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Acton Capital Partners

Founders Christoph Braun Frank Seehaus Jan-Gisbert Schultze Paul-Bernhard Kallen

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Total investments 119
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 78
Rounds per year 4.76
Lead investments 24
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 34
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Retail
  • Fashion
  • Shopping
Summary

In 1999 was created Acton Capital Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Mu00fcnchen.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Etsy, Cluno, INDOCHINO. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Social Media, Fashion.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Acton Capital Partners, startups are often financed by Atlantic Labs, Union Square Ventures, Point Nine Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Atlantic Labs, DN Capital, Index Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DN Capital, MCI Capital SA, Index Ventures.

The current fund was established by Christoph Braun, Frank Seehaus, Jan-Gisbert Schultze, Paul-Bernhard Kallen. The overall number of key employees were 12.

The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 10 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. When the investment is from Acton Capital Partners the average startup value is 50-100 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Acton Capital Partners performs on 1 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ECO Group

Retail
Sustainability
$8M27 Jul 2023 Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany

Henchman

Artificial Intelligence
Legal Tech
$7M02 Mar 2023 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Klaus

Customer Service
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$12M29 Sep 2022 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

Seatti

Apps
Collaboration
Office Administration
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
Virtual Workforce
$3M04 Jul 2022 München, Bayern, Germany

Laserhub

Industrial
Internet
Precious Metals
Small and Medium Businesses
14 Jun 2022 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Convelio

Logistics
$35M07 Mar 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

SoSafe Cyber Security Awareness

SaaS
$73M13 Jan 2022 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

MedKitDoc

Health Care
Video
Wellness
$8M29 Dec 2021 Lichtenfels, Hesse, Germany

Othoz

$11M14 Dec 2021 -
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Audio Platform For Kids Yoto Raises $17 Million

– Yoto is an audio platform for kids.
– The company raised $17m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Acton Capital with participation from JamJar Investments, Global Founders Capital, Emerge Education, and MPL Ventures.
– Yoto Player is inspired by Montessori principles and is designed to safely give children full control over their listening with access to entertaining audio.

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Total investments 119
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 4.76
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 34
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ECO Group

Retail
Sustainability
$8M27 Jul 2023 Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany

Henchman

Artificial Intelligence
Legal Tech
$7M02 Mar 2023 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Klaus

Customer Service
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$12M29 Sep 2022 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia

Seatti

Apps
Collaboration
Office Administration
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
Virtual Workforce
$3M04 Jul 2022 München, Bayern, Germany

Laserhub

Industrial
Internet
Precious Metals
Small and Medium Businesses
14 Jun 2022 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Convelio

Logistics
$35M07 Mar 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

SoSafe Cyber Security Awareness

SaaS
$73M13 Jan 2022 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

MedKitDoc

Health Care
Video
Wellness
$8M29 Dec 2021 Lichtenfels, Hesse, Germany

Othoz

$11M14 Dec 2021 -
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