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Masdar Capital

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Total investments 10
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$51M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 3
Key employees 11
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Renewable Energy
  • Advanced Materials
  • Environmental Consulting
  • Industrial
Summary

Masdar Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2006. The venture was found in Asia in United Arab Emirates. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Abu Dhabi.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Masdar Capital is 100-500 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Masdar Capital works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2009.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Masdar Capital, startups are often financed by RockPort Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, ICV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BASF Venture Capital, RockPort Capital, Evonik Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ICV, Evonik Venture Capital, Capricorn Venture Partners.

Besides them, we counted 11 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no 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 FRX Polymers, Reactive NanoTechnologies, eCullet. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Environmental Consulting, Water.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$8M07 May 2014 Massachusetts, United States

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$12M15 Jan 2014 Massachusetts, United States

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$11M30 Mar 2012 Massachusetts, United States

Enviromena Power Systems

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

NanoGram

Electronics
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$32M15 Jan 2008 United States, Milpitas

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Total investments 10
Average round size 51M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$8M07 May 2014 Massachusetts, United States

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$12M15 Jan 2014 Massachusetts, United States

FRX Polymers

Advanced Materials
Industrial
Manufacturing
Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing
$11M30 Mar 2012 Massachusetts, United States

Enviromena Power Systems

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

NanoGram

Electronics
Manufacturing
Nanotechnology
$32M15 Jan 2008 United States, Milpitas
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