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Elemental Excelerator

Founders Dawn Lippert Jill Sims

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Total investments 133
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 114
Rounds per year 13.30
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 15
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Software
  • Solar
  • Analytics
Summary

In 2012 was created Elemental Excelerator, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Honolulu.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy Efficiency, Solar. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stem, Bidgely, Carbon Lighthouse. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Elemental Excelerator performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Elemental Excelerator is 10-50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

The current fund was established by Dawn Lippert, Jill Sims.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Elemental Excelerator, startups are often financed by StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Apsara Capital, Alumni Ventures Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Total Ventures, Plug and Play, Constellation Technology Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Westly Group, Romulus Capital, innogy Ventures.

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$8M12 May 2021 Kochav Yair, Center District, Israel

Fervo Energy

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Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$28M30 Apr 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

BlocPower

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$8M22 Feb 2021 New York, United States

Ohmconnect

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$20M07 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

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$11M06 Oct 2020 New York, United States

Leap

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$8M17 Jan 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 133
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 13.30
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.19

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Fervo Energy

Clean Energy
Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$138M22 Aug 2022 Berkeley, California, United States

Vibrant Planet

Cloud Data Services
Environmental Consulting
Information Technology
$17M23 Jun 2022 Incline Village, Nevada, United States

Planet FWD

Farming
Food and Beverage
Snack Food
$10M26 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Kando

Enterprise Software
Information Technology
Internet of Things
IT Infrastructure
Network Hardware
Waste Management
Water
$8M12 May 2021 Kochav Yair, Center District, Israel

Fervo Energy

Clean Energy
Energy
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$28M30 Apr 2021 Berkeley, California, United States

BlocPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Smart Cities
$8M22 Feb 2021 New York, United States

Ohmconnect

Computer
Energy
Software
$20M07 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

BlocPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Smart Cities
$11M06 Oct 2020 New York, United States

Leap

Energy
Marketplace
Renewable Energy
Solar
$8M17 Jan 2020 San Francisco, California, United States
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