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NRG Energy

Founders Cal Hamilton

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Total investments 11
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 7
Rounds per year 0.31
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 2
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Energy Management
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
  • Energy
  • Information Technology
Summary

NRG Energy appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1989. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Princeton. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the NRG Energy, startups are often financed by Trailblazer Capital, SJF Ventures, Aster. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trailblazer Capital, SJF Ventures, Aster. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Aster, Trailblazer Capital, SJF Ventures.

The fund was created by Cal Hamilton.

This NRG Energy works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cloud Computing, Service Industry. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Aptera, Ingenu, EnTouch Controls

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$1M26 Feb 2019 Richardson, Texas, United States

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$987K05 Jun 2018 Richardson, Texas, United States

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$6M17 Aug 2015 Richardson, Texas, United States

Eos Energy Storage

CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Oil and Gas
$23M19 May 2015 Edison, New Jersey, United States

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$8M05 Nov 2013 Richardson, Texas, United States

EcoFactor

Energy
Energy Management
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
SaaS
$10M14 Oct 2013 Redwood City, California, United States

Ingenu

Communications Infrastructure
Internet of Things
Mobile
Power Grid
Wireless
$31M17 Jul 2013 San Diego, California, United States

Eos Energy Storage

CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Oil and Gas
$15M20 May 2013 Edison, New Jersey, United States

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Total investments 11
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 0.31
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$1M26 Feb 2019 Richardson, Texas, United States

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$987K05 Jun 2018 Richardson, Texas, United States

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$6M17 Aug 2015 Richardson, Texas, United States

Eos Energy Storage

CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Oil and Gas
$23M19 May 2015 Edison, New Jersey, United States

EnTouch Controls

Analytics
Cloud Computing
Energy Management
Information Technology
Mobile
SaaS
Software
$8M05 Nov 2013 Richardson, Texas, United States

EcoFactor

Energy
Energy Management
Enterprise Software
Machine Learning
SaaS
$10M14 Oct 2013 Redwood City, California, United States

Ingenu

Communications Infrastructure
Internet of Things
Mobile
Power Grid
Wireless
$31M17 Jul 2013 San Diego, California, United States

Eos Energy Storage

CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Oil and Gas
$15M20 May 2013 Edison, New Jersey, United States
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