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ARPA-E

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 4.57
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 3
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Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • CleanTech
  • Manufacturing
  • Clean Energy
Summary

In 2009 was created ARPA-E, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Washington.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Primus Power, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Kyma Technologies The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy, Advanced Materials. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the ARPA-E, startups are often financed by RockPort Capital, Triangle Peak Partners, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are US Department of Energy, DBL Investors, California Energy Commission. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by I2BF Global Ventures, Anglo American Platinum, Tumml.

This ARPA-E works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sortera Alloys

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$2M13 Oct 2020 Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Primus Power

Battery
CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$20M04 Feb 2014 Hayward, California, United States

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Total investments 64
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 4.57
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.09

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sortera Alloys

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$2M13 Oct 2020 Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Primus Power

Battery
CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$20M04 Feb 2014 Hayward, California, United States
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