FCF Fox Company Finance GmbH is happy to publish the “Robotics Enterprise Capital Report – 2022”.
The report is a part of the “FCF DeepTech Sequence”, which is a quarterly collection of studies monitoring European enterprise capital funding tendencies inside 4 foremost DeepTech verticals.
Important findings are:
- Funding volumes proceed to rise: Whereas the variety of annual VC offers has stagnated at round 300 since 2018, the overall quantity continues to rise, reaching a file €2.9bn in 2021. This is because of mega offers (CRM Surgical with €497m & €239m and Exotec with €295m) on the one hand and customarily larger common and median deal values however
- The maturity of the Robotics sector is growing: as well as, deal varieties and traders are altering: Whereas in 2017 66% of offers have been early-stage offers (accelerator and seed capital) from respective traders, this share drops to 33% in H1/2022
- The UK is the main nation for robotics investments: With a financing quantity of €1.5bn in 2017 – H1/2022, UK is forward of France with €1.0bn and Germany with €777 million.
- The related sub-sectors “Medical Robots” and “Industrial Robots” appeal to probably the most capital: “Medical Robots” appear to dominate with 31% of the €4.4bn complete quantity of related VC investments from 2017 – H1 2022. Nonetheless, that is because of the very excessive funding volumes of CMR Surgical (€859m since 2017). Adjusting for this outlier, Medical Robotics represents solely c. 14% of the amount (€291m) and is overtaken by the basic segments “Industrial Robots” (€1.3bn) with the €295m mega deal from Exotec and “Robotic Enablers” (€1.0bn).
- Apart from the assorted EU autos, bpifrance and Plug-and-Play have been probably the most energetic traders with 20 offers every, adopted by SOSV (16 offers).
- The most important M&A exit was made by arculus: The German firm within the area of autonomous cellular robots was acquired by Jungheinrich for €102m
To entry the total report, please click on right here.
By Florian Theyermann and Mathias Übler