Bekaert

Summary

Bekaert appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1980. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Zwevegem. The company was established in Europe in Belgium.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Bekaert, startups are often financed by The Dow Chemical Company, NYSERDA, Millennium II Materials Technology Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Applied Ventures, The Dow Chemical Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Texas Instruments, Perseus, Intel Capital.

The important activity for fund was in 2004. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Comparing to the other companies, this Bekaert performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy Storage, Marketplace. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Cymbet, SAGE Electrochromics For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.