BMW i Ventures

Summary

BMW i Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Mountain View. The venture was found in North America in United States. BMW i Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Internet. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Carbon3D, Graphcore, Desktop Metal.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the BMW i Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Toyota AI Ventures, Y Combinator, Highland Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Index Ventures, GE Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from BMW i Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Comparing to the other companies, this BMW i Ventures performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.