Elemental Excelerator

Total investments

133

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

114

Rounds per year

13.30

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

15

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyManufacturingCleanTechEnergyRenewable EnergySolarEnergy EfficiencyClean Energy

Summary

In 2012 was created Elemental Excelerator, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Honolulu.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy Efficiency, Solar. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stem, Bidgely, Carbon Lighthouse. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Elemental Excelerator performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The average startup value when the investment from Elemental Excelerator is 10-50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

The current fund was established by Dawn Lippert, Jill Sims.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Elemental Excelerator, startups are often financed by StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Apsara Capital, Alumni Ventures Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Total Ventures, Plug and Play, Constellation Technology Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Westly Group, Romulus Capital, innogy Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
133
Lead investments
2
Exits
15
Rounds per year
13.30
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Energy (42)
  • Renewable Energy (42)
  • Software (38)
  • Solar (18)
  • Analytics (16)
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Investments by region
  • United States (109)
  • Israel (1)
  • Australia (5)
  • Spain (3)
  • Netherlands (2)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.19
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
0.14
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
01 Oct 2015 Health Diagnostics, Construction Seed 0 United States, Berkeley
Fervo Energy 22 Aug 2022 Energy, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Environmental Engineering Late Stage Venture 138M United States, California, Berkeley

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