EC1 Capital

Status

Active

Location

Crawley, United Kingdom

Total investments

33

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

3.30

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinTechAnalyticsMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSocial MediaTravel

Summary

EC1 Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Crawley.

The fund was created by Julian Carter. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This EC1 Capital works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the EC1 Capital, startups are often financed by The FSE Group, Michael Birch, Thames Valley Berkshire Growth Loan Scheme. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Charlotte Street Capital, IW Capital, The FSE Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Episode 1, Downing Ventures, The FSE Group.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Big Data for Humans, User Replay, ClusterHQ. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Enterprise Software, Health Care. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 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.

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Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
13
Exits
5
Rounds per year
3.30
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Software (14)
  • E-Commerce (11)
  • Travel (5)
  • Artificial Intelligence (4)
  • Social Media (4)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (28)
  • United States (4)
  • Ireland (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
2.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Insolight 07 Dec 2016 Manufacturing, Energy, Solar Seed 109K Switzerland, Vaud, Lausanne
Reep Rewards 01 Jun 2014 E-Commerce, Software, Advertising Seed 0 Dublin, Ireland, County Dublin
SM Lab 01 Jul 2018 Manufacturing, Product Design, Electronics Seed Kyongsang-bukto, Ulsan, South Korea
Truly Experiences 24 Feb 2016 E-Commerce, Gift, Lifestyle, Marketplace, Shopping Seed England, London, United Kingdom

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