Energize Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

47

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

25

Rounds per year

5.88

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.47

Exits

1

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMessagingSaaSCollaborationEnterprise SoftwareRenewable EnergyElectric VehicleUnified Communications

Summary

Energize Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Robotics, Machine Learning. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SparkCognition, DroneDeploy, Volta Charging. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Energize Ventures, startups are often financed by AngelPad, Uncork Capital, Planven Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lux Capital, Uncork Capital, THI Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Uncork Capital, Temasek Holdings, THI Investments.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 69 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from Energize Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techCloud/InfrastructureAI/Big DataAnalyticsCybersecurity Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeries C
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
10M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 330000000
Fund raised date
2021-11-29

Analytics

Total investments
47
Lead investments
9
Exits
1
Rounds per year
5.88
Follow on index
0.47
Investments by industry
  • Software (27)
  • SaaS (16)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Enterprise Software (7)
  • Artificial Intelligence (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (37)
  • Switzerland (6)
  • Denmark (2)
  • Lithuania (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
154M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.50

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