Cambridge Accelerator Partners
www.capartners.co.ukCAP Partners came together in 2003 to address a market need for early stage investors that had both "attitude" and a friendly interface with entrepreneurs.
The founders believed that whilst Silicon Valley boasted a generation of entrepreneurs recycling experience, talent and funds to new technology companies: the European venture community, in general, had yet to deliver both the hands-on contribution to entrepreneurs and the consequential growth in value and returns.
Staff
 John Snyder, PartnerJohn is a serial entrepreneur who spun out the Muscat technology from Cambridge University in 1992. As CEO, John built Muscat into a profitable business servicing international clients including Reuters, Nokia, NASA, BBC and The Telegraph. Muscat was sold in 1997 to The Dialog Corporation, a FTSE and NASDAQ quoted company. John continued as Chairman of Muscat and was CEO of Webtop, a new subsidiary within The Dialog Corporation, subsequently renamed Brightstation plc. In 2001 John returned to Cambridge University to head the Business Creation unit at the new Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, where he developed and ran a mentor-based start-up acceleration programme and subsequently invented the “Accelerator Process”. In 2002 John was Chairman of the 5th Cambridge Enterprise Conference. He also co-founded Library House, the buy-side research house that brings together investors and early stage companies. John is a Founder Member of Cambridge Angels, and also co-founder and Chairman of Full Moon Cambridge, a forum for technology Founders and CEOs. John has an MA in Social & Political Science from Christ’s College, Cambridge. |  Alexander Straub, PartnerUntil recently Alexander was a Principal and Director at Lazard Technology Partners II in New York, a $305m venture technology fund focused on early to late stage companies in the areas of software, telecom and the internet. Prior to managing technology funds, Alexander was the founder and CEO of Mondus, a successful b2b internet startup, which he founded whilst a postgraduate at the University of Oxford. The company won the 3i Sunday Times Technology Catapult competition and was initially funded with £1million. Mondus was partially acquired in 2000 by SEAT Pagine Gialle (Milan:PG.MI), Italy’s “Yellow Pages”. Since then, Alexander has continued to act as a Board Member and Vice Chairman of Mondus. Alexander’s education includes studies at TU Darmstadt, Germany (Diplom Ingenieur), Stanford University and Cornell University, where he earned his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (MEng) and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Alexander is an active private investor, and most recently co-invested alongside Siemens Ventures and Innotech VC into the software company Portum AG, which provides on-demand e-sourcing solutions to Fortune 2000 companies. |
 David Cummings, PartnerDavid had sixteen years experience at Lazard, the independent private investment bank. As a Managing Director in the Telecom, Media and Technology Group, he gained significant exposure to a wide variety of M&A, debt restructuring and equity capital markets based on transaction experience of more than a decade in the Telecom and Technology sectors. David has a wide ranging personal network with emerging technology companies and acted as a conduit for technology venture deal flow in the UK. He supported the establishment of Lazard Technology Partners’ arm in London, where he was a member of the Investment Committee. He was also responsible in London for investment in leading technology funds and is currently an Advisory Board member of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited. David has an MA in Natural Sciences from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and an MSc from London Business School |  Martin Bloom, PartnerMartin is an investor in early stage high technology companies in the UK and US. Following a career as a corporate strategist with Unilever, and over 20 years experience in strategic partnering, technology commercialisation and business strategy, Martin became a full-time investor in 1997. He co-invests with established venture funds and investment groups involved with early stage technology investing. Martin is an active networker and is a member of Cambridge Angels, ISIS Angels, and the LBS Enterprise 100. Martin is also a shareholder of Library House, a Director of Brunel University Enterprises Limited, and an Advisory Board Member of the UK Technology Partnering and Investment Forum 2004. Martin has extensive connections to the commercialisation of new technology in Asia: he is a Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Technology Network, has been involved with the UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forum for more than 15 years and reviewed technology businesses in China for the 2003 UK-China Enterprise Competition. Martin has a B.Sc (Soc.Sc.) in Economics from the University of Southampton and an MSc in the History of Science jointly from Imperial College and University College, London. |
Contact details
CAP Partners LLP
c/o Library House
Kett House
Station Road
Cambridge
CB1 2JY
United Kingdom
c/o Library House
Kett House
Station Road
Cambridge
CB1 2JY
United Kingdom
