Carbon Trust

Type

Other

Status

Active

Total investments

24

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

1.09

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

5

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingEnergyRenewable EnergyChemicalSolarEnergy EfficiencyChemical Engineering

Summary

Carbon Trust appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2001. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the London.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Carbon Trust, startups are often financed by Albion Capital Group, TTP Ventures, Scottish Equity Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Oxford Capital Partners, Scottish Equity Partners, Nesta Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Oxford Capital Partners, Morningside Group, Imperial Innovations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Green Biologics, Concurrent Thinking, Oxsensis. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Renewable Energy, Manufacturing. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The high activity for fund was in 2010. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. This Carbon Trust works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
24
Lead investments
9
Exits
5
Rounds per year
1.09
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Energy (9)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Chemical (6)
  • Software (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (22)
  • Uganda (1)
Peak activity year
2010

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
5M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
0.93

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
KAMIM Technologies LTD 10 Aug 2023 Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Solar Seed 10K
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