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Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures

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Total investments 73
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$24M
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 6.08
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 3
Key employees 10
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Energy
  • Oil and Gas
  • Industrial
  • Internet of Things
Summary

Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Dhahran. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

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. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 52 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 participants. Despite the Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, ARCH Venture Partners, GE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Chevron Technology Ventures, Schlumberger, Intel Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Saudi Aramco, Future Fund, Schlumberger.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Oil and Gas, Internet of Things. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Desktop Metal, ConXtech, 908 Devices.

The overall number of key employees were 10.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xage Security

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Network Security
Security
Software
$60M02 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Redex

Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
Solar
$8M30 Aug 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

ANYbotics

Industrial Automation
Robotics
$50M16 May 2023 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Syzygy Plasmonics

Chemical
$76M16 Nov 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

Grand perspective

Public Safety
$8M17 Oct 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Data Gumbo

Blockchain
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Oil and Gas
Software
$4M10 Aug 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

Carbon Clean Solutions

Biomass Energy
Environmental Consulting
Industrial
Oil and Gas
Pollution Control
$165M11 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Daphne Technology

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Marine Transportation
Nanotechnology
Power Grid
Shipping
$10M29 Oct 2021 Vaud, Switzerland

NexWafe

Energy
Industrial Engineering
Solar
$37M12 Oct 2021 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
News
Energy Vault Raises $100M in Series C Funding

– Energy Vault is a Westlake Village, CA-based creator of gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage solutions with its proprietary technology.
– Company raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by existing investor Prime Movers Lab, with participation from other existing investors SoftBank Vision Fund, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Helena, and Idealab X, and new investors Pickering Energy Partners through its Energy Equity Opportunity Fund, SailingStone Global Energy Transition, A.T. Gekko, Crexa Capital Advisors LLC, Green Storage Solutions Venture I LLC, and Gordon Crawford.
– The company intends to use the funds to ramp up multi-continent deployments of its innovative EVx™ platform, including fulfilling a pipeline of customer agreements across markets in the U.S., Middle East, Europe, and Australia.

Data Gumbo Completes $7.7M Series B Round

– Data Gumbo, provider of GumboNet™ – the massively interconnected industrial smart contract network secured and powered by blockchain, today announced that it has closed its Series B funding round totaling $7.7 million.
– The investments were led by Equinor Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Equinor, with participation from Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund of Saudi Aramco, and Bay Area and Houston-based venture firm L37.
– Data Gumbo is a technology company that provides GumboNet™ – a massively interconnected industrial smart contract network secured and powered by blockchain.

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Total investments 73
Average round size 24M
Rounds per year 6.08
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.74

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Xage Security

Information Technology
Internet of Things
Network Security
Security
Software
$60M02 Nov 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Redex

Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
Solar
$8M30 Aug 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

ANYbotics

Industrial Automation
Robotics
$50M16 May 2023 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Syzygy Plasmonics

Chemical
$76M16 Nov 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

Grand perspective

Public Safety
$8M17 Oct 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Data Gumbo

Blockchain
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Oil and Gas
Software
$4M10 Aug 2022 Houston, Texas, United States

Carbon Clean Solutions

Biomass Energy
Environmental Consulting
Industrial
Oil and Gas
Pollution Control
$165M11 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Daphne Technology

Clean Energy
CleanTech
Marine Transportation
Nanotechnology
Power Grid
Shipping
$10M29 Oct 2021 Vaud, Switzerland

NexWafe

Energy
Industrial Engineering
Solar
$37M12 Oct 2021 Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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