Bosch

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Gerlingen, Germany

Total investments

45

Average round size

56M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

0.33

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.20

Exits

8

Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileInformation ServicesArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingComputer VisionAutonomous VehiclesInternet of Things

Summary

In 1886 was created Bosch, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Stuttgart.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Bosch, startups are often financed by Relay Ventures, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, Venture Kick. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Siemens, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Wellington Partners, Innogy Venture Capital.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Bosch works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The average startup value when the investment from Bosch is more than 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 1 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Israel. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zimplistic, PubNub, AnyVision Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hardware, Manufacturing. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Analytics

Total investments
45
Lead investments
8
Exits
8
Rounds per year
0.33
Follow on index
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Software (13)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Internet of Things (10)
  • Automotive (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (8)
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Investments by region
  • China (7)
  • United States (11)
  • Israel (3)
  • Canada (1)
  • Germany (8)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
25
Avg. valuation at time of investment
638M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
79
Avg. multiplicator
0.03
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arris 09 Nov 2021 Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Late Stage Venture 88M United States, California, Berkeley
Lebesgue 28 May 2020 Software, Marketing, Consulting Seed 554K United States, California, San Francisco
The Yield 11 May 2020 Business/Productivity Software, Electronic Equipment and Instruments, Other Agriculture, Information Technology, Internet of Things, AgTech Early Stage Venture 8M New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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