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Generation Investment Management

Founders Al Gore Colin le Duc David Blood Mark Ferguson Miguel Nogales Peter Harris

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Total investments 77
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$126M
Portfolio companies 44
Rounds per year 3.85
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
Exits 10
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Renewable Energy
  • SaaS
  • Energy
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Generation Investment Management is the famous VC, which was founded in 2004. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

The fund was created by Al Gore, Colin le Duc, David Blood, Mark Ferguson, Miguel Nogales, Peter Harris. The overall number of key employees were 8.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline DocuSign, SolarCity, Asana Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Transportation. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2012. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Generation Investment Management the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Generation Investment Management performs on 14 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Generation Investment Management, startups are often financed by Benchmark, Balderton Capital, Virgin Green Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, DAG Ventures, True North Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DAG Ventures, True North Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Elation Health

Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
Medical
$40M10 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Nature’s Fynd

Agriculture
AgTech
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sustainability
$80M24 Mar 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

DeepMap

Autonomous Vehicles
Computer
Machine Learning
Mapping Services
Software
Transportation
$60M01 Nov 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Gogoro

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Last Mile Transportation
Transportation
$300M20 Sep 2017 New Taipei, Taiwan

Toast

Mobile
Point of Sale
Restaurants
SaaS
Software
$101M25 Jul 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

GreenBytes

Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Virtualization
$7M03 Apr 2013 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

GreenBytes

Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Virtualization
$12M29 May 2012 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Sielo

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Sensor
$18M07 May 2012 Colorado, United States

Harvest Power

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
$110M12 Apr 2012 Massachusetts, United States
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Pivot Bio Raises $430M in Series D Funding

– Pivot Bio, a Berkeley, CA-based nitrogen innovator in agriculture, closed a $430m Series D funding.
– The round was led by DCVC and Temasek with participation from Generation Investment Management, G2 Venture Partners, Rockefeller Capital Management, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Continental Grain Company, Prelude Ventures; Pavilion Capital, Bunge Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, and Roger Underwood.
– The company intends to use the funds to focus on scaling its U.S. business and expanding into key international markets.

AlayaCare Raises $225 Million to Accelerate the Digital Transformation of Home Health Care

– AlayaCare, a global home and community care software company, announced a $225m CAD Series D funding round led by Generation Investment Management LLP with participation from Klass Capital and incumbent investors Inovia Capital, CDPQ, and Investissement Québec.
– The US is now the fastest-growing part of AlayaCare’s business, representing 7x growth in the last 24 months.
– AlayaCare will use the funding to continue global expansion, hire additional staff and further invest in innovation capabilities to build a more complete post-acute offering in addition to products that help solve labour market issues around employee shortages and churn.
– The transaction was supported by TD Securities Inc. as exclusive financial advisor, Aust Legal, and Stikeman Elliott LLP who acted as advisors for AlayaCare.

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Total investments 77
Average round size 126M
Rounds per year 3.85
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.43
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.90

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Elation Health

Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Health Care
Medical
$40M10 Dec 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Nature’s Fynd

Agriculture
AgTech
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sustainability
$80M24 Mar 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States

DeepMap

Autonomous Vehicles
Computer
Machine Learning
Mapping Services
Software
Transportation
$60M01 Nov 2018 Palo Alto, California, United States

Gogoro

Automotive
Electric Vehicle
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Last Mile Transportation
Transportation
$300M20 Sep 2017 New Taipei, Taiwan

Toast

Mobile
Point of Sale
Restaurants
SaaS
Software
$101M25 Jul 2017 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

GreenBytes

Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Virtualization
$7M03 Apr 2013 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

GreenBytes

Enterprise Software
Infrastructure
Virtualization
$12M29 May 2012 Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Sielo

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Electronics
Lighting
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
Sensor
$18M07 May 2012 Colorado, United States

Harvest Power

Clean Energy
Energy
Renewable Energy
$110M12 Apr 2012 Massachusetts, United States
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