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Royal Dutch Shell

Founders Samuel Samuel

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$72M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 0.18
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 2
Key employees 38

Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Renewable Energy
  • Industrial
  • Oil and Gas
Summary

Royal Dutch Shell is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1907. The venture was found in Europe in The Netherlands. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the The Hague.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Royal Dutch Shell, startups are often financed by Venture Investors, SunFunder, RockPort Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RockPort Capital, Nth Power, Chrysalix Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Coca-Cola Company, Tencent Holdings, SunFunder.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zhenkunhang, SolarNow. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Energy Storage. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - The Netherlands. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund.

Besides them, we counted 37 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Royal Dutch Shell the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 35 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Royal Dutch Shell performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Powergen Renewable Energy

Energy
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
Solar
$15M05 Nov 2019 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Industrial
Manufacturing
$129M28 Aug 2018 Shanghai, China

Nostromo

Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
$6M01 Mar 2018 -

SolarNow

Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
Solar
$9M15 Dec 2017 Gelderland

GlassPoint Solar

Energy
Industrial
Oil and Gas
Solar
$53M08 Sep 2014 Fremont, California, United States

GlassPoint Solar

Energy
Industrial
Oil and Gas
Solar
$26M11 Dec 2012 Fremont, California, United States

Virent Energy Systems

Energy
Fossil Fuels
Renewable Energy
$46M08 Jun 2010 Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Total investments 21
Average round size 72M
Rounds per year 0.18
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.71

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Powergen Renewable Energy

Energy
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
Solar
$15M05 Nov 2019 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Industrial
Manufacturing
$129M28 Aug 2018 Shanghai, China

Nostromo

Energy
Energy Storage
Power Grid
$6M01 Mar 2018 -

SolarNow

Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
Solar
$9M15 Dec 2017 Gelderland

GlassPoint Solar

Energy
Industrial
Oil and Gas
Solar
$53M08 Sep 2014 Fremont, California, United States

GlassPoint Solar

Energy
Industrial
Oil and Gas
Solar
$26M11 Dec 2012 Fremont, California, United States

Virent Energy Systems

Energy
Fossil Fuels
Renewable Energy
$46M08 Jun 2010 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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