Bosch Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Gerlingen, Germany

Total investments

140

Average round size

28M

Portfolio companies

82

Rounds per year

8.24

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

15

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningRoboticsManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorInternet of ThingsSensor

Summary

In 2007 was created Robert Bosch Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Stuttgart. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. Robert Bosch Venture Capital seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

Opposing the other organizations, this Robert Bosch Venture Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Robert Bosch Venture Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Robert Bosch Venture Capital, startups are often financed by Seraphim Capital, Draper Esprit, Dell Technologies Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Esprit, Seraphim Capital, Samsung Catalyst Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Draper Esprit, Seraphim Capital, Intel Capital.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Artificial Intelligence. 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 no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Graphcore, Zimplistic, WaveOptics Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The overall number of key employees were 11.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistDeep TechAI/Big DataSemiconductorsRobotics Show 9 more
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 295000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-03

Analytics

Total investments
140
Lead investments
19
Exits
15
Rounds per year
8.24
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (45)
  • Artificial Intelligence (39)
  • Information Technology (28)
  • Machine Learning (27)
  • Internet of Things (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (59)
  • United Kingdom (21)
  • Germany (7)
  • Israel (11)
  • China (12)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
86M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.65
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Li Industries 09 May 2024 Manufacturing, CleanTech, Advanced Materials, Environmental Engineering, Battery, Recycling Early Stage Venture 36M United States, Virginia, Blacksburg
Sunlight.Io 26 Jan 2023 Information Technology, Big Data, Virtualization Early Stage Venture England, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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