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Axel Springer

Founders Axel Springer

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 45
Rounds per year 0.65
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 9
Key employees 9

Areas of investment

  • Real Estate
  • News
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • SaaS
Summary

Axel Springer appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1946. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Berlin. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

Besides them, we counted 9 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Axel Springer performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2015. When the investment is from Axel Springer the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Lamudi, Bonial.com. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are News, Travel. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Axel Springer, startups are often financed by Lerer Hippeau, Axel Springer Digital Ventures, Bayern Kapital GmbH. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Lerer Hippeau, Ringier, MairDumont Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Winklevoss capital, The Yard Ventures, TPG.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Smalt

Skill Assessment
Training
$4M16 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bluedot

Automotive
CleanTech
Developer Tools
Energy Management
Location Based Services
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
SaaS
Sharing Economy
Transportation
$2M25 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Justhome

Finance
Financial Services
$3M31 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Cappi

FinTech
17 May 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Inkitt

Analytics
Application Software
Content
Other Media
Publishing
$59M04 Oct 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fyppit

E-Commerce
Last Mile Transportation
Marketplace
Same Day Delivery
$59K01 Apr 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

lifelive.io

Online Portals
Social Media
Software
Video Conferencing
Video Streaming
$59K01 Feb 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

FRAMEN GmbH

Advertising
Computer Vision
Marketing
SaaS
02 Jan 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

RealFriend

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
$4M01 Mar 2020 Tel Aviv District
News
Nested, the UK-based ‘modern’ estate agent, raises additional £5M to improve the home-selling experience

– Nested, a proptech startup, raised £5m funding.
– The round was led by Axel Springer and joined by previous investors Balderton Capital and Northzone.
– The company plans to launch an additional 30 areas over the next 18 months, as well as moving outside London for the first time.

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Total investments 51
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 0.65
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Smalt

Skill Assessment
Training
$4M16 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bluedot

Automotive
CleanTech
Developer Tools
Energy Management
Location Based Services
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
Mobile Payments
SaaS
Sharing Economy
Transportation
$2M25 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Justhome

Finance
Financial Services
$3M31 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Cappi

FinTech
17 May 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Inkitt

Analytics
Application Software
Content
Other Media
Publishing
$59M04 Oct 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fyppit

E-Commerce
Last Mile Transportation
Marketplace
Same Day Delivery
$59K01 Apr 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

lifelive.io

Online Portals
Social Media
Software
Video Conferencing
Video Streaming
$59K01 Feb 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

FRAMEN GmbH

Advertising
Computer Vision
Marketing
SaaS
02 Jan 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

RealFriend

Artificial Intelligence
Real Estate
$4M01 Mar 2020 Tel Aviv District
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