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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$40M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 0.27
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 7
Key employees 66

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Biotechnology
  • Clean Energy
  • Solar
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

StoreDot

Advanced Materials
Battery
Hardware
$20M22 May 2018 Tel Aviv District

FreeWire Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy Management
Renewable Energy
$5M11 Jan 2018 California, United States

Liquid Light

Chemical
Energy
Fuel
$5M27 Dec 2011 New Jersey, United States

GMZ Energy

CleanTech
Energy
Energy Management
$14M21 Dec 2011 Massachusetts, United States

REAC Fuel

Biofuel
CleanTech
Fuel
$4M05 Nov 2010 Sweden, Skåne County, Sweden

Breathing Buildings

Building Material
Construction
Education
Electrical Equipment
Energy
Machinery (B2B)
Mechanical Engineering
Other Consumer Products and Services
Smart Building
$1M09 Jul 2009 England

Net Power Technology

Battery
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Energy
Energy Management
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$3M18 Dec 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

BrightSource Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$115M27 Jun 2008 Oakland, California, United States

Asera

B2B
Business Intelligence
Internet
$115M28 Aug 2000 Redwood City, California, United States

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Total investments 31
Average round size 40M
Rounds per year 0.27
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.61

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

StoreDot

Advanced Materials
Battery
Hardware
$20M22 May 2018 Tel Aviv District

FreeWire Technologies

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Electric Vehicle
Energy Management
Renewable Energy
$5M11 Jan 2018 California, United States

Liquid Light

Chemical
Energy
Fuel
$5M27 Dec 2011 New Jersey, United States

GMZ Energy

CleanTech
Energy
Energy Management
$14M21 Dec 2011 Massachusetts, United States

REAC Fuel

Biofuel
CleanTech
Fuel
$4M05 Nov 2010 Sweden, Skåne County, Sweden

Breathing Buildings

Building Material
Construction
Education
Electrical Equipment
Energy
Machinery (B2B)
Mechanical Engineering
Other Consumer Products and Services
Smart Building
$1M09 Jul 2009 England

Net Power Technology

Battery
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Energy
Energy Management
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$3M18 Dec 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

BrightSource Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$115M27 Jun 2008 Oakland, California, United States

Asera

B2B
Business Intelligence
Internet
$115M28 Aug 2000 Redwood City, California, United States
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