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The Roda Group

Founders Roger Strauch

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Total investments 31
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 15
Rounds per year 1.15
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.52
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Renewable Energy
  • Software
  • CleanTech
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Berkeley.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Roda Group, startups are often financed by Chrysalix Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Enterprise Associates, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, OGCI Climate Investments, Greylock Partners.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NightFire Software, PolyServe, Coolboard.com. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Services, Water. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Roger Strauch. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this The Roda Group performs on 2 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2011. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Svante

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Environmental Engineering
Industrial
Industrial Engineering
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
$10M25 Jun 2019 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Svante

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Industrial
Oil and Gas
$11M16 Jul 2018 Canada, British Columbia

Gridtential Energy

Battery
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$11M07 Sep 2017 San Jose, California, United States

Svante

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Industrial
Oil and Gas
$7M11 Jul 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Axine Water Technologies

Renewable Energy
Waste Management
Water
$8M14 Sep 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia

Axine Water Technologies

Renewable Energy
Waste Management
Water
$5M12 Feb 2014 Vancouver, British Columbia

Gridtential Energy

Battery
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$969K08 Mar 2013 San Jose, California, United States

Solazyme

Biofuel
Biomass Energy
Chemical
$45M26 Aug 2008 South San Francisco, California, United States

Solazyme

Biofuel
Biomass Energy
Chemical
$10M06 Mar 2007 South San Francisco, California, United States
News
Gridtential Raises $12M in Funding

– Gridtential Energy, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based creator of advanced AGM battery technology Silicon Joule, raised $12M in financing.
– The round was led by 1955 Capital with participation from Silicon Valley Bank, August Capital cofounder David Marquardt, ReneSola CEO Yumin Liu and existing investors East Penn Manufacturing, Crown Battery and the Roda Group joining as well.
– The company, which has raised $28M to date, intends to use the funds to support a new production line of advanced lead reference batteries, including the single-block 24V deep-cycle lead battery.

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Total investments 31
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 1.15
Peak activity year 2000
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.52
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Svante

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Environmental Engineering
Industrial
Industrial Engineering
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
$10M25 Jun 2019 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Svante

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Industrial
Oil and Gas
$11M16 Jul 2018 Canada, British Columbia

Gridtential Energy

Battery
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$11M07 Sep 2017 San Jose, California, United States

Svante

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Industrial
Oil and Gas
$7M11 Jul 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Axine Water Technologies

Renewable Energy
Waste Management
Water
$8M14 Sep 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia

Axine Water Technologies

Renewable Energy
Waste Management
Water
$5M12 Feb 2014 Vancouver, British Columbia

Gridtential Energy

Battery
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Storage
Renewable Energy
$969K08 Mar 2013 San Jose, California, United States

Solazyme

Biofuel
Biomass Energy
Chemical
$45M26 Aug 2008 South San Francisco, California, United States

Solazyme

Biofuel
Biomass Energy
Chemical
$10M06 Mar 2007 South San Francisco, California, United States
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