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Smac Partners

Founders Dietrich Ulmer Ingo Potthof Oliver Kolbe

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 1.24
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 15
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Smac Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2001. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Unterhaching. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Actelis Networks, Exit Games, Dblur Technologies Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Semiconductor, Information Technology. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Opposing the other organizations, this Smac Partners works on 28 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2008. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Smac Partners, startups are often financed by Apax Partners, The Carlyle Group, StageOne Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Intel Capital, Siemens Mobile Acceleration, Next47. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Intel Capital, Oak Investment Partners, Menlo Ventures.

The fund was created by Dietrich Ulmer, Ingo Potthof, Oliver Kolbe. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oversi Networks

Content
Enterprise Software
Hardware
$4M18 Oct 2010 Israel, North District, Israel

Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Online Games
Virtual Reality
$4M01 Mar 2007 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Dblur Technologies

Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$6M25 Apr 2006 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Realeyes 3D

Mobile
$9M05 Sep 2005 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

NordNav Technologies

Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
GPS
Software
09 Jun 2005 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Razz

Audio
Digital Entertainment
Music
$3M26 Jan 2005 San Francisco, California, United States

Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Online Games
Virtual Reality
16 Mar 2004 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

SVOX

Application Software
Automotive
Communication Software
Information Technology
Mobile
Other Software
09 Nov 2003 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Rock Mobile

Audio
Media and Entertainment
Music
16 Jun 2003 Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province, China

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Total investments 26
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.24
Peak activity year 2010
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Oversi Networks

Content
Enterprise Software
Hardware
$4M18 Oct 2010 Israel, North District, Israel

Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Online Games
Virtual Reality
$4M01 Mar 2007 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Dblur Technologies

Health Care
Information Technology
Software
$6M25 Apr 2006 Israel, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Realeyes 3D

Mobile
$9M05 Sep 2005 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

NordNav Technologies

Developer Platform
Enterprise Software
GPS
Software
09 Jun 2005 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Razz

Audio
Digital Entertainment
Music
$3M26 Jan 2005 San Francisco, California, United States

Augmented Reality
Digital Entertainment
Online Games
Virtual Reality
16 Mar 2004 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

SVOX

Application Software
Automotive
Communication Software
Information Technology
Mobile
Other Software
09 Nov 2003 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Rock Mobile

Audio
Media and Entertainment
Music
16 Jun 2003 Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province, China
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