Q1 2016 Innovation Monitor
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Industry Trends
Top Venture Deals & Corporate Investors
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Industry Trends
Top Venture Deals & Corporate Investors
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Contents
Global cleantech venture capital investment with Mobility Services breakout
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Two consecutive quarters of growth in traditional sectors
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$2.3
$2.7
$2.1
$2.2
$3.1
$2.5
$2.7
$2.7
$2.5
$2.4
$2.0
$1.9
$1.3
$2.4 $1.4
$2.1
$1.8
$2.7
$2.3
$2.1
$1.7
$3.6 $2.1
$2.5
$2.9
$2.5 $2.2
$0.7
$5.2
$1.2
$1.7
279 255
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288 289 274
290 271
329
281 269
317 341
352
291
327 317 300
279 264 255
227
188 190
237
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3Q11
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2Q12
3Q12
4Q12
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3Q13
4Q13
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1Q16
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Deal Volum
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$ - Traditional Cleantech $ - Mobility Services Total Deal Volume
Average deal size closer to 5 year average ($8.8M)
Average round sizes in clean technology venture capital*
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$2
$3
$2
$2
$3
$4
$4
$3
$2
$3
$2
$2
$2
$1
$2
$2
$2
$2
$2
$3
$2
$3
$4
$4
$3
$14
$18 $15 $12
$19 $14
$14
$17 $12
$14 $14 $11
$7
$13
$10
$13
$11
$14
$16
$20
$13
$22
$28 $25
$13
$8
$11 $9
$8
$11 $9 $10
$10
$7 $9 $8
$6
$4
$7 $6
$8 $6
$8 $9
$11
$8
$13
$18
$14
$9
$0
$5
$10
$15
$20
$25
$30
1Q10
2Q10
3Q10
4Q10
1Q11
2Q11
3Q11
4Q11
1Q12
2Q12
3Q12
4Q12
1Q13
2Q13
3Q13
4Q13
1Q14
2Q14
3Q14
4Q14
1Q15
2Q15
3Q15
4Q15
1Q16
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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ions
Seed & Series A Series B+ Overall*Excludes outlier deals above $350M
Strong quarter for later-stage deals
Deal volume comparison between early and late stage
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128 117
76
94 99
127
110 112
96
138
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
1Q102Q103Q104Q101Q112Q113Q114Q111Q122Q123Q124Q121Q132Q133Q134Q131Q142Q143Q144Q141Q152Q153Q154Q151Q16
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Dea
l Cou
nt
Seed & Series A Series B+
Global 1Q16 cleantech venture capital investment Top geographies by deal volume
Washington, Florida, Minnesota join top states/provinces
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75.9%
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62
15 13
9 8 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 3
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North America, 73%
Europe & Israel, 18.49%
Asia Pacific, 7.44%
Other, 1.28%
Corporate deals with 37% lower dollars than 2015 average
Dollars invested and volume of deals with corporate participation*
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*Dollar totals inclusive of co-investors
$895
$1,031 $644
$822
$1,320
$841
$934
$874
$773
$1,169
$692
$770 $500
$1,113
$639
$1,138
$903 $712
$853 $649
$765
$1,355
$1,374
$1,205
$740
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51 54
59
67
51
46
71
61
48 52
47
75
47
64
57
63 61
54 52 52
59
43
41
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$0
$200
$400
$600
$800
$1,000
$1,200
$1,400
$1,600
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2Q10
3Q10
4Q10
1Q11
2Q11
3Q11
4Q11
1Q12
2Q12
3Q12
4Q12
1Q13
2Q13
3Q13
4Q13
1Q14
2Q14
3Q14
4Q14
1Q15
2Q15
3Q15
4Q15
1Q16
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Mill
ions
$ Investment in Rounds with Corporate Participation Deals with Corporate Participation
Rate of corporate participation down 20% on 2015 average
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Deal Volume with corporate participation, percentage of all deals
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55
40 51 54
59 67
51 46
71 61
48 52 47
75
47
64 57
63 61 54 52 52
59
43 41
20%
16%
21%
19% 21%
24%
18% 17%
22% 22%
18% 17%
14%
21%
16%
20% 18%
21% 22% 21%
21%
24% 34%
22%
17%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Deals with Corporate Participation Percentage of Deal Volume with Corporate Participation
However, corporates are co-investing more often
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Average number of corporate co-investors in rounds exhibiting corporate participation
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1.27
1.48
1.29
1.35
1.27
1.31 1.29 1.28
1.26
1.35
1.25
1.32
1.36
1.42
1.48
1.1
1.15
1.2
1.25
1.3
1.35
1.4
1.45
1.5
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016YTD
Sector shares of cleantech venture capital (deals)
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Percentage share of total deal volume by sector over time
16%
19%
14%
6%
12%
5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 YTD
transportation
agriculture & food
energy efficiency
advanced materials
solar
energy storage
Sector shares of cleantech venture capital (dollars)
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Percentage share of total dollars invested by sector over time*
34%
11%
20%
9%
3%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 YTD
transportation
energy efficiency
solar
agriculture & food
advanced materials
Sector shares of dollars invested
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*Excludes outliers above $350M; all deals below $30M represent <1.5%
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Dollar amount, and percentage of total, by sector
$735M 34%
$446M 20% $232M 11%
$205M 9%
$93M 4%
$76M 4%
$62M 3%
$36M 2% $30M
$18M $10M $9M $8M $4M $3M $2M
$209M 10%**
transportation
solar
energy efficiency
agriculture & food
conventional fuels
energy storage
advanced materials
smart grid
biofuels & biochemicals
water & wastewater
wind
fuel cells & hydrogen
nuclear
recycling & waste
biomass generation
hydro & marine power
other cleantech
**”Other Cleantech” includes cross-sectoral digital & IoT technologies, sustainability reporting software, and multidisciplinary project developers in solar, wind, biomass, etc.
