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1955 Capital

Founders Andrew Chung

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Total investments 7
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.88
Lead investments 2
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.43
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Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
  • CleanTech
  • Battery
Summary

1955 Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

This organization was formed by Andrew Chung.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. 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 successful fund investment fields, there are Biotechnology, CleanTech. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Gridtential Energy, Sustainable Bioproducts.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the 1955 Capital, startups are often financed by The Roda Group, Power-Sonic, Leoch Battery. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are The Roda Group, Power-Sonic, Phoenix Venture Partners LLC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Cavallo Ventures.

The real fund results show that this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2017.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Robobee

Renewable Energy
Robotics
20 Dec 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Crop Enhancement

Agriculture
Chemical
Farming
$8M14 Apr 2020 San Jose, California, United States

Nature’s Fynd

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

Nature’s Fynd

Agriculture
AgTech
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sustainability
$33M04 Feb 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Gridtential Energy

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

Crop Enhancement

Agriculture
Chemical
Farming
$8M13 Sep 2016 San Jose, 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 7
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 0.88
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.43
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Robobee

Renewable Energy
Robotics
20 Dec 2022 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Crop Enhancement

Agriculture
Chemical
Farming
$8M14 Apr 2020 San Jose, California, United States

Nature’s Fynd

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

Nature’s Fynd

Agriculture
AgTech
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Sustainability
$33M04 Feb 2019 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Gridtential Energy

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

Crop Enhancement

Agriculture
Chemical
Farming
$8M13 Sep 2016 San Jose, California, United States
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