Centrica

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Windsor, United Kingdom

Total investments

17

Average round size

33M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.63

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

1

Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyMachine LearningBig DataInternet of ThingsEnergyRenewable EnergyElectric VehicleEnvironmental Consulting

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Energy
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.63
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Renewable Energy (5)
  • Energy (4)
  • Machine Learning (4)
  • Big Data (4)
  • Software (3)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • United States (6)
  • Israel (4)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
24M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Indegy 28 Aug 2018 Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Industrial Early Stage Venture 18M United States, New York, New York
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