CIT GAP Funds

Location

Richmond, United States

Total investments

236

Average round size

634K

Portfolio companies

183

Rounds per year

11.24

Lead investments

40

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

35

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurity

Summary

In 2003 was created CIT GAP Funds, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Herndon.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from CIT GAP Funds is 1-5 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this CIT GAP Funds performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the CIT GAP Funds, startups are often financed by Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Center for Innovative Technology, Acceleprise. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Dominion Angels, J. Hunt Holdings, Blu Venture Investors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Dominion Angels, New Enterprise Associates, Osage Venture Partners.

We also calculated 12 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Distil Networks, ThreatQuotient, VanGogh Imaging The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Internet. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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 States.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
236
Lead investments
40
Exits
35
Rounds per year
11.24
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (64)
  • SaaS (34)
  • Health Care (31)
  • Information Technology (28)
  • Biotechnology (27)
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Investments by region
  • United States (224)
  • Canada (2)
  • India (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • France (3)
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Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
13M
Group Appearance index
0.39
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
1.04

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fenris 07 Apr 2021 FinTech, Machine Learning, SaaS, Insurance, InsurTech, Predictive Analytics, Commercial Insurance, Property Insurance, Life Insurance, Auto Insurance Seed 2M United States, Virginia, Glen Allen
Happied 28 Feb 2022 Food and Beverage, Event Management Seed 1M United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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