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EC1 Capital

Founders Julian Carter

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Total investments 33
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 25
Rounds per year 3.30
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Travel
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Media
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HypaShip

Delivery
E-Commerce
Retail
Software
$1M07 Sep 2017 England

WeSwap

Financial Exchanges
FinTech
Leisure
Travel
$8M11 Jul 2016 England

User Replay

Customer Service
Software
Technical Support
$4M24 Feb 2016 Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Kontainers

E-Commerce
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$1M27 Oct 2015 England

Big Data for Humans

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
E-Commerce
Predictive Analytics
Software
Travel
$1M10 Sep 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Twizoo

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Publishing
Social Media
Twitter
$1M02 Apr 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Tailster

Apps
E-Commerce
iOS
Pet
08 Mar 2015 United Kingdom, England

Obvious Engineering

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Mobile
Product Design
Software
01 Feb 2015 United Kingdom, England

User Replay

Customer Service
Software
Technical Support
$3M30 Oct 2014 Morristown, New Jersey, United States

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Total investments 33
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 3.30
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HypaShip

Delivery
E-Commerce
Retail
Software
$1M07 Sep 2017 England

WeSwap

Financial Exchanges
FinTech
Leisure
Travel
$8M11 Jul 2016 England

User Replay

Customer Service
Software
Technical Support
$4M24 Feb 2016 Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Kontainers

E-Commerce
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$1M27 Oct 2015 England

Big Data for Humans

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
E-Commerce
Predictive Analytics
Software
Travel
$1M10 Sep 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Twizoo

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Publishing
Social Media
Twitter
$1M02 Apr 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Tailster

Apps
E-Commerce
iOS
Pet
08 Mar 2015 United Kingdom, England

Obvious Engineering

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Mobile
Product Design
Software
01 Feb 2015 United Kingdom, England

User Replay

Customer Service
Software
Technical Support
$3M30 Oct 2014 Morristown, New Jersey, United States
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