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Airbus

Founders Bernard Lathiere Felix Kracht Franz Josef Strauss Henri Ziegler Roger Beteille

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$86M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.13
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Key employees 35
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Aerospace
  • Machine Learning
  • Geospatial
  • Photo Sharing
  • Computer Vision
Summary

In 2000 was created Airbus, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Blagnac.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Airbus is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline OneWeb, HawkEye 360, BLADE Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Photo Sharing, Crowdsourcing. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Airbus, startups are often financed by Razor's Edge Ventures, Raine Ventures, David Zaslav. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Virgin Group, Totalplay, SoftBank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank, Slow Ventures, SV Angel.

Besides them, we counted 35 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HawkEye 360

Aerospace
Analytics
Wireless
$70M06 Aug 2019 Virginia, United States

EarthNow

Big Data
Computer Vision
Geospatial
GreenTech
Machine Learning
Photo Sharing
Video Streaming
19 Apr 2018 Bellevue, Washington, United States

BLADE

Aerospace
Crowdsourcing
Travel
$38M22 Mar 2018 New York, New York, United States

OneWeb

Aerospace
Database
Internet
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$500M26 Jun 2015 England

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Total investments 7
Average round size 86M
Rounds per year 0.13
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 2
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HawkEye 360

Aerospace
Analytics
Wireless
$70M06 Aug 2019 Virginia, United States

EarthNow

Big Data
Computer Vision
Geospatial
GreenTech
Machine Learning
Photo Sharing
Video Streaming
19 Apr 2018 Bellevue, Washington, United States

BLADE

Aerospace
Crowdsourcing
Travel
$38M22 Mar 2018 New York, New York, United States

OneWeb

Aerospace
Database
Internet
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$500M26 Jun 2015 England
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