Cycad Group
28
18M
16
0.43
6
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- Areas of investment
Summary
The main office of represented VC is situated in the Santa Barbara. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Cycad Group, startups are often financed by Polaris Partners, Lux Capital, Flagship Pioneering. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Polaris Partners, SR One, Lux Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Skyline Ventures, SR One.
The overall number of key employees were 1.
Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Cycad Group works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2012. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Solar. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Catalytic Solutions, OvaScience, SOFIE. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 28
- Lead investments
- 0
- Exits
- 6
- Follow on index
- 0.43
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (16)
- Health Diagnostics (7)
- Health Care (7)
- Clinical Trials (6)
- Medical (6) Show 22 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (28)
- Peak activity year
- 2012
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 17
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 26M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.86
- Avg. company exit year
- 9
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.63
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalytic Solutions | 10 Jan 2002 | Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy Efficiency | Late Stage Venture | 30M | United States, California, Oxnard |
| CranioVation | 02 May 2018 | Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Innovation Management | Seed | 642K | United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| Lixivia | 01 Jan 2021 | Chemical, Industrial, Mining, Precious Metals | Seed | United States, California, Santa Barbara |
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