BP

Total investments

30

Average round size

40M

Portfolio companies

27

Rounds per year

0.26

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.10

Exits

7

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetB2BCleanTechEnergyRenewable EnergySolarClean EnergyFuelEnergy Management

Summary

In 1909 was created BP, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy Management, Energy. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BrightSource Energy, ChemConnect, Verdezyne.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this BP performs on 1 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. When the investment is from BP the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Besides them, we counted 65 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the BP, startups are often financed by OVP Venture Partners, Monitor Ventures, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VantagePoint Capital Partners, OVP Venture Partners, Monitor Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Volvo Cars Group, VantagePoint Capital Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
8
Exits
7
Rounds per year
0.26
Follow on index
0.10
Investments by industry
  • Renewable Energy (11)
  • Energy (11)
  • Biotechnology (5)
  • Clean Energy (5)
  • CleanTech (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (20)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Israel (1)
  • Sweden (1)
  • Bahrain (1)
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Peak activity year
2000
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
306M
Group Appearance index
0.63
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
1.10
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BrightSource Energy 27 Jun 2008 Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Late Stage Venture 115M United States, California, Oakland
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