Siemens

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Munich, Germany

Total investments

40

Average round size

84M

Portfolio companies

34

Rounds per year

0.23

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

11

Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSecurityEnergyRenewable EnergyElectric VehicleElectrical Distribution

Summary

Siemens is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1847. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Munich. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Siemens is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Siemens works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Siemens, startups are often financed by New Enterprise Associates, Target Partners, Shortcut Ventures GmbH. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), New Enterprise Associates, Mitsui Global Investment. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Next47, European Investment Bank (EIB), Black Coral Capital.

The current fund was established by Frank Anton, Johann Halske, Werner Siemens. Besides them, we counted 62 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Automotive. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ChargePoint, STSN, Hyperchip For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techHealthcareMobilityProptech/Real Estate
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
40
Lead investments
8
Exits
11
Rounds per year
0.23
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Energy (8)
  • Renewable Energy (8)
  • Software (8)
  • Electric Vehicle (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (25)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • Australia (1)
  • Norway (1)
  • Canada (2)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
388M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
0.96
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Kanbana 01 Jan 2015 Software, Computer, Embedded Software Seed Midtjylland, Aarhus, Denmark
Worwox 06 Dec 2018 Software, Web Apps, Web Development Seed 2M United States, California, San Francisco
Wurldtech 30 Apr 2012 Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Skill Assessment Early Stage Venture 4M Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
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