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Cycad Group

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 16
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Health Care
  • Clinical Trials
  • Medical
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lixivia

Chemical
Industrial
Mining
Precious Metals
01 Jan 2021 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Formetrix Metals

Manufacturing
01 Jan 2020 Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States

Visterra

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$23M05 Oct 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

UNITY Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$35M17 Aug 2017 California, United States

Agile RF Systems

RFID
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
01 Jan 2016 Berthoud, Colorado, United States

ClarVista Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$14M20 May 2015 California, United States

Visterra

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$30M02 Oct 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

ImaginAb

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$21M08 May 2014 Inglewood, California, United States

SOFIE

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$5M15 Oct 2013 California, United States

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Total investments 28
Average round size 18M
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lixivia

Chemical
Industrial
Mining
Precious Metals
01 Jan 2021 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Formetrix Metals

Manufacturing
01 Jan 2020 Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States

Visterra

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$23M05 Oct 2017 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

UNITY Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
$35M17 Aug 2017 California, United States

Agile RF Systems

RFID
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
01 Jan 2016 Berthoud, Colorado, United States

ClarVista Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$14M20 May 2015 California, United States

Visterra

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Diagnostics
Therapeutics
$30M02 Oct 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

ImaginAb

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
$21M08 May 2014 Inglewood, California, United States

SOFIE

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
$5M15 Oct 2013 California, United States
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