Cicada Innovations

Summary

Cicada Innovations is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2000. The company was established in Australia. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Sydney.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Cicada Innovations the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. This Cicada Innovations works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Cicada Innovations, startups are often financed by muru-D, Valar Ventures, UBS. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Blackbird Ventures (Australia), ZhenFund, Wellcome Trust. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Blackbird Ventures (Australia), Y Combinator, Qualcomm Ventures.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Clarity Pharmaceuticals, Clarity Pharmaceuticals, Propeller Aero. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Travel, Robotics. 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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Australia.