Ruffena Capital

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

7

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.88

Exits

3

Areas of investment
Food ProductsBiotechnologyOther HealthcareInformation ServicesFitnessSaaSManufacturingPharmaceuticalTherapeuticsNutrition

Summary

Ruffena Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Ruffena Capital, startups are often financed by Midven, Innovate UK, SevenMile Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SyndicateRoom, Seventure Partners, Oxford Technology Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Horizon 2020, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Permira Debt Managers.

The overall number of key employees were 7.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Ruffena Capital works on 14 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Analytics. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cambrooke Therapeutics, Lightpoint Medical, appScatter. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom.

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Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.88
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • SaaS (2)
  • Information Services (2)
  • Manufacturing (2)
  • Fitness (1)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Group Appearance index
0.57
Avg. company exit year
11

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fantoo 01 May 2015 Software, Information Services, Messaging, SaaS, Productivity Tools, Consumer Software Seed 685K England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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