Columbia Lake Partners

Type

Venture Debt

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

31

Average round size

15M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

3.10

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

3

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareBrand Marketing

Summary

In 2014 was created Columbia Lake Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Customer Service, Machine Learning. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Showpad, Amplience, Pollen. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Columbia Lake Partners performs on 14 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The fund was created by Craig Netterfield.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Columbia Lake Partners, startups are often financed by Octopus Ventures, Delta Partners, Enterprise Ireland. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Silicon Valley Bank, Octopus Ventures, Draper Esprit. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Draper Esprit, Cipio Partners, Octopus Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Series A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
2M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.10
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Software (15)
  • SaaS (11)
  • E-Commerce (9)
  • Enterprise Software (6)
  • Internet (6)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (19)
  • Switzerland (2)
  • Spain (2)
  • Germany (3)
  • Denmark (1)
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Peak activity year
2017
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
77M
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
8
Strategy success index
0.40

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