Aster

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

192

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

64

Rounds per year

8.00

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.67

Exits

13

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingComputerElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyIndustrial

Summary

Aster is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris. The company was established in Europe in France.

Comparing to the other companies, this Aster performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Aster, startups are often financed by Trailblazer Capital, NYSERDA, SJF Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ombu Group, BNP Paribas Du00e9veloppement, Trailblazer Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Energy Access Ventures, Ombu Group, BNP Paribas Du00e9veloppement.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Renewable Energy, Information Technology. 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 popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PEG, Digital Lumens, FINALCAD.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techManufacturingMobilityLogisticsEnergy Show 2 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
192
Lead investments
17
Exits
13
Rounds per year
8.00
Follow on index
0.67
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (61)
  • Electronics (53)
  • Software (43)
  • Information Technology (37)
  • Energy (23)
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Investments by region
  • France (103)
  • United States (36)
  • Netherlands (4)
  • United Kingdom (19)
  • Switzerland (9)
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Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.45
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
1.02

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Digital Lumens 30 Oct 2014 Information Technology, Internet of Things, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Lighting, Energy Management Late Stage Venture 23M United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Neural Concept 03 Jun 2024 Software, Machine Learning, Computer, Industrial Automation Early Stage Venture 27M Switzerland, Vaud, Lausanne

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