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Sigma Capital Group

Founders Graham Barnet Mustafa Abdel-Wadood Phuti Mahanyele

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Total investments 16
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.19
Exits 8
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Biotechnology
Summary

Sigma Capital Group appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1996. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Edinburgh.

The current fund was established by Graham Barnet, Mustafa Abdel-Wadood, Phuti Mahanyele.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Sigma Capital Group, startups are often financed by Scottish Investment Bank, LINC Scotland. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Scottish Investment Bank, Tweed Renaissance Investors Capital, Scottish Enterprise. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Scottish Investment Bank, West Coast Capital, Tweed Renaissance Investors Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2005. Opposing the other organizations, this Sigma Capital Group works on 2 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FibroGen, Exterity, Nandi Proteins. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Internet.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Building Material
Construction
Energy
$548K17 Apr 2009 Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Factonomy

Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
$1M30 May 2008 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

i-design Multimedia

Enterprise Software
Software
$1M12 Dec 2005 Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Logicalware

Customer Service
Internet
SaaS
Software
Ticketing
$411K23 Jun 2005 Falkirk, Falkirk, United Kingdom

i-design Multimedia

Enterprise Software
Software
$250K01 Nov 2004 United Kingdom, Dundee

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Total investments 16
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.19
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Building Material
Construction
Energy
$548K17 Apr 2009 Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Factonomy

Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Software
$1M30 May 2008 United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

i-design Multimedia

Enterprise Software
Software
$1M12 Dec 2005 Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Logicalware

Customer Service
Internet
SaaS
Software
Ticketing
$411K23 Jun 2005 Falkirk, Falkirk, United Kingdom

i-design Multimedia

Enterprise Software
Software
$250K01 Nov 2004 United Kingdom, Dundee
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