Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

Type

Venture Capital, Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

267

Average round size

681K

Portfolio companies

190

Rounds per year

16.69

Lead investments

99

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

21

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareEducationManufacturingCleanTechEnergyRenewable EnergySolarEnergy EfficiencyUniversitiesClean Energy

Summary

Massachusetts Clean Energy Center appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2008. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Boston.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, startups are often financed by Vocap Ventures, US Department of Energy, MassChallenge. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vocap Ventures, Tamarisc Ventures, Constellation Energy. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, LaunchPad Venture Group, Vocap Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Big Data, Solar. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SiEnergy Systems, DropWise Technologies, Energetic Insurance, Inc.. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Massachusetts Clean Energy Center performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate tech
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, Massachusetts

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
267
Lead investments
99
Exits
21
Rounds per year
16.69
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Energy (66)
  • Renewable Energy (52)
  • Manufacturing (37)
  • Clean Energy (36)
  • Solar (32)
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Investments by region
  • United States (258)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Italy (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
17M
Group Appearance index
0.32
Avg. company exit year
15
Avg. multiplicator
0.09
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
7AC Technologies 06 Mar 2012 Electronics, Energy, Energy Efficiency Early Stage Venture 2M United States, Massachusetts, Beverly
AeroShield 01 Nov 2022 Consumer Seed 4M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

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