Generation Investment Management
Private equity
Active
London, United Kingdom
78
129M
45
3.90
16
0.42
10
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Generation Investment Management is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.
The fund was created by Al Gore, Colin le Duc, David Blood, Mark Ferguson, Miguel Nogales, Peter Harris. The overall number of key employees were 8.
Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DocuSign, SolarCity, Asana Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Transportation. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.
The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Generation Investment Management the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Generation Investment Management performs on 14 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Generation Investment Management, startups are often financed by Benchmark, Balderton Capital, Virgin Green Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, DAG Ventures, True North Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DAG Ventures, True North Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 1700000000
- Fund raised date
- 2022-05-18
Analytics
- Total investments
- 78
- Lead investments
- 16
- Exits
- 10
- Rounds per year
- 3.90
- Follow on index
- 0.42
- Investments by industry
- Software (22)
- Renewable Energy (17)
- SaaS (17)
- Energy (15)
- Enterprise Software (12) Show 108 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (60)
- United Kingdom (4)
- France (3)
- Taiwan (2)
- Canada (4) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
- Number of Unicorns
- 16
- Number of Decacorns
- 16
- Number of Minotaurs
- 8
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 13
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1B
- Group Appearance index
- 0.90
- Avg. company exit year
- 14
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.35
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest Power | 16 Mar 2011 | Energy, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy | Early Stage Venture | 51M | United States, Massachusetts |
| iTrustCapital Inc. | 03 Aug 2018 | Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform | Seed | 1M | United States, California, Los Angeles |
| Toast | 25 Jul 2017 | Software, Mobile, SaaS, Restaurants, Point of Sale | Late Stage Venture | 101M | United States, Massachusetts, Boston |
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