GE Ventures

Summary

In 2013 was created GE Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. GE Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. 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 most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Carbon3D, Desktop Metal, Human Longevity. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy, Enterprise Software.

The overall number of key employees were 17.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. This GE Ventures works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The average startup value when the investment from GE Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the GE Ventures, startups are often financed by GV, DFJ, Frost Data Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, Frost Data Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins.