Norwegian Research Council

Total investments

22

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.71

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Grant
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareMedical DeviceMedicalProduct DesignPharmaceuticalClinical TrialsSporting Goods

Summary

Norwegian Research Council is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1993. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Oslo. The company was established in Europe in Norway.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Norway. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vaccibody. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Norwegian Research Council, startups are often financed by Birk Venture. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lockheed Martin, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
6
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.71
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (10)
  • Medical Device (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Biotechnology (6)
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Investments by region
  • Norway (21)
  • Sweden (1)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.23
Avg. company exit year
114
Avg. multiplicator
0.08

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Vaccibody 21 Jun 2013 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Clinical Trials Seed 864K Oslo, Norway

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