The Engine
Venture Capital
Active
Cambridge, United States
72
52M
39
9.00
7
0.46
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2016 was created The Engine, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Cambridge.
Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 21 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Engine, startups are often financed by National Science Foundation, MassChallenge, Breakout Labs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Prelude Ventures, LLC, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Hyperplane Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Prelude Ventures, LLC, PRIME Impact Fund, OGCI Climate Investments.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Commonwealth Fusion, ISEE, C2Sense. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Food Processing. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.
Investor highlights
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 400000000
- Fund raised date
- 2024-06-18
Analytics
- Total investments
- 72
- Lead investments
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 9.00
- Follow on index
- 0.46
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (20)
- Health Care (13)
- Energy (11)
- Industrial (9)
- Renewable Energy (9) Show 60 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (72)
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 6
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 27M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.82
- Strategy success index
- 0.30
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axoft | 18 Oct 2022 | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical, Neuroscience, Therapeutics, Electronics | Seed | 8M | United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge |
| Hyperlight | 01 Dec 2018 | Semiconductor | Seed | United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge |
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