About Cambridge Capital Group
We are a private syndicate of international business angels, investment funds and co-investment vehicles. Our goal is to support the innovative early-stage technology ventures emanating from Cambridge, London and Oxford. We work closely with universities, incubators and other angel networks to source sophisticated deal flow for our members. Deal flow is initially screened by our investment analyst and is agreed by our team before being put forward to a screening committee of members; analysis, negotiation and due diligence is a collaborative process where members invest in new opportunities as part of a syndicate.
As we are not regulated members must self-certify as High Net Worth Individuals or Sophisticated Investors.
Members have access to our exclusive deal flow platform and quarterly member-only pitching events. We enable members to syndicate investments with leading business angels and co-investment funds. Our members have strong commercial experience ranging from technology entrepreneurs to the City and the professions, owners of substantial private companies and healthcare, engineering and private equity.
Cambridge Capital Group Members Celebrate their 100th Deal
We congratulate Cambridge Capital Group Members who have now made their 100th Investment.
The group has invested more than £25m into 100+ start-ups, mainly in the Cambridge cluster, still Europe’s most important B2B centre. Some companies have received £10k from a single member, others have received £1m-2m from a group syndicate. While some of our portfolio companies have failed due to the high risk nature of investing in start-ups, twelve of our portfolio companies have “exited” profitably over the years, via AIM listings or trade sales, with returns ranging from 2-15X - including four in 2016. The most notable was the $250m sale of the Swiftkey business to Microsoft.
Members of Cambridge Capital Group are private investors and family investment funds drawn from the Cambridge region, London and the Thames Valley as well as international territories such as the Channel Islands and Singapore. They boast a diverse range of sector backgrounds enabling collaboration between group members who co-invest in opportunities that interest them individually.
Sale of portfolio company, Cambridge CMOS Sensors
The second exit of the year so far from the Cambridge Capital Group portfolio, sees Cambridge CMOS Sensors (CCMOSS) sold to Austrian Microsystems (ams), the manufacturer of high performance sensors. CCMOSS is a spinout from Cambridge University which has been developing micro hotplate structures for gas sensing and infrared applications.
Cambridge Capital Group portfolio company sold to Microsoft
AI business Touchtype Limited, developer of Swiftkey, the world beating predictive keyboard app, has been acquired by Microsoft in a cash deal worth $250 million. Angel investors from Cambridge Capital Group enjoyed a high financial return of almost ten times their capital investment Members of Cambridge Capital Group had first invested in the business in 2011 after inviting it to pitch at quarterly investment event when it was a fledgling start-up, and continued to support the company in subsequent capital funding rounds alongside major institutional investors including Octopus and Index.
Cambridge Capital Limited T/A Cambridge Capital Group is not authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Cambridge Capital Group does not and will not give advice as to the merits of entering into any particular transaction. This communication is provided for information only and is not in any circumstances intended to constitute advice as to the merits of the recipient, or any other person buying, selling or subscribing for any investment or engaging in any other transaction. Any person seeking such advice should consult a person authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to give such advice. This communication is exempt from the general restriction (in section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) on the communication of invitations or inducements to engage in investment activity on the ground that it is made to a certified sophisticated investor or high net worth individual; and hence the content has not been approved by an authorised person.
Cambridge Capital Group is a geographically dispersed syndicate of business angels, run as an exclusive network, who co-ordinate their investments in early-stage unquoted technology companies. The team is based at the Hauser Forum Entrepreneurship Centre on the Cambridge West Site and can be contacted by email, should you wish to submit a proposition or find out more about membership.
(Please note that we are a private organisation, not a public forum, and our events are not open to visitors or casual observers; we apply strict criteria for membership and for screening of companies seeking pitching opportunities to the group at one of the formal Cambridge Capital Group events).
