Linse Capital

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Menlo Park, United States

Total investments

17

Average round size

112M

Portfolio companies

6

Rounds per year

2.43

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.59

Exits

1

Areas of investment
AutomotiveReal EstateSaaSManufacturingEnergyRenewable EnergySmart BuildingEnergy EfficiencyElectric VehicleSmart Cities

Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Software. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ChargePoint. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Linse Capital, startups are often financed by Braemar Energy Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Rho Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Braemar Energy Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Siemens. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Siemens, Braemar Energy Ventures, BMW i Ventures.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. When the investment is from Linse Capital the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Geo focus
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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
17
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
2.43
Follow on index
0.59
Investments by industry
  • Smart Building (6)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Automotive (5)
  • Electric Vehicle (5)
  • Smart Cities (5)
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Investments by region
  • United States (13)
  • Israel (2)
Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
14
Avg. multiplicator
1.63
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Whisper Aero 18 Apr 2023 Aerospace, GreenTech, Air Transportation Early Stage Venture 33M
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