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LEA Partners

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 1.27
Lead investments 8
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 2
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Small and Medium Businesses
Summary

LEA Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Karlsruhe.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the LEA Partners, startups are often financed by TEV | Tengelmann Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wecken & Cie., Vito Ventures, VC Fonds Baden-Wurttemberg.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are B2C, Indoor Positioning. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline understand.ai, sevDesk, INTRANAV For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. This LEA Partners works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Assemblio

$2M28 Feb 2024 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

DYNO

Employment
Human Resources
$1M10 Oct 2023 Offenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

askui

B2B
Information Technology
Software
$5M30 Aug 2023 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Turn2x

Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
$5M30 Jun 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Enabl

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$3M12 Jun 2023 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Daedalus

Artificial Intelligence
Manufacturing
Robotics
$6M01 Feb 2023 Germany, Saxony, Germany

Workist

Artificial Intelligence
$10M20 Sep 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Flowers-Software GmbH

Developer Platform
Information Technology
Software
$3M13 Apr 2022 Baden-baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Workwise

Human Resources
Recruiting
$14M08 Mar 2022 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
News
Quality Match raises $6 million to build better AI datasets

– Quality Match, a Heidelberg, Germany-based quality data annotation provider, today announced that it raised a €5 million ($6 million) seed round from LEA Partners.
– The company says it’ll use the proceeds to expand its team and accelerate product development.
– Training AI and machine learning algorithms requires plenty of annotated data. But data rarely comes with annotations.
– The bulk of the work often falls to human labelers, whose efforts tend to be expensive, imperfect, and slow.
– It’s estimated most enterprises that adopt machine learning spend over 80% of their time on data labeling and management.
– In fact, in a recent survey conducted by startup CloudFlower, data scientists said that they spend 60% of the time just organizing and cleaning data compared with 4% on refining algorithms.

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Total investments 28
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.27
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Assemblio

$2M28 Feb 2024 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

DYNO

Employment
Human Resources
$1M10 Oct 2023 Offenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

askui

B2B
Information Technology
Software
$5M30 Aug 2023 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Turn2x

Natural Resources
Renewable Energy
$5M30 Jun 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Enabl

Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$3M12 Jun 2023 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Daedalus

Artificial Intelligence
Manufacturing
Robotics
$6M01 Feb 2023 Germany, Saxony, Germany

Workist

Artificial Intelligence
$10M20 Sep 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Flowers-Software GmbH

Developer Platform
Information Technology
Software
$3M13 Apr 2022 Baden-baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Workwise

Human Resources
Recruiting
$14M08 Mar 2022 Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
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