Climate-KIC Acceleration Programme

Total investments

42

Average round size

317K

Portfolio companies

32

Rounds per year

3.50

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.21

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyTransportationSoftwareArtificial IntelligenceCleanTechInternet of ThingsRenewable EnergySustainabilityChemicalOil and Gas

Summary

In 2012 was created Climate-KIC Acceleration Programme, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Berlin.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Climate-KIC Acceleration Programme, startups are often financed by Venture Kick, Innovate UK, Startup Funding Club. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TIM, Seedrs, Innovation Fund Denmark. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Techstars, InnoEnergy.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ET Index, Cubbit, Woodoo. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, SaaS. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Italy.

The real fund results show that this VC is 41 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
42
Lead investments
11
Rounds per year
3.50
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Sustainability (8)
  • Chemical (7)
  • CleanTech (7)
  • Renewable Energy (6)
  • Software (6)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (10)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Italy (3)
  • Germany (5)
  • The Netherlands (3)
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Peak activity year
2019

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
642K
Group Appearance index
0.31

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
UniSieve 04 Nov 2020 CleanTech, Renewable Energy, Chemical, Oil and Gas Seed 4M Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich
Woodoo 01 Jan 2016 Automotive, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Wood Processing, Forestry Seed 0 Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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