National Grid
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22M
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- Areas of investment
Summary
National Grid is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1990. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the National Grid, startups are often financed by Chrysalix Venture Capital, Voyager Capital, Obvious Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Obvious Ventures, GE Ventures, Chrysalix Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by u00d8rsted, innogy New Ventures LLC, Zoma Capital.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.
The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 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 Autogrid, CleanFiber, ENBALA Power Networks. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Social Entrepreneurship, SaaS.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 7
- Lead investments
- 1
- Exits
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 0.21
- Follow on index
- 0.14
- Investments by industry
- Renewable Energy (3)
- Energy (3)
- Energy Storage (3)
- Clean Energy (2)
- CleanTech (2) Show 23 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (7)
- Peak activity year
- 2017
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 20
- Group Appearance index
- 0.57
- Avg. company exit year
- 38
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autogrid | 24 May 2016 | Energy Storage, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Energy, Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicle | Late Stage Venture | 20M | United States, California, Redwood City |
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