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Total investments 17
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$33M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 0.63
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 1
Key employees 19

Areas of investment

  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data
  • Software
Summary

Centrica is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1997. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Windsor.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Centrica, startups are often financed by Shlomo Kramer, Munich Venture Partners, Magma Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are InnoEnergy, Earthworm, Crowdcube. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sumitomo Corporation, Shell Ventures, InnoEnergy.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

We also calculated 19 valuable employees in our database.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Driivz, Indegy, Verv For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Automotive, Cyber Security.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Omnidian

Energy
Internet of Things
Residential
Solar
$33M21 Sep 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

LO3 Energy

Consulting
Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
$11M11 Mar 2021 New York, United States

Driivz

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Information Technology
Software
$11M19 Feb 2020 North District

Verv

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Smart Home
$9M10 Apr 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

GreenCom Networks AG

Application Software
Business/Productivity Software
Energy
Internet of Things
Other Energy Services
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
19 Feb 2019 Bavaria

EchoCare

Big Data
Cloud Management
Home Health Care
Hospital
Machine Learning
17 Jan 2019 Israel, North District, Israel

Indegy

Cyber Security
Industrial
Infrastructure
$18M28 Aug 2018 New York, United States

Driivz

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Information Technology
Software
$12M06 Aug 2018 Israel, North District, Israel

Verv

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Smart Home
$1M15 Aug 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 17
Average round size 33M
Rounds per year 0.63
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Omnidian

Energy
Internet of Things
Residential
Solar
$33M21 Sep 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

LO3 Energy

Consulting
Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
$11M11 Mar 2021 New York, United States

Driivz

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Information Technology
Software
$11M19 Feb 2020 North District

Verv

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Smart Home
$9M10 Apr 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

GreenCom Networks AG

Application Software
Business/Productivity Software
Energy
Internet of Things
Other Energy Services
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
19 Feb 2019 Bavaria

EchoCare

Big Data
Cloud Management
Home Health Care
Hospital
Machine Learning
17 Jan 2019 Israel, North District, Israel

Indegy

Cyber Security
Industrial
Infrastructure
$18M28 Aug 2018 New York, United States

Driivz

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Information Technology
Software
$12M06 Aug 2018 Israel, North District, Israel

Verv

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
Smart Home
$1M15 Aug 2015 London, England, United Kingdom
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