TDK Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

San Jose, United States

Total investments

49

Average round size

25M

Portfolio companies

36

Rounds per year

9.80

Lead investments

9

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
TransportationArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsManufacturingAutonomous VehiclesSemiconductorElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyBattery

Summary

TDK Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2019. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. TDK Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main department of described VC is located in the San Jose.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Wheels, Starship Technologies For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Travel. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Nicolas Sauvage.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the TDK Ventures, startups are often financed by Morpheus Ventures, Matrix Partners, ZX Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Swiss Post, Shasta Ventures, Qu Ventures.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep TechManufacturingEnergyClimate techMobility Show 3 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
49
Lead investments
9
Exits
2
Rounds per year
9.80
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (12)
  • Renewable Energy (9)
  • Transportation (7)
  • Electronics (7)
  • Semiconductor (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (37)
  • Germany (2)
  • Australia (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Israel (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
54M
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
5.95
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fabric8Labs 07 Feb 2023 3D Technology, Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Printing Early Stage Venture 50M United States, California, San Diego
Groq 12 Aug 2020 Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics Early Stage Venture United States, California, Mountain View

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