Crescent Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Belfast, United Kingdom

Total investments

48

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

1.60

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

15

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingComputerElectronicsGovTech

Summary

In 1994 was created Crescent Capital, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Belfast.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight CallidusCloud, Datactics, Gendel. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Computer. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from Crescent Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Crescent Capital performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2010.

The current fund was established by Colin Walsh. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Crescent Capital, startups are often financed by Sara Lee Corporation, Invest Northern Ireland, Alpine Technology Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Clarendon Fund Managers, QUBIS, Invest Northern Ireland. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Equity, Clarendon Fund Managers, Thompson Clive and Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Manufacturing
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
United Kingdom, Northern Ireland

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 1000000000
Fund raised date
2023-04-10

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
18
Exits
15
Rounds per year
1.60
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Software (19)
  • Manufacturing (11)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Computer (5)
  • Electronics (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • Malaysia (2)
  • United Kingdom (28)
  • Ireland (4)
  • Lebanon (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
21
Avg. valuation at time of investment
68M
Group Appearance index
0.52
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
13.44
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Airex Energy 10 Jun 2014 Energy Efficiency, Waste Management Seed 2M Canada, Quebec, Laval
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Humain 01 Jan 2017 Software, 3D Technology, Animation, Media and Entertainment, Video Games Seed Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom
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