Energy Foundry

Total investments

32

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

23

Rounds per year

3.20

Lead investments

12

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsHardwareElectronicsInternet of ThingsEnergyRenewable EnergySolarEnergy EfficiencyClean Energy

Summary

Energy Foundry appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Chicago. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Jason Blumberg, Sara Chamberlain. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Intellihot Green Technologies, Tank Utility, NanoGraf Corporation The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Electronics, Internet of Things.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Energy Foundry, startups are often financed by Illinois Ventures, Bolt - Overview, gener8tor. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Congruent Ventures, City Light Capital, Generac Power Systems. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by National Grid Partners (NGP), Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Serra Ventures.

The top activity for fund was in 2014. Opposing the other organizations, this Energy Foundry works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
12
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.20
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Energy (15)
  • Internet of Things (11)
  • Software (11)
  • Analytics (7)
  • Solar (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (28)
  • Canada (4)
Peak activity year
2016

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
665K
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
9

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