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Good Energies

Founders Marcel Brenninkmeijer

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$23M
Portfolio companies 23
Rounds per year 1.55
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Exits 9
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Renewable Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Wind Energy
Summary

In 2001 was created Good Energies, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York.

This organization was formed by Marcel Brenninkmeijer. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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 EverPower, Power Assure, Ice Energy. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Energy Efficiency, Solar. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Good Energies, startups are often financed by DFJ, Zero Stage Capital, Vista Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DFJ, VantagePoint Capital Partners, PJC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, 3i Group, VantagePoint Capital Partners.

The top activity for fund was in 2010. This Good Energies works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2012. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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Energy Efficiency
Mobile Payments
Renewable Energy
Solar
Water
Water Purification
$1M01 Oct 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Power Assure

Data Center
Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Software
$13M26 Sep 2011 San Jose, California, United States

Enecsys

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Manufacturing
Solar
$41M03 May 2011 England

Ice Energy

Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
$24M18 Oct 2010 Costa Mesa, California, United States

AlertMe

Energy
Internet
Internet of Things
$20M08 Oct 2010 England

Enviromena Power Systems

Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
$15M13 Jan 2010 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

AlertMe

Energy
Internet
Internet of Things
$13M11 Jun 2009 London, England, United Kingdom

Tendril

Energy
Energy Management
Software
$30M09 Jun 2009 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Microstaq

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Management
$12M22 Sep 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

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Total investments 34
Average round size 23M
Rounds per year 1.55
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.32
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

OffGridBox

Energy Efficiency
Mobile Payments
Renewable Energy
Solar
Water
Water Purification
$1M01 Oct 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Power Assure

Data Center
Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Software
$13M26 Sep 2011 San Jose, California, United States

Enecsys

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Manufacturing
Solar
$41M03 May 2011 England

Ice Energy

Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
$24M18 Oct 2010 Costa Mesa, California, United States

AlertMe

Energy
Internet
Internet of Things
$20M08 Oct 2010 England

Enviromena Power Systems

Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
$15M13 Jan 2010 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

AlertMe

Energy
Internet
Internet of Things
$13M11 Jun 2009 London, England, United Kingdom

Tendril

Energy
Energy Management
Software
$30M09 Jun 2009 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Microstaq

Electrical Distribution
Energy
Energy Management
$12M22 Sep 2008 Austin, Texas, United States
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