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The Cambridge Gateway Fund

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Video
Summary

The Cambridge Gateway Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Madingley. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this The Cambridge Gateway Fund works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Velocix, Nujira, Antenova.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Cambridge Gateway Fund, startups are often financed by Pentech Ventures, NIF Ventures, FNI Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FNI Venture Capital, Quester, Pentech Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Amadeus Capital Partners, 3i Group, Pentech Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nujira

Hardware
Infrastructure
Telecommunications
$9M30 Jan 2007 England

Velocix

Content Delivery Network
Information Technology
Video
$20M10 Jul 2006 England

Antenova

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$12M20 Jan 2005 South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Velocix

Content Delivery Network
Information Technology
Video
$5M18 Jan 2005 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

DanioLabs

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$4M17 Jan 2005 United Kingdom, England

TeraView

Manufacturing
Product Design
Semiconductor
$8M14 Jan 2004 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Velocix

Content Delivery Network
Information Technology
Video
21 Jul 2003 United Kingdom, England

Antenova

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$9M01 Aug 2002 South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Cyan Technology Ltd

Optical Communication
Wireless
$2M06 Feb 2002 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 13
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nujira

Hardware
Infrastructure
Telecommunications
$9M30 Jan 2007 England

Velocix

Content Delivery Network
Information Technology
Video
$20M10 Jul 2006 England

Antenova

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$12M20 Jan 2005 South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Velocix

Content Delivery Network
Information Technology
Video
$5M18 Jan 2005 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

DanioLabs

Biotechnology
Therapeutics
$4M17 Jan 2005 United Kingdom, England

TeraView

Manufacturing
Product Design
Semiconductor
$8M14 Jan 2004 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Velocix

Content Delivery Network
Information Technology
Video
21 Jul 2003 United Kingdom, England

Antenova

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Software
$9M01 Aug 2002 South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Cyan Technology Ltd

Optical Communication
Wireless
$2M06 Feb 2002 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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