Volkswagen Group

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Wolfsburg, Germany

Total investments

29

Average round size

381M

Portfolio companies

18

Rounds per year

0.34

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

4

Areas of investment
AutomotiveTransportationSoftwareMobileManufacturingCleanTechElectronicsEnergyClean EnergyBattery

Summary

In 1937 was created Volkswagen Group, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Wolfsburg. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

The overall number of key employees were 11.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Analytics, Internet. 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. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Argo AI, Gett, QuantumScape The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Volkswagen Group, startups are often financed by Baring Vostok Capital Partners, ZhenFund, Vostok New Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bayerische Motoren Werke, Access Industries, innogy. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Seedmatch, Sberbank, Prelude Ventures, LLC.

Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Comparing to the other companies, this Volkswagen Group performs on 15 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 51 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Volkswagen Group is more than 1 billion dollars.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
8
Exits
4
Rounds per year
0.34
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Energy (10)
  • Automotive (9)
  • Transportation (9)
  • Battery (8)
  • Clean Energy (6)
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Investments by region
  • Sweden (5)
  • United States (6)
  • China (5)
  • United Kingdom (3)
  • Germany (3)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.52
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
2.13
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Northvolt 29 Sep 2020 CleanTech, Electronics, Energy, Clean Energy, Battery Early Stage Venture 600M Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden
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