Total investments

31

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

1.29

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

7

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSHardwareInternet of ThingsEnergyRenewable EnergyEnergy Efficiency

Summary

In 2000 was created E.ON, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Du00fcsseldorf. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the E.ON, startups are often financed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Voyager Capital, Target Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Total Ventures, Foundation Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Vinnova, Total Ventures.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Hardware, Energy. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Bloom Energy, Bidgely, SpaceTime Insight. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 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.

The overall number of key employees were 25.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from E.ON is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this E.ON works on 11 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
31
Lead investments
5
Exits
7
Rounds per year
1.29
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • Renewable Energy (13)
  • Energy (11)
  • Analytics (8)
  • Software (7)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (17)
  • Belgium (2)
  • Germany (9)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Sweden (1)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
147M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
0.20
Strategy success index
0.10

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