European Investment Bank

Type

Bank

Status

Active

Location

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Total investments

335

Average round size

163M

Portfolio companies

290

Rounds per year

5.08

Lead investments

148

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

84

Stages of investment
GrantDebt
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingMedicalPharmaceuticalElectronicsEnergy

Summary

European Investment Bank (EIB) is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1958. The venture was found in Europe in Luxembourg. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Luxembourg.

The typical startup value when the investment from European Investment Bank (EIB) is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. This European Investment Bank (EIB) works on 8 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 52 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Finland. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Financial Services. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline IZettle, Better Place, Gigaclear

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the European Investment Bank (EIB), startups are often financed by Bayern Kapital GmbH, Tesi, 360 Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AXA Group, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, Positive Planet. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by AXA Group, Tesi, Funds managed by Maj Invest.

Besides them, we counted 6 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
335
Lead investments
148
Exits
84
Rounds per year
5.08
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (64)
  • Energy (46)
  • Health Care (43)
  • Medical (33)
  • Manufacturing (30)
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Investments by region
  • France (54)
  • Sweden (19)
  • Germany (40)
  • Spain (20)
  • Italy (17)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
13
Number of Minotaurs
18

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
26
Avg. valuation at time of investment
189M
Group Appearance index
0.21
Avg. company exit year
38
Avg. multiplicator
0.36
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Canatu 18 Jul 2016 Automotive, Manufacturing, Autonomous Vehicles, Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Electric Vehicle, Nanotechnology, Sensor, Organic Late Stage Venture 7M Uusimaa, Helsinki, Finland
Kayrros 22 Mar 2022 Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Real Time, Intelligent Systems, Energy, Image Recognition, Predictive Analytics, Oil and Gas, Semantic Search, Geospatial, GPS Late Stage Venture 47M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
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