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Saffron Hill Ventures

Founders Ranjeet Bhatia Shawn Luetchens

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 0.91
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 8
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics
  • Textiles
  • Sustainability
Summary

In 2000 was created Saffron Hill Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The current fund was established by Ranjeet Bhatia, Shawn Luetchens. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Textiles, Mobile. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CXignited, QuesCom, Optasia Medical The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The important activity for fund was in 2010. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. When the investment is from Saffron Hill Ventures the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Saffron Hill Ventures performs on 0 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Saffron Hill Ventures, startups are often financed by Spectrum Equity, Endeavour Vision, Amadeus Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Endeavour Vision, Elliott Management Corp., Draper Esprit. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Stuart Mill Venture Partners, Point Financial, Inc., Endeavour Vision.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Agilyx AS

Recycling
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
$25M19 Dec 2011 Oslo, Norway

Marrone Bio Innovations

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Water Purification
$25M01 Jun 2011 California, United States

Agilyx AS

Recycling
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
$4M27 Apr 2009 Oslo, Norway

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Animation
Film
Media and Entertainment
Mobile
Software
$6M01 Dec 2008 Santa Monica, California, United States

Marrone Bio Innovations

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Water Purification
$3M02 May 2007 California, United States

CXignited

Electronics
Information Technology
RFID
Textiles
$35M26 May 2006 New York, New York, United States

Health Language,Inc.

Health Care
Software
$7M01 Nov 2002 Denver, Colorado, United States

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Total investments 20
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 0.91
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Agilyx AS

Recycling
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
$25M19 Dec 2011 Oslo, Norway

Marrone Bio Innovations

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Water Purification
$25M01 Jun 2011 California, United States

Agilyx AS

Recycling
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
$4M27 Apr 2009 Oslo, Norway

Image Metrics

Animation
Film
Media and Entertainment
Mobile
Software
$6M01 Dec 2008 Santa Monica, California, United States

Marrone Bio Innovations

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Water Purification
$3M02 May 2007 California, United States

CXignited

Electronics
Information Technology
RFID
Textiles
$35M26 May 2006 New York, New York, United States

Health Language,Inc.

Health Care
Software
$7M01 Nov 2002 Denver, Colorado, United States
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