Continental

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Hanover, Germany

Total investments

31

Average round size

32M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.20

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

1

Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingAugmented RealityVirtual RealityAutonomous VehiclesWearablesNanotechnology

Summary

Continental appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1871. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Hanover.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Continental, startups are often financed by Malek Meslemani, Sony Innovation Fund, Pierre Lamond. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sony Innovation Fund, Universal Display Corporation, Toyota AI Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Universal Display Corporation, The Westly Group, Sony Innovation Fund.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer Applications, Consumer Electronics. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Leia Inc., DigiLens, 3YOURMIND Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
4
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.20
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Automotive (14)
  • Software (7)
  • Manufacturing (6)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Information Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (10)
  • Israel (7)
  • United States (8)
  • France (1)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
121M
Group Appearance index
0.81

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Latest deals

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