EDF Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

48

Average round size

78M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

1.30

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalTelecommunications

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Ann Arbor. The company was established in North America in United States.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this EDF Ventures works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2007. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. When the investment is from EDF Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Manufacturing, Messaging. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Direct Flow Medical, Alfalight, Sonoma Orthopedics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the EDF Ventures, startups are often financed by The Vertical Group, Maryland Venture Fund, VantagePoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VantagePoint Capital Partners, The Vertical Group, The New Markets Growth Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by VantagePoint Capital Partners, The Vertical Group, The New Markets Growth Fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate tech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 38 more
Check size
3M — 5M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
48
Lead investments
3
Exits
15
Rounds per year
1.30
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (21)
  • Biotechnology (16)
  • Medical Device (14)
  • Information Technology (8)
  • Medical (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (43)
  • France (4)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Avg. valuation at time of investment
138M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
12
Avg. multiplicator
0.35
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ValenTx 08 Sep 2009 Health Care, Medical Device Early Stage Venture 22M United States, Minnesota
Xtera 29 Jan 2001 Data Center, Telecommunications, Optical Communication Early Stage Venture 110M United States, Texas

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