Food Delivery
  • Bakery
Summary

In 2004 was created CIC Partners, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Dallas.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the CIC Partners, startups are often financed by Tikehau Investment Management, Societe Generale, Plough Penny Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tikehau Capital, Next Generation Ventures, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Capstar Partners.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This CIC Partners works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2007.

The fund was created by Fouad Bashour, Marshall Payne, Michael Rawlings. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 Talan, TIFFS TREATS HOLDINGS, SignStorey. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Digital Media, Consulting. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tiff's Treats

Bakery
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Hospitality
Restaurants
$11M01 Nov 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Restaurants
$12M12 Aug 2008 Dallas, Texas, United States

SignStorey

Digital Media
News
Retail
$18M01 Jan 2005 Connecticut, United States

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Total investments 17
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.18
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.41

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tiff's Treats

Bakery
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Hospitality
Restaurants
$11M01 Nov 2016 Austin, Texas, United States

Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Restaurants
$12M12 Aug 2008 Dallas, Texas, United States

SignStorey

Digital Media
News
Retail
$18M01 Jan 2005 Connecticut, United States
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