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Craton Equity Partners

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Total investments 22
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 1.38
Lead investments 9
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 6
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Software
  • Fuel
Summary

Craton Equity Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Beverly Hills.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The important activity for fund was in 2011. The real fund results show that this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Craton Equity Partners works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sungevity, GridPoint, Liquid Environmental Solutions For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Renewable Energy.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Craton Equity Partners, startups are often financed by VantagePoint Capital Partners, RockPort Capital, DCM Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RockPort Capital, Nth Power, Vision Ridge Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by California Energy Commission, The Westly Group, Sand Hill Angels.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flywheel

Automotive
Mobile
Public Transportation
Software
Transportation
$12M20 Nov 2014 Redwood City, California, United States

Greenwave Systems

Computer
Smart Home
Software
Telecommunications
$19M10 Oct 2013 Irvine, California, United States

Flywheel

Automotive
Mobile
Public Transportation
Software
Transportation
$14M31 Jul 2013 Redwood City, California, United States

Propel Fuels

Clean Energy
Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$400K01 Apr 2012 Sacramento, California, United States

Greenwave Systems

Computer
Smart Home
Software
Telecommunications
$11M17 Jun 2010 Irvine, California, United States

Propel Fuels

Clean Energy
Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$12M10 Feb 2010 Sacramento, California, United States

Petra Systems

Energy
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
Solar
$40M08 Feb 2010 New Jersey, United States

Rypos

Manufacturing
Product Design
$8M30 Oct 2009 Massachusetts, United States

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Total investments 22
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 1.38
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 9
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Flywheel

Automotive
Mobile
Public Transportation
Software
Transportation
$12M20 Nov 2014 Redwood City, California, United States

Greenwave Systems

Computer
Smart Home
Software
Telecommunications
$19M10 Oct 2013 Irvine, California, United States

Flywheel

Automotive
Mobile
Public Transportation
Software
Transportation
$14M31 Jul 2013 Redwood City, California, United States

Propel Fuels

Clean Energy
Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$400K01 Apr 2012 Sacramento, California, United States

Greenwave Systems

Computer
Smart Home
Software
Telecommunications
$11M17 Jun 2010 Irvine, California, United States

Propel Fuels

Clean Energy
Energy
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$12M10 Feb 2010 Sacramento, California, United States

Petra Systems

Energy
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
Solar
$40M08 Feb 2010 New Jersey, United States

Rypos

Manufacturing
Product Design
$8M30 Oct 2009 Massachusetts, United States
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