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Springboard

Founders Amir Chaudhry Jon Bradford Paul Spurgeon

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Total investments 37
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$134K
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 2.85
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Software
  • Advertising
  • Information Technology
  • Education
Summary

Springboard appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2009. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Cambridge.

The current fund was established by Amir Chaudhry, Jon Bradford.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Hassle.com Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Advertising. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Springboard is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The high activity for fund was in 2012. Opposing the other organizations, this Springboard works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Springboard, startups are often financed by Wayra, Startupbootcamp FinTech London, Startupbootcamp. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HardGamma Ventures, Brand Capital, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pitch@Palace, Ventech, Playfair Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cybertonica

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Payments
Risk Management
$2M14 Jan 2020 England

Poppilu

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
14 May 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mellow

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Hardware
01 May 2016 California, United States

Tastebuds

Dating
Music
10 Nov 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

iChef

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$1M20 Oct 2015 Maharashtra

VIVO Healthcare

Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
23 Sep 2015 Haryana

PlayMob

Advertising
Analytics
Apps
Brand Marketing
Cause Marketing
Charity
Mobile
Social Media
01 Dec 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

WICASTR

Cloud Computing
Hardware
Internet of Things
Mobile
Software
Wireless
$50K16 Feb 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

The Backscratchers

Advertising
Collaboration
Communities
Enterprise
Internet
Reputation
$200K01 Jan 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 37
Average round size 134K
Rounds per year 2.85
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cybertonica

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Fraud Detection
Machine Learning
Payments
Risk Management
$2M14 Jan 2020 England

Poppilu

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Manufacturing
14 May 2018 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mellow

Consumer Electronics
E-Commerce
Hardware
01 May 2016 California, United States

Tastebuds

Dating
Music
10 Nov 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

iChef

E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
$1M20 Oct 2015 Maharashtra

VIVO Healthcare

Health Care
Hospital
Medical Device
23 Sep 2015 Haryana

PlayMob

Advertising
Analytics
Apps
Brand Marketing
Cause Marketing
Charity
Mobile
Social Media
01 Dec 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

WICASTR

Cloud Computing
Hardware
Internet of Things
Mobile
Software
Wireless
$50K16 Feb 2014 London, England, United Kingdom

The Backscratchers

Advertising
Collaboration
Communities
Enterprise
Internet
Reputation
$200K01 Jan 2014 London, England, United Kingdom
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