BP Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

98

Average round size

20M

Portfolio companies

65

Rounds per year

8.17

Lead investments

16

Follow on index

0.33

Exits

13

Areas of investment
AutomotiveBiotechnologyTransportationSoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingEnergyRenewable EnergyOil and GasElectric Vehicle

Summary

BP Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. BP Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the BP Ventures, startups are often financed by Walden Riverwood Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, MissionPoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VantagePoint Capital Partners, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Parkwalk Advisors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ConocoPhillips, Wood Creek Capital Management, Vulcan Capital.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Clean Energy, Industrial. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BrightSource Energy, Victor, Modumetal. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This BP Ventures works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EnergyClimate techBlockchain/Crypto/Web3AI/Big DataCloud/Infrastructure Show 1 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries BSeries CSeries D

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
98
Lead investments
16
Exits
13
Rounds per year
8.17
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Energy (23)
  • Renewable Energy (21)
  • Software (18)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Manufacturing (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (51)
  • United Kingdom (23)
  • Canada (5)
  • India (6)
  • Finland (1)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
13M
Group Appearance index
0.70
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
0.55
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Grid Edge 07 Dec 2021 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting Early Stage Venture 2M England, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Oxbotica 10 Jan 2023 Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles Late Stage Venture 157M England, Oxford, United Kingdom
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