National Grid Partners

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Silicon Valley, United States

Total investments

66

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

37

Rounds per year

11.00

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

2

Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSCyber SecuritySecurityEnergyRenewable EnergySolar

Summary

National Grid Partners (NGP) is the famous VC, which was founded in 2018. The company was established in North America in United States. National Grid Partners (NGP) seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Solar, Machine Learning. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Dragos, ClimaCell, Autogrid.

The typical startup value when the investment from National Grid Partners (NGP) is 50-100 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the National Grid Partners (NGP), startups are often financed by Energy Impact Partners, Foundation Capital, E.ON. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Congruent Ventures, Canaan Partners, Wing Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Congruent Ventures, Union Square Ventures, SoftBank.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Energy
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
66
Lead investments
19
Exits
2
Rounds per year
11.00
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (19)
  • Software (18)
  • Energy (16)
  • Analytics (15)
  • SaaS (13)
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Investments by region
  • United States (53)
  • United Kingdom (7)
  • Israel (5)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
106M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
3.03
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Exodigo 20 Oct 2022 Software, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Technology Seed Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Luminance 02 Apr 2024 Software, Retail, Retail Technology, Computer Early Stage Venture 43M England, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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