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EDF

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$39M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.15
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Renewable Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Sustainability
Summary

In 1946 was created EDF, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in Europe in France. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Paris.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this EDF performs on 12 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Smart Home, Electric Vehicle. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SunCulture, Zenpark, ubitricity For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Kenya. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the EDF, startups are often financed by Pole Capital, Energy Access Ventures, Demeter Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vulcan Capital, Total Ventures, RATP Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TURN8, Symbiotics Group, SunFunder.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Persefoni

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
CleanTech
Enterprise Software
GreenTech
SaaS
Social Impact
Sustainability
$101M28 Oct 2021 Tempe, Arizona, United States

SunCulture

Agriculture
Farming
Solar
$14M08 Dec 2020 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Teeptrak

Software
$3M01 Jun 2020 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

ubitricity

Clean Energy
Electric Vehicle
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$23M05 Mar 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Zenpark

Information Technology
Location Based Services
Parking
Sustainability
$11M30 Jan 2019 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Total investments 12
Average round size 39M
Rounds per year 0.15
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Persefoni

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
CleanTech
Enterprise Software
GreenTech
SaaS
Social Impact
Sustainability
$101M28 Oct 2021 Tempe, Arizona, United States

SunCulture

Agriculture
Farming
Solar
$14M08 Dec 2020 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Teeptrak

Software
$3M01 Jun 2020 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

ubitricity

Clean Energy
Electric Vehicle
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy
$23M05 Mar 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Zenpark

Information Technology
Location Based Services
Parking
Sustainability
$11M30 Jan 2019 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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