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Carbon Trust

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.05
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 5
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Chemical
  • Software
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ozo Innovations

Clean Energy
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$822K30 Jan 2019 England

Concurrent Thinking

Data Center
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M08 Apr 2014 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Helveta

Biofuel
Computer
Software
Supply Chain Management
$1M14 Jun 2013 United Kingdom, England

Eight19

Energy
Manufacturing
Solar
$6M21 Aug 2012 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

ACAL Energy

Automotive
Chemical
Energy
Fuel Cell
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$1M08 May 2011 United Kingdom, England

Eight19

Energy
Manufacturing
Solar
$6M18 Sep 2010 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Green Biologics

Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$6M30 Jul 2010 United Kingdom, England

Concurrent Thinking

Data Center
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M17 Jun 2010 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Intamac Systems

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Service Industry
$5M16 Jun 2010 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 22
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.05
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ozo Innovations

Clean Energy
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$822K30 Jan 2019 England

Concurrent Thinking

Data Center
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M08 Apr 2014 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Helveta

Biofuel
Computer
Software
Supply Chain Management
$1M14 Jun 2013 United Kingdom, England

Eight19

Energy
Manufacturing
Solar
$6M21 Aug 2012 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

ACAL Energy

Automotive
Chemical
Energy
Fuel Cell
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$1M08 May 2011 United Kingdom, England

Eight19

Energy
Manufacturing
Solar
$6M18 Sep 2010 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Green Biologics

Biotechnology
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
$6M30 Jul 2010 United Kingdom, England

Concurrent Thinking

Data Center
Information Services
Information Technology
Software
$1M17 Jun 2010 United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom

Intamac Systems

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Service Industry
$5M16 Jun 2010 United Kingdom, England

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