CyLon Ventures

Summary

CyLon is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The typical startup value when the investment from CyLon is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this CyLon works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The fund was created by Alex van Someren, Grace Cassy, Jonathan Luff.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the CyLon, startups are often financed by GCHQ Cyber Accelerator, muru-D, Tom James. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are muru-D, Winton Ventures, TYLT Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Amadeus Capital Partners, Winton Ventures, Startup Funding Club.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Tessian, Hazy, Galaxkey Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security.