Daimler

Total investments

57

Average round size

67M

Portfolio companies

42

Rounds per year

0.40

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

9

Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsTransportationSoftwareMobileArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingElectronicsElectric VehicleMapping Services

Summary

Daimler is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1883. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Stuttgart.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline BAIC BJEV, Careem Networks, Flixbus We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Logistics. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler. We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Daimler works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The typical startup value when the investment from Daimler is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Daimler, startups are often financed by Valor Equity Partners, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Siemens, Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sony Innovation Fund, btov Partners, Valor Equity Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
57
Lead investments
18
Exits
9
Rounds per year
0.40
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Automotive (19)
  • Transportation (13)
  • Mobile (12)
  • Manufacturing (12)
  • Software (8)
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Investments by region
  • United States (24)
  • China (3)
  • Germany (15)
  • United Kingdom (6)
  • Estonia (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
9
Number of Decacorns
9
Number of Minotaurs
8

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
20
Avg. valuation at time of investment
761M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
18
Avg. multiplicator
0.13
Strategy success index
0.90

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