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SunShot Initiative fund

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 7
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Grant

Areas of investment

  • Solar
  • Software
  • Renewable Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
Summary

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Sunrun, Faraday. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Education, SaaS.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the SunShot Initiative fund, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are EPIC Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Elemental Excelerator, Tech Coast Angels, SharesPost Investment Management.

This SunShot Initiative fund works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ENKI Technologies

Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
Web Apps
Web Development
09 Jan 2017 Santa Monica, California, United States

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Total investments 7
Average round size 1M
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.29

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ENKI Technologies

Information Technology
Mobile Apps
Software
Web Apps
Web Development
09 Jan 2017 Santa Monica, California, United States
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