Sigma Capital Group

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Total investments

16

Average round size

23M

Portfolio companies

13

Rounds per year

0.62

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.19

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingEnergySimulationMining

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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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
6
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.62
Follow on index
0.19
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Enterprise Software (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Internet (3)
  • Biotechnology (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (12)
  • United States (2)
  • France (2)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
30M
Group Appearance index
0.69
Avg. company exit year
18

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
IRT Surveys 17 Apr 2009 Building Material, Construction, Energy Early Stage Venture 548K Scotland, Dundee, United Kingdom

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