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Crescent Capital

Founders Colin Walsh

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Total investments 39
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 1.39
Lead investments 15
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 13
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Manufacturing
  • Computer
  • Health Care
  • Electronics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ostaz

Education
Education and Training Services (B2B)
Educational and Training Services (B2C)
Educational Software
Enterprise Software
Mobile Apps
Peer to Peer
$1M27 Sep 2020 Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon

Right Revenue

Analytics
Hospitality
$548K19 Dec 2019 Northern Ireland

Integrity Marketing Group

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Marketing
$945M16 Sep 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Right Revenue

Analytics
Hospitality
$616K01 Mar 2019 Northern Ireland

Photonic Measurements

Electronics
Manufacturing
$959K20 Dec 2018 Northern Ireland

Computer
Health Care
Software
10 Feb 2017 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Shnuggle

Computer
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Manufacturing
Product Design
01 Jan 2017 United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Ampliphae

Compliance
IT Management
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$1M02 Mar 2016 Belfast, Northern Ireland

Power Grid
01 Jan 2016 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Total investments 39
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 1.39
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 15
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.46

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ostaz

Education
Education and Training Services (B2B)
Educational and Training Services (B2C)
Educational Software
Enterprise Software
Mobile Apps
Peer to Peer
$1M27 Sep 2020 Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon

Right Revenue

Analytics
Hospitality
$548K19 Dec 2019 Northern Ireland

Integrity Marketing Group

Advertising
Digital Marketing
Marketing
$945M16 Sep 2019 Dallas, Texas, United States

Right Revenue

Analytics
Hospitality
$616K01 Mar 2019 Northern Ireland

Photonic Measurements

Electronics
Manufacturing
$959K20 Dec 2018 Northern Ireland

Computer
Health Care
Software
10 Feb 2017 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Shnuggle

Computer
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Manufacturing
Product Design
01 Jan 2017 United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Ampliphae

Compliance
IT Management
Risk Management
SaaS
Software
$1M02 Mar 2016 Belfast, Northern Ireland

Power Grid
01 Jan 2016 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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