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Schmidt Family Foundation

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Total investments 8
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.47
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.38
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Areas of investment

  • CleanTech
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Management
  • Internet of Things
  • Advanced Materials
Summary

In 2006 was created Schmidt Family Foundation, which is appeared as Corporate Investor.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 participants. Despite the Schmidt Family Foundation, startups are often financed by SOSV, RebelBio, Dorm Room Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are VentureWell, Urban Us, Social Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ONE WORLD Training & Investments.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Business Intelligence, Energy Management. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Aclima

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nuru

Energy
Solar
$40M03 Jul 2023 -

Radiator Labs

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Hardware
Internet of Things
Smart Building
$30M18 May 2023 Brooklyn, New York, United States

BlocPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Smart Cities
$8M22 Feb 2021 New York, United States

Aclima

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Environmental Engineering
GovTech
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Machine Learning
Network Hardware
Pollution Control
Sensor
Software
$40M19 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Aclima

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Environmental Engineering
GovTech
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Machine Learning
Network Hardware
Pollution Control
Sensor
Software
$24M26 Jun 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

BlocPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Smart Cities
$200K18 Jul 2016 New York, United States

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Total investments 8
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 0.47
Peak activity year 2023
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.38
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nuru

Energy
Solar
$40M03 Jul 2023 -

Radiator Labs

Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Hardware
Internet of Things
Smart Building
$30M18 May 2023 Brooklyn, New York, United States

BlocPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Smart Cities
$8M22 Feb 2021 New York, United States

Aclima

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Environmental Engineering
GovTech
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Machine Learning
Network Hardware
Pollution Control
Sensor
Software
$40M19 Nov 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Aclima

Analytics
Enterprise Software
Environmental Engineering
GovTech
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Location Based Services
Machine Learning
Network Hardware
Pollution Control
Sensor
Software
$24M26 Jun 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

BlocPower

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy Efficiency
Energy Management
Smart Cities
$200K18 Jul 2016 New York, United States
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