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Renault

Founders Fernand Renault Louis Renault Marcel Renault

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$115M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
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Areas of investment

  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Battery
  • Industrial
Summary

In 1898 was created Renault, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Boulogne-billancourt.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Renault, startups are often financed by Xavier Niel, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Jacques-Antoine Granjon. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are iBionext Network, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by iBionext Network, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, 360 Capital Partners.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Prophesee, Ionic Materials, Devialet The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Android, Marketing.

The fund was created by Fernand Renault, Louis Renault, Marcel Renault.

The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Verkor

Battery
Electronics
Industrial
Manufacturing
$1B14 Sep 2023 Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France

Prophesee

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Drones
Internet of Things
$19M21 Feb 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ionic Materials

Advanced Materials
Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
$65M07 Feb 2018 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Jedlix

Automotive
Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
10 Oct 2017 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Devialet

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
$118M28 Nov 2016 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Prophesee

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Drones
Internet of Things
$16M24 Oct 2016 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Verkor Raises €100M in Funding

– Verkor is a Grenoble-based battery cell producer.
– Company raised €100m in funding.
– The round was co-led by EQT Ventures and Renault Group with participation from the French Government and Auvergne- Rhône-Alpes Region, EIT InnoEnergy, Groupe IDEC, Schneider Electric, Capgemini, Arkema, Tokai COBEX and the Fund for Ecologic Modernisation of Transport (FMET) managed by Demeter.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate expansion, and trigger the construction of the Verkor Innovation Centre (VIC), where the advanced battery cells and modules will be designed.

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Total investments 13
Average round size 115M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.15
Group Appearance index 0.62

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Verkor

Battery
Electronics
Industrial
Manufacturing
$1B14 Sep 2023 Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France

Prophesee

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Drones
Internet of Things
$19M21 Feb 2018 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ionic Materials

Advanced Materials
Battery
Electronics
Manufacturing
$65M07 Feb 2018 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Jedlix

Automotive
Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
10 Oct 2017 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Devialet

Audio
Consumer Electronics
Electronics
$118M28 Nov 2016 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Prophesee

Artificial Intelligence
Automotive
Drones
Internet of Things
$16M24 Oct 2016 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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