Evergy Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Kansas City, United States

Total investments

30

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

3.33

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Energy StorageReal EstateSoftwareSaaSInternet of ThingsEnergyRenewable EnergySolarEnergy EfficiencyEnergy Management

Summary

In 2015 was created Evergy Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Kansas City. The venture was found in North America in United States. Evergy Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Evergy Ventures, startups are often financed by Element 8, Total Ventures, Team8. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Shell Ventures, Equinor Energy Ventures, Energy Impact Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank, Linse Capital, Engie.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This Evergy Ventures works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Sunverge Energy, ClimaCell, Claroty Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy Management, Energy Storage. The fund has exact preference in some 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.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techMobilityEnergyProptech/Real Estate
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
5
Exits
3
Rounds per year
3.33
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Energy (16)
  • Renewable Energy (10)
  • Energy Efficiency (9)
  • Software (7)
  • SaaS (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (26)
  • Canada (3)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
60M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
9
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ConnectDER 24 May 2023 Solar, Electrical Distribution, Power Grid Late Stage Venture 27M United States, Virginia, Arlington
Internet Marketing Inc 01 Jan 2008 Seed United States, California, San Diego
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WattBuy 18 Nov 2020 Marketplace, CleanTech, Energy, iOS, Energy Management Early Stage Venture 3M United States, Washington, Seattle
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