Airbus Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

86

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

54

Rounds per year

9.56

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsAerospaceAutonomous VehiclesSpace Travel

Summary

In 2016 was created Airbus Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Humatics, AEye, IonQ. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Automotive.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Airbus Ventures, startups are often financed by VTF Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Social Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Partech, Serena. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Serena, Road Ventures, Pegasus Tech Ventures.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Airbus Ventures works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAerospaceMobilityEnergyClimate tech Show 2 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
86
Lead investments
15
Exits
2
Rounds per year
9.56
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (33)
  • Automotive (18)
  • Artificial Intelligence (18)
  • Aerospace (18)
  • Information Technology (17)
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Investments by region
  • United States (50)
  • Japan (7)
  • Switzerland (6)
  • Germany (2)
  • Belgium (4)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
79M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
1.77
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

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