Investments
108Portfolio Exits
22Funds
7Partners & Customers
1About Capricorn Partners
Capricorn Partners is an independent manager of private and quoted equity funds that invest in minority shareholding positions of innovative companies with technology as competitive advantage.
Capricorn Partners Headquarter Location
De Jonge St. Jocob Lei 19/1 - B-3000
Leuven, 3000,
Belgium
+32 (0)16 28 41 00
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Latest Capricorn Partners News
Jun 24, 2022
EH2's co-founders. June 22 (Renewables Now) - Electric Hydrogen (EH2), a US developer of electrolysers for use in hard-to-decarbonise industries, has raised USD 198 million (EUR 187.7m) in a funding round led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech and with participation from industrial majors such as Rio Tinto. Other names that backed the Series B equity and venture debt round include S2G Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Trinity Capital, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Cosan, Equinor Ventures, Honeywell and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as well as existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Capricorn Partners, Energy Impact Partners and Prelude Ventures. EH2 designs electrolysis systems for the high-volume, low-cost production of fossil-free hydrogen required to support massive industrial operations, including in steel, ammonia and freight transport. More specifically, the firm focuses on building electrolyser systems with a minimum capacity of 100 MW. It says its technology works seamlessly with cheap variable renewable power and is able to vastly reduce the per-kg production cost of fossil-free hydrogen. EH2’s plants include the full stack of technology from electrolysers to the balance of plant components and while the company itself will not be engaged in project development, construction, or financing, it will be a partner in each customer project, it notes. The company intends to use the newly-secured capital for the scale-up of its high-throughput electrolyser technology and for the implementation of demonstration projects in North America and Europe next year. It is already running an electrolyser stack at its research facilities. EH2 is led by co-founders Raffi Garabedian and Dave Eaglesham, who are former executives at First Solar, as well as Dorian West, former engineering lead at Tesla, and Derek Warnick, former Company Builder at Breakthrough Energy Ventures. “Rio Tinto is investing in Electric Hydrogen to support the development of emerging technologies with the potential to help decarbonise our operations and supply chains. We produce materials that are increasingly required for our society’s transition to a low carbon future, so it is critical to pursue new ways to work towards net zero in supplying them,” commented Nigel Steward, chief scientist at mining giant Rio Tinto. (USD 1 = EUR 0.948)
Capricorn Partners Investments
108 Investments
Capricorn Partners has made 108 investments. Their latest investment was in Electric Hydrogen as part of their Series B on June 6, 2022.
Capricorn Partners Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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6/22/2022 | Series B | Electric Hydrogen | Yes | 2 | ||
5/10/2022 | Series A | Zozio | $4.2M | Yes | Industrya, and The Faktory | 2 |
4/29/2022 | Private Equity | Econic Technologies | Yes | 1 | ||
12/2/2021 | Series B | |||||
10/22/2021 | Seed VC |
Date | 6/22/2022 | 5/10/2022 | 4/29/2022 | 12/2/2021 | 10/22/2021 |
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Round | Series B | Series A | Private Equity | Series B | Seed VC |
Company | Electric Hydrogen | Zozio | Econic Technologies | ||
Amount | $4.2M | ||||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Industrya, and The Faktory | ||||
Sources | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Capricorn Partners Portfolio Exits
22 Portfolio Exits
Capricorn Partners has 22 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was c-LEcta on February 15, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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2/15/2022 | Corporate Majority | 6 | |||
6/1/2021 | Acquired | 6 | |||
3/1/2021 | Acquired | 12 | |||
Capricorn Partners Acquisitions
1 Acquisition
Capricorn Partners acquired 1 company. Their latest acquisition was Amplexor on March 18, 2013.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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3/18/2013 | Management Buyout | 1 |
Date | 3/18/2013 |
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Investment Stage | |
Companies | |
Valuation | |
Total Funding | |
Note | Management Buyout |
Sources | 1 |
Capricorn Partners Fund History
7 Fund Histories
Capricorn Partners has 7 funds, including Capricorn Digital Growth Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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3/3/2022 | Capricorn Digital Growth Fund | $93.6M | 1 | ||
1/7/2019 | Capricorn Sustainable Chemistry Fund | ||||
12/31/2012 | Capricorn Health-tech Fund | ||||
12/18/2012 | Capricorn ICT Arkiv | ||||
5/21/2008 | Capricorn Cleantech Fund |
Closing Date | 3/3/2022 | 1/7/2019 | 12/31/2012 | 12/18/2012 | 5/21/2008 |
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Fund | Capricorn Digital Growth Fund | Capricorn Sustainable Chemistry Fund | Capricorn Health-tech Fund | Capricorn ICT Arkiv | Capricorn Cleantech Fund |
Fund Type | |||||
Status | |||||
Amount | $93.6M | ||||
Sources | 1 |
Capricorn Partners Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
Capricorn Partners has 1 strategic partners and customers. Capricorn Partners recently partnered with Aconterra on October 10, 2021.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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10/7/2021 | Partner | Belgium | The strategic partnership comes with a € 10 million capital increase by Aconterra into Capricorn Digital . | 1 |
Date | 10/7/2021 |
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Type | Partner |
Business Partner | |
Country | Belgium |
News Snippet | The strategic partnership comes with a € 10 million capital increase by Aconterra into Capricorn Digital . |
Sources | 1 |
Capricorn Partners Team
3 Team Members
Capricorn Partners has 3 team members, including current Managing Partner, Jos B Peeters.
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