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Energy Foundry

Founders Jason Blumberg Sara Chamberlain

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 3.20
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 3
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Internet of Things
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • Solar
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

3E Nano

GreenTech
Renewable Energy
Solar
$4M28 Mar 2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Recurve

Construction
Energy Efficiency
Software
$18M30 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$13M02 May 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

e-Zinc

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Hardware
$25M07 Apr 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Omnidian

Energy
Internet of Things
Residential
Solar
$33M21 Sep 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Battery
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$1M08 Apr 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$2M16 Dec 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Span.IO

Energy
Hardware
Internet of Things
Renewable Energy
Software
$10M12 May 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

e-Zinc

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Hardware
$2M09 Jan 2020 Ontario

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Total investments 32
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 3.20
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

3E Nano

GreenTech
Renewable Energy
Solar
$4M28 Mar 2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Recurve

Construction
Energy Efficiency
Software
$18M30 Aug 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$13M02 May 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States

e-Zinc

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Hardware
$25M07 Apr 2022 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Omnidian

Energy
Internet of Things
Residential
Solar
$33M21 Sep 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States

Battery
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing
$1M08 Apr 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$2M16 Dec 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Span.IO

Energy
Hardware
Internet of Things
Renewable Energy
Software
$10M12 May 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

e-Zinc

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Hardware
$2M09 Jan 2020 Ontario
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