Are you a cybersecurity scaleup founder looking to pitch C5 Capital for investment? Well you’d want to get your IP in order and secure at least one blue chip customer first.
That’s the advice from Daniel Freeman, chief investment director at C5 Capital, a family-backed tech investment fund with offices in London, Bahrain, Luxembourg and Washington.
“From our perspective, the companies that we invest in must be in the areas of cybersecurity, data analytics and cloud computing.
“We look for companies that have developed both strong IP or trade craft as well as having a blue-chip reference customer that is already using the product,” he told Tech City News.
The firm, which takes a pan-European approach, acquired ITC Secure Networking for £24m in November last year and is due to announce the closure of a $100m tech investment fund next month....