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Gravitation

Founders Charles Beigbeder

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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 4
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 1
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Renewable Energy
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Image Recognition
  • Electric Vehicle
Summary

The fund was created by Charles Beigbeder. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2016. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Gravitation works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Gravitation, startups are often financed by Starquest Capital, Paca Investissement, Orkos Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Starquest Capital, Sigma Gestion, Orkos Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Valeo, Sigma Gestion.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Image Recognition. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline NAVYA

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Le Philtre Vodka

Brewing
Food and Beverage
Wine And Spirits
01 Mar 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Spark lasers

Manufacturing
$1M27 Sep 2017 France, New Aquitaine

NAVYA

Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Image Recognition
Information Technology
Robotics
Transportation
$4M20 Jan 2016 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Total investments 6
Average round size 3M
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.83

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Le Philtre Vodka

Brewing
Food and Beverage
Wine And Spirits
01 Mar 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Spark lasers

Manufacturing
$1M27 Sep 2017 France, New Aquitaine

NAVYA

Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Image Recognition
Information Technology
Robotics
Transportation
$4M20 Jan 2016 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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