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Proterra Inc

811 employees

Proterra develops battery-electric buses that help eliminate fossil fuel dependency and reduce costs.

Investor insights

Sectors invested in

Electric Vehicle1
Automotive1
Logistics1
Last Mile Transportation1

Funding rounds participated in

$44M sweet spot round size

Most of their 1 investments are in rounds between $44M and $44M

Basic info

Industry

truck transportation

Sectors

Vehicles for Public Transportation
Composites
Automotive manufacturing
Heavy-duty electric vehicles
Battery Electric Buses
Electric City Buses
Clean Technology
Batteries for electric vehicles
Automotive
Public Transit
Battery manufacturing
Energy Storage
Electric shuttles for airports
Battery
Manufacturing
Bus manufacturing
Electric campus shuttles for universities
Electric vehicle charging stations
Vehicles manufactured in the USA
Electric drive trains
Commercial Electric Vehicles
Cleantech
Heavy-duty vehicle manufacturing
GSA-approved vehicles for Federal government
Electric charging systems

Date founded

2004

Investments made

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Volta Trucks raised $44M on September 16, 2021

Investors: Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström Holding AB and Proterra Inc

Funding rounds raised

Total raised

$415M

from 28 investors over 28 rounds

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Proterra Inc raised $415M on June 15, 2021

Investors: 40 North Ventures and G2 Venture Partners

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Proterra Inc raised $200M on October 15, 2020

Investors: Broadscale Group, Cowen Inc. and Generation Investment Management

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Proterra Inc raised undisclosed on July 30, 2020

Investors: 40 North Ventures

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Proterra Inc raised $87M on October 1, 2019

Investors: Tao Capital Partners

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Proterra Inc raised undisclosed on February 1, 2019

Investors: Elemental Excelerator

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Proterra Inc raised $155M on September 19, 2018

Investors: GM Ventures, VentureSouth, Tao Capital Partners and G2 Venture Partners

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Proterra Inc raised $55M on June 13, 2017

Investors: Generation Investment Management, BMW i Ventures, Traverse Venture Partners, VentureSouth and Upstate Carolina Angel Network

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Proterra Inc raised undisclosed on January 3, 2017

Investors: GM Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Upstate Carolina Angel Network, 88 Green Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, VentureSouth, Tao Capital Partners and Edison Energy, LLC

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Proterra Inc raised $55M on June 30, 2015

Investors: Ulu Ventures and Hercules Capital, Inc.

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Proterra Inc raised $25M on June 30, 2015

Investors: Hercules Capital, Inc.

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