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What does DFJ Esprit invest in?
DFJ Esprit invests most often at Venture and Series A (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Venture Capital & Private Equity.
DFJ Esprit highlights
- 01
72 rounds on record
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Mostly Venture and Series A: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $3.1M
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11 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Sectors
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Based in
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. Tell us the right one.
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first72 appearances
- 2014
11 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Jul
- Jul
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2013
12 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- 2012
14 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Feb
- Jan
- 2011
8 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
7 of 13 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed11 in all
CampanjaBought by [24]7UndisclosedOct 2015
StrikeAdBought by Sizmek$12MMay 2015
SHIFTBought by Brand Networks$50MMay 2015
NeulBought by Huawei Technologies$25MSept 2014
Oxford ImmunotecListed$64MNov 2013
TriboldBought by Sigma SystemsUndisclosedJul 2013
RedKite Financial MarketsBought by NICE SystemsUndisclosedNov 2012
Lagan TechnologiesBought by KANA SoftwareUndisclosedNov 2010
VirtualLogixBought by Red Bend SoftwareUndisclosedSept 2010
Cambridge Positioning SystemsBought by CSR$35MJan 2007
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.