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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$22M
Portfolio companies 6
Rounds per year 0.21
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.14
Exits 2
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Clean Energy
  • CleanTech
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enbala

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$5M01 Aug 2017 Denver, Colorado, United States

Enbala

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$12M24 Feb 2017 Denver, Colorado, United States

Autogrid

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Energy Storage
Internet of Things
Renewable Energy
$20M24 May 2016 Redwood City, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 22M
Rounds per year 0.21
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.14
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.57

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Enbala

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$5M01 Aug 2017 Denver, Colorado, United States

Enbala

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$12M24 Feb 2017 Denver, Colorado, United States

Autogrid

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Energy Storage
Internet of Things
Renewable Energy
$20M24 May 2016 Redwood City, California, United States
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