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CEA Investissement

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 32
Rounds per year 1.52
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.16
Exits 6
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Semiconductor
  • Biotechnology
  • Hardware
Summary

CEA Investissement is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. CEA Investissement appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the Paris.

This CEA Investissement works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 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 - France. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Semiconductor. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Prophesee, Aledia, EnobraQ The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the CEA Investissement, startups are often financed by Ventech, Idinvest Partners, Auriga Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Emertec Gestion, Sofinnova Partners, Idinvest Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Supernova Invest, Idinvest Partners, Bpifrance.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blue Capsule Technology

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Nuclear
$2M04 Jul 2024 Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Quobly

Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Semiconductor
$22M12 Jul 2023 -

WORMSENSING

$4M17 Oct 2022 Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France

Microoled

Consumer Electronics
Industrial Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$9M10 Sep 2020 France, Grenoble

ISORG

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Industrial
$28M26 Sep 2018 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

EnobraQ

Biotechnology
Chemical
$3M10 Apr 2018 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

LXRepair

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$17K10 Oct 2017 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

UroMems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$14M15 Nov 2016 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Diota

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$3M19 Sep 2016 France, Ile-de-France

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Total investments 38
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 1.52
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.16
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Blue Capsule Technology

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Nuclear
$2M04 Jul 2024 Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Quobly

Information Technology
Quantum Computing
Semiconductor
$22M12 Jul 2023 -

WORMSENSING

$4M17 Oct 2022 Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France

Microoled

Consumer Electronics
Industrial Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$9M10 Sep 2020 France, Grenoble

ISORG

Consumer Electronics
Electronics
Industrial
$28M26 Sep 2018 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

EnobraQ

Biotechnology
Chemical
$3M10 Apr 2018 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

LXRepair

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Life Science
Medical
Therapeutics
$17K10 Oct 2017 France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

UroMems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$14M15 Nov 2016 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Diota

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
$3M19 Sep 2016 France, Ile-de-France
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