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Daimler

Founders Carl Benz Gottlieb Daimler

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Total investments 55
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$66M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 0.39
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 9
Key employees 16

Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Transportation
  • Mobile
  • Manufacturing
  • Software
Summary

Daimler is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1883. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Stuttgart.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline BAIC BJEV, Careem Networks, Flixbus We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Logistics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler. We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Daimler works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Daimler is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Daimler, startups are often financed by Valor Equity Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Siemens, Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sony Innovation Fund, btov Partners, Valor Equity Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$500M19 Mar 2021 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Rally

Collaborative Consumption
Events
Logistics
Music Venues
SaaS
Sports
Transportation
$4M17 Dec 2019 New York, United States

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
23 Sep 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Volocopter

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Drones
Robotics
Transportation
$59M09 Sep 2019 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
29 Apr 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Consumer
Information Technology
Service Industry
$65M05 Sep 2018 California, United States

Anagog

Android
App Marketing
Banking
Business Intelligence
Digital Marketing
iOS
Marketing Automation
Mobile
Personalization
Retail
$10M26 Feb 2018 Tel Aviv District

StoreDot

Advanced Materials
Battery
Hardware
$60M09 Aug 2017 Tel Aviv District

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$46M25 Jul 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
News
Volocopter Raises €200M in Series D Funding

– Volocopter is a Bruchsal, Germany-based urban air mobility (UAM) company.
– Company raised €200m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by new investors funds managed by BlackRock, Atlantia S.p.A., Avala Capital, Continental AG, Jericho Capital, NTT via its venture capital arm, Tokyo Century, a Japanese leasing company, family offices, and existing investors Geely, Daimler, DB Schenker, Intel Capital, btov Partners, Team Europe, and Klocke Holding.

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Total investments 55
Average round size 66M
Rounds per year 0.39
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$500M19 Mar 2021 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

Rally

Collaborative Consumption
Events
Logistics
Music Venues
SaaS
Sports
Transportation
$4M17 Dec 2019 New York, United States

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
23 Sep 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Volocopter

Aerospace
Air Transportation
Drones
Robotics
Transportation
$59M09 Sep 2019 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

what3words

Automotive
Geospatial
GPS
Infrastructure
Location Based Services
Logistics
Mapping Services
Mobile
Navigation
Software
29 Apr 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Consumer
Information Technology
Service Industry
$65M05 Sep 2018 California, United States

Anagog

Android
App Marketing
Banking
Business Intelligence
Digital Marketing
iOS
Marketing Automation
Mobile
Personalization
Retail
$10M26 Feb 2018 Tel Aviv District

StoreDot

Advanced Materials
Battery
Hardware
$60M09 Aug 2017 Tel Aviv District

Momenta

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Information Services
Mapping Services
Software
$46M25 Jul 2017 Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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