Industry Trends
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Top 1Q16 cleantech venture deals
Description Round Size Investors Company
Provider of on-demand ride services $1B General Motors, Didi Kuaidi, Janus Capital, Rakuten, Alibaba, Saudi Arabia Kingdom Holdings
Provider of solar installation and services $300M Energy Capital Partners
(Dada) Developer of a SaaS platform for last mile logistics $300M Greenwood Investment, Sequoia Capital, DST
Global
Provider of on-demand ride services $200M LetterOne
Provider of innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency financing $70M Angeleno Group, Apollo GM, Claremont Creek
Ventures, LL Funds, NGEN, Prelude Ventures
Developer of microbial plant nutrition products $56M Flagship Ventures
Developer of smart energy efficient homes $45M EDBI, Singapore Technologies Telemedia, The
Westly Group, E.ON Ventures
Developer of data management solutions for farms $41M Mitsui, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
Osmington Inc
Developer of cloud-based interactive mapping software $40M Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Michael
Lynton, Tom Stafford, Yuri Milner
Developer of IoT solutions for commercial buildings $25M Tao Capital, KPCB, RockPort Capital Partners,
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
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Top corporate investors in 2016
Deals Exemplary Portfolio Companies Corporate
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3 Stratoscale, Inpria, Arrayent, Arrayent, SBA Materials, Chargifi, Prieto Battery, Ninebot, Nuovo Film, Qnovo, iZettle, Yuneec, Maana, Peloton Technology, Airware, Sigfox, others
3 Sight Machine, Motive Drilling Company, mPrest,
mPrest, Sungevity, Stem, FlexGen, Ingenu, Sensity Systems, MatterFab, Maana, eVolution Networks, Bit Stew Systems, Data Torrent, others
3 Off Grid Electric, Powerhive Solidia Technologies, Stem, Sunverge Energy, Sunfire, NanoH20, NexSteppe
2 Stratoscale, Webradar Stratoscale, Vixom, Panoramic Power, Broadlink, Streetline, Waze, A123 Systems
2 Veniam Works Platfora, Sensity Systems, Waygum, Evrythng, Control 4, Atlantis Computing, iControl Networks
2 Farmers Edge, Phytech Stem, LanzaTech, Autotalks, Sumitomo Corporation, SCI Energy,
2 Inpria, NuTonomy Jibo, Seeo, Kateeva, Inpria, NovaLED, Global Steel Exchange, Voltaix
Industry Trends
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Q1 2016 cleantech M&A highlights
Acquirer Target Venture Backers Deal Size/PIC
$1B $42.09M
New Horizon Capital, GIMV, Capricorn Venture Partners, LRM
$431M N/A Company went public in 2010
$350M $1.3M
Firelake Capital Management, Acadia Woods Partners, Lux Capital
Undisclosed $18.8M
Spark Capital, Flight Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Initialized Capital, Maven Ventures,, Y Combinator, others…
Undisclosed $36.88M Oaktree Capital Management
Undisclosed $18M
Columbia Lake Partners, SVB, Braemar Energy Ventures, SET Ventures, Hermes GPE
Undisclosed N/A
Edison Int., KPCB, GV, Claremont Creek, Clean Pacific Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, Hitachi, ClearSky, Dominion Resources
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Merger