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Firelake Capital Management

Founders Martin Lagod

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 2.05
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.51
Exits 10
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Solar
  • Nanotechnology
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Firelake Capital Management, startups are often financed by OPG Ventures, DFJ, VantagePoint Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trident Capital, DFJ, New Enterprise Associates.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2012. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Firelake Capital Management the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Firelake Capital Management performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

This organization was formed by Martin Lagod. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sungevity, Solyndra, HydroPoint Data Systems. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Chemical, Energy Storage. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BrightVolt

Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
$4M12 Nov 2013 Washington, United States

QBotix

CleanTech
Hardware
Solar
$5M11 Jul 2013 California, United States

Scifiniti

CleanTech
Energy
Semiconductor
$10M01 Jul 2013 San Jose, California, United States

QBotix

CleanTech
Hardware
Solar
$6M04 Sep 2012 California, United States

EOS Climate, Inc.

Developer Tools
Manufacturing
Mobile
$5M30 Mar 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

ZeaChem

Chemical
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$19M14 Feb 2012 Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Siva Power

Electronics
Energy
Government
Manufacturing
$23M01 Jul 2011 San Jose, California, United States

Sungevity

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$15M15 Dec 2010 Oakland, California, United States

Liquidia Technologies

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
Therapeutics
$5M13 Jul 2010 North Carolina, United States

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Total investments 45
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 2.05
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.51
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BrightVolt

Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
$4M12 Nov 2013 Washington, United States

QBotix

CleanTech
Hardware
Solar
$5M11 Jul 2013 California, United States

Scifiniti

CleanTech
Energy
Semiconductor
$10M01 Jul 2013 San Jose, California, United States

QBotix

CleanTech
Hardware
Solar
$6M04 Sep 2012 California, United States

EOS Climate, Inc.

Developer Tools
Manufacturing
Mobile
$5M30 Mar 2012 San Francisco, California, United States

ZeaChem

Chemical
Fuel
Renewable Energy
$19M14 Feb 2012 Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Siva Power

Electronics
Energy
Government
Manufacturing
$23M01 Jul 2011 San Jose, California, United States

Sungevity

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar
$15M15 Dec 2010 Oakland, California, United States

Liquidia Technologies

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology
Therapeutics
$5M13 Jul 2010 North Carolina, United States
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