ABB Technology Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Zürich, Switzerland

Total investments

57

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

3.80

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyRoboticsManufacturingInternet of ThingsEnergyRenewable EnergyElectric VehicleIndustrial AutomationPower Grid

Summary

ABB Technology Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The main department of described VC is located in the Zu00fcrich. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland. ABB Technology Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the ABB Technology Ventures, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GE Ventures, Formation 8, DFJ. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GE Ventures, DFJ, Watrium AS.

This organization was formed by Andrew Tang, Girish Nadkarni, Grant Allen, Kurt Kaltenegger.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Kespry, Power Assure, MineSense Technologies Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Software.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this ABB Technology Ventures performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from ABB Technology Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EnergyProptech/Real EstateMobilityManufacturingRobotics Show 4 more
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
57
Lead investments
13
Exits
5
Rounds per year
3.80
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (21)
  • Robotics (13)
  • Energy (10)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Renewable Energy (9)
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Investments by region
  • United States (27)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Israel (5)
  • India (4)
  • Sweden (4)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
90M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.96
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Automata 19 Mar 2019 Information Technology, Robotics, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Industrial Automation Early Stage Venture 7M England, London, United Kingdom
Automated Architecture 20 Mar 2024 Robotics, Manufacturing, Web Development, Architecture Seed 3M South West, Bristol, United Kingdom

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