Breakthrough Energy Ventures
CVC
Active
Kirkland, United States
175
43M
104
19.44
26
0.41
2
- Areas of investment
Summary
Breakthrough Energy Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.
The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 53 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Chemical, Energy. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight QuantumScape, Pivot Bio, Commonwealth Fusion. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Breakthrough Energy Ventures, startups are often financed by Pangaea Ventures, Volkswagen Group, Sand Hill Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Engine, Sofinnova Partners, Prelude Ventures, LLC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by OGCI Climate Investments.
The fund was created by Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, John Doerr, Vinod Khosla. The overall number of key employees were 5.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 2000000000
- Fund raised date
- 2024-04-25
Analytics
- Total investments
- 175
- Lead investments
- 26
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 19.44
- Follow on index
- 0.41
- Investments by industry
- Energy (48)
- Renewable Energy (43)
- CleanTech (26)
- Manufacturing (23)
- Sustainability (16) Show 96 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (137)
- Sweden (4)
- Canada (10)
- United Kingdom (5)
- Israel (1) Show 7 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 2
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 138M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.90
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.90
- Strategy success index
- 0.90
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planted Solar | 18 Jun 2024 | Energy, Industrial, Solar, Clean Energy | Early Stage Venture | 20M | |
| Windfall Bio | 08 Apr 2024 | AgTech, Agriculture | Early Stage Venture | 28M | United States, Menlo Park, California |
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