Natural Gas Partners

Total investments

20

Average round size

120M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

0.57

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyMarketplaceEnergyRenewable EnergyNatural ResourcesOil and GasMining TechnologyBiofuelEnvironmental EngineeringMineral

Summary

Natural Gas Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1988. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Irving.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Utility Associates, groSolar, Black Diamond Minerals. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Oil and Gas, Fuel. 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. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Natural Gas Partners, startups are often financed by SJF Ventures, NGP Energy Technology Partners, Calvert Social Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Warburg Pincus, Trident Capital, TL Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Umpqua Bank, Trinity Capital Investment, Trident Capital.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2008. Comparing to the other companies, this Natural Gas Partners performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
20
Lead investments
4
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.57
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Energy (14)
  • Oil and Gas (11)
  • Renewable Energy (4)
  • Natural Resources (4)
  • Environmental Engineering (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
Peak activity year
2013

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Group Appearance index
0.45
Avg. company exit year
14
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
DynaPump 18 Jun 2008 Manufacturing, Energy, Oil and Gas Late Stage Venture 6M United States, Texas, Houston

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