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Chemicals funding activity
385 disclosed rounds across 257 companies in the last three years. Below: how they split by stage, which investors appear most often, and where the totals come from.
Peak 43 rounds in a quarter. Axis starts at zero.
The last three years
Computed from disclosed rounds. Figures update when the data does.
- 0
- Rounds
- 0
- Companies
- 0
- Rounds with an amount
- $80B
- Disclosed total
- $20M
- Median round
Where the money enters
Stage distribution over the same three years. A sector weighted to Pre-Seed and Seed is being formed; one weighted to later rounds is consolidating.
- Late Stage (Series C+)
- 15742%
- Seed
- 9625%
- Series A
- 7921%
- Pre-Seed
- 257%
- Series B
- 205%
Investors appearing most often
Ranked by number of rounds participated in, not by capital deployed — an accelerator writing 180 small cheques ranks above a fund writing four large ones, which is the right ranking when the question is who to approach.
- US Department of Energy7 rounds
- Addor Capital5 rounds
- International Finance Corporation5 rounds
- 8VC3 rounds
- European Investment Bank3 rounds
- U.S. Department of Agriculture3 rounds
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation2 rounds
- Al-Rajhi Bank2 rounds
Largest disclosed raisers
By disclosed amount across the period. Companies whose rounds carried no public amount cannot appear here however large the raise was.
- Aramco Oil Pipelines$21B
- Orlen$6B
- Ras Laffan Petrochemicals$4B
- Celanese$4B
- LyondellBasell$3B
- OCP Group$3B
- Petroperu$2B
- TA’ZIZ Methanol Company$2B
How to read these numbers
A company usually carries several sector tags, so its rounds count towards each. Sector totals therefore sum to more than the total number of rounds, and two sectors here can describe the same round.
Only rounds with a publicly disclosed amount contribute to totals and medians. Roughly a quarter of rounds carry no amount, and those are counted in the round count but never modelled into a figure.
A sector appears only with at least 100 rounds in the last three years. Below that the quarterly shape is noise, and a chart of noise is worse than no chart.
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Work the underlying rounds, not the summary
This page is a fixed slice. In the product the same rounds are filterable by stage, geography and investor activity, and every investor here opens to their full participation history.