Top 14 investors with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in GreenTech industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 14 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors that have invested in Private Equity stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in GreenTech industry. GreenTech relates to products or services that improve operational performance while also reducing costs, energy consumption, waste, or negative effects on the environment. It includes recycling and waste management, CleanTech, and environmental engineering.

Amount of money raised in GreenTech funding rounds is $12.1B, which is 3.3% of the total amount of money raised in Private Equity rounds over the last 4 years.

Top 14 investors with the biggest sum of Private Equity funding rounds in GreenTech industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography - The funds are based in 2 regions: North America and Western Europe with the majority being in North America. The most common country among top VCs is The United States which hosts 8 funds. There are also funds from Switzerland, The United Kingdom and Italy. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. VCs tend to invest in startups from The United States, but also invest in startups from The United Kingdom, Italy, and France. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
• Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Transportation, Telecommunications and Industrial.
• Important Years - The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1856 and the newest one in 2018. In 2013 the most amount of funds were founded. VCs in the sample made the most deals in the period from 2013 to 2021. For some funds, 2018 was the year with the most amount of deals. The biggest amount of successful exits happened between 2007 and 2021 years. For some funds, 2018 became the year with the most successful exits.
• Investments - Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 - 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 2, the maximum is 593. Average number of funding rounds is 100.3 while median is 49.0. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 135. Average amount of lead investments is 20.5 while median is 4.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 0. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -71.0 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 5.13 and the median is 15.66. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds - VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 - 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 2 - 3 investors. VCs in the sample have an average round size of more than 1 billion and less than 100 thousands. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is close to zero at minimum and 6.07 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 1.75 and median is 0.69. The most common multiplicator value is close to zero.