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Ruffer

Founders Jonathan Ruffer

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.11
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Infrastructure
  • Software
  • Data Center
  • Fashion
  • Shopping
Summary

Ruffer is the famous VC, which was founded in 1994. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund was created by Jonathan Ruffer.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Nlyte Software, Koovs Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Lifestyle, Infrastructure. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2010.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Ruffer, startups are often financed by Balderton Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NGEN Partners, Lord Waheed Alli, Balderton Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HT Media Ltd, Future Group.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nlyte Software

Data Center
Infrastructure
Software
$12M21 Nov 2010 California, United States

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Total investments 3
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 0.11
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nlyte Software

Data Center
Infrastructure
Software
$12M21 Nov 2010 California, United States
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