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Columbia Lake Partners

Founders Craig Netterfield

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 3.10
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 3
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • E-Commerce
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thinksurance

Commercial Insurance
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Internet
SaaS
$25M14 Jun 2023 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Goodlord

Mobile Payments
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$36M30 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Ometria

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Marketing Automation
SaaS
$40M11 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Factorial

B2B
Business Information Systems
Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Productivity Tools
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$80M06 Sep 2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Scoro

Project Management
SaaS
Software
$16M09 Mar 2021 England

Kandou Bus

Electronics
Energy
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$36M17 Nov 2020 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Kandou Bus

Electronics
Energy
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$56M23 Sep 2019 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Amplience

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Internet
Software
$37M26 Apr 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Quantemplate

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
InsurTech
Machine Learning
$3M12 Dec 2017 United Kingdom, England
News
Factorial Closes a Series B Funding Round with $80 Million

– Factorial, a Barcelona-based HR software company that streamlines people management, has closed an $80m Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from previous investors CRV, Creandum, Point Nine, K Fund, and Columbia Lake Partners bringing the total funding amount to $100m.
– Factorial, which serves thousands of clients in more than 65 countries, has been ranked among the Top 10 most promising startups in Europe. With the new funds, Factorial will expand to new markets, opening offices in the USA and Brazil.

Scoro Raises $16 Million in Series B Funding To Invest In Its End-to-End Work Management Software

– Scoro announced a $16.4m Series B funding round led by Kennet Partners.
– Additional investors include Columbia Lake Partners, Inventure, Livonia Partners and Tera Ventures.
– The investment will fuel continued global expansion and is supported by new French and Spanish versions of the software.
– Scoro’s most recent product launch has been a modernization of the Gantt chart, which had not evolved since its creation at the turn of the 19th Century.
Kennet Partners’ Managing Director Hillel Zidel also joins the Board of Directors, alongside Dave Kellogg. Martin Fincham continues to lead the Board of Directors as Scoro’s Chairman.

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Total investments 31
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 3.10
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.58

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Thinksurance

Commercial Insurance
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Internet
SaaS
$25M14 Jun 2023 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Goodlord

Mobile Payments
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$36M30 Mar 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Ometria

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Marketing Automation
SaaS
$40M11 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Factorial

B2B
Business Information Systems
Employee Benefits
Human Resources
Productivity Tools
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$80M06 Sep 2021 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Scoro

Project Management
SaaS
Software
$16M09 Mar 2021 England

Kandou Bus

Electronics
Energy
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$36M17 Nov 2020 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Kandou Bus

Electronics
Energy
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$56M23 Sep 2019 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Amplience

Brand Marketing
E-Commerce
Internet
Software
$37M26 Apr 2018 London, England, United Kingdom

Quantemplate

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
InsurTech
Machine Learning
$3M12 Dec 2017 United Kingdom, England
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