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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 40
Rounds per year 3.92
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 3
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
Summary

In 2011 was created Martlet, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Cambridge. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Undo, PervasID, Repositive Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Advanced Materials.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. When the investment is from Martlet the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Martlet performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Martlet, startups are often financed by Cambridge Angels group, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Jaan Tallinn. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Parkwalk Advisors, IQ Capital, University of Cambridge Enterprise. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IQ Capital, Parkwalk Advisors, Longwall Venture Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xampla

Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$7M30 Jan 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

OctaiPipe

Information Technology
Internet
$4M23 Jan 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Nu Quantum

Information Technology
Network Security
Telecommunications
$9M02 Nov 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Strolll Neurotechnology

$2M17 Oct 2023 -

Pencil Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M28 Sep 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

RoboK

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Software
$2M29 Jun 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

PharmEnable

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$8M22 May 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

NunaBio

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Product Research
$2M20 Apr 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, United Kingdom

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Total investments 51
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 3.92
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xampla

Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$7M30 Jan 2024 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

OctaiPipe

Information Technology
Internet
$4M23 Jan 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Nu Quantum

Information Technology
Network Security
Telecommunications
$9M02 Nov 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Strolll Neurotechnology

$2M17 Oct 2023 -

Pencil Biosciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
$7M28 Sep 2023 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

RoboK

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles
Software
$2M29 Jun 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

PharmEnable

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$8M22 May 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

NunaBio

Biotechnology
Life Science
Medical
Product Research
$2M20 Apr 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, United Kingdom
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