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Shell Ventures

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Total investments 149
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$26M
Portfolio companies 101
Rounds per year 5.32
Lead investments 36
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 7
Key employees 16
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Software
  • Oil and Gas
  • Information Technology
Summary

Shell Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 1996. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in The Netherlands. Shell Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Rijswijk.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. This Shell Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 33 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sonnen, Aquion Energy, Sense. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Oil and Gas, Solar. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Shell Ventures, startups are often financed by Energy Impact Partners, Prelude Ventures, LLC, GE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prelude Ventures, LLC, Energy Impact Partners, Capricorn Investment Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Energy Impact Partners, Prelude Ventures, LLC, Capricorn Investment Group.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mantel

Environmental Consulting
$30M05 Sep 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FreshBus

E-Commerce
Electric Vehicle
Travel
$11M13 Aug 2024 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Avnos

Energy
Environmental Engineering
Water
$36M06 Feb 2024 Santa Monica, California, United States

AiDash

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Geospatial
Machine Learning
SaaS
$58M23 Jan 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Alt Mobility

Electric Vehicle
Leasing
Logistics
$6M18 Jan 2024 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Enie.nl

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$35M15 Jan 2024 Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Auto Service Finance

Finance
Internet
$54M03 Jan 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Agricarbon

$12M06 Dec 2023 -

Ionomr

Advanced Materials
Battery
Chemical
Clean Energy
Electronics
Fuel Cell
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Water
Water Purification
$20M05 Dec 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
News
XCharge Closes Series B Funding Round

– XCharge is a Beijing, China-based provider of an electric vehicle (EV) charging solution in Asia-Pacific and Europe.
– Company raised $15m in Series B funding.
– Backers included Shell Ventures and other investors.
– The new investment will be used to scale up to meet the accelerated demand in charging services in fast-expanding markets.

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Total investments 149
Average round size 26M
Rounds per year 5.32
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 36
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Mantel

Environmental Consulting
$30M05 Sep 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FreshBus

E-Commerce
Electric Vehicle
Travel
$11M13 Aug 2024 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Avnos

Energy
Environmental Engineering
Water
$36M06 Feb 2024 Santa Monica, California, United States

AiDash

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Geospatial
Machine Learning
SaaS
$58M23 Jan 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Alt Mobility

Electric Vehicle
Leasing
Logistics
$6M18 Jan 2024 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Enie.nl

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$35M15 Jan 2024 Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Auto Service Finance

Finance
Internet
$54M03 Jan 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Agricarbon

$12M06 Dec 2023 -

Ionomr

Advanced Materials
Battery
Chemical
Clean Energy
Electronics
Fuel Cell
Information Technology
Renewable Energy
Water
Water Purification
$20M05 Dec 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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