European Union

Type

Government organization

Status

Active

Location

Brussels, Belgium

Total investments

129

Average round size

11M

Portfolio companies

120

Rounds per year

4.16

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.06

Exits

10

Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalElectronicsEnergy

Summary

European Union is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1951. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The high activity for fund was in 2017. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this European Union performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the European Union, startups are often financed by Venture Kick, SOSV, Enterprise Ireland. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Venture Kick, bmp Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Atlantic Labs, Omidyar Network, Horizon 2020.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Machine Learning. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quaero.org, Nuritas, SensArs. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Finland.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
129
Lead investments
11
Exits
10
Rounds per year
4.16
Follow on index
0.06
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (25)
  • Artificial Intelligence (17)
  • Medical Device (16)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Biotechnology (14)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (16)
  • United States (11)
  • France (6)
  • Norway (1)
  • South Korea (1)
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Peak activity year
2023
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.26
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
0.00
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
forward earth 18 Jun 2024 Seed 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Nanom 02 Apr 2021 Energy Seed 3M United States, California, Palo Alto
Imbria Pharmaceuticals 01 Jul 2018 Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science, Pharmaceutical Seed United States, Massachusetts, Boston
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