First Solar
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34M
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0.13
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- Areas of investment
Summary
First Solar appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1999. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Tempe. The company was established in North America in United States.
The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The important activity for fund was in 2008. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The current fund was established by Michael Ahearn.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the First Solar, startups are often financed by Peter Rive, Lyndon Rive, JP Morgan. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, DBL Investors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Generation Investment Management, DFJ, PG&E Corporation.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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 SolarCity We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Construction, Energy Efficiency.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 2
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.13
- Investments by industry
- Energy (2)
- Renewable Energy (2)
- Energy Storage (1)
- Power Grid (1)
- Environmental Consulting (1) Show 3 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (3)
- Peak activity year
- 2015
- Number of Unicorns
- 1
- Number of Decacorns
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 10
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 882M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.67
- Avg. company exit year
- 11
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.94
- Strategy success index
- 0.62
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