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Polar Light Ventures

Founders Elena Buchen Michael Buchen

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 2.50
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • FinTech
  • Marketplace
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
Summary

In 2016 was created Polar Light Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Zug. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

The current fund was established by Elena Buchen, Michael Buchen. The overall number of key employees were 1.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Marketplace. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fetchr, Skin Analytics, Stoyo. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Polar Light Ventures, startups are often financed by Winklevoss capital, Wayra, Simile Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Mountain Partners, about:seed GmbH, Vickers Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Berlin Technologie Holding, BECO Capital, Target Global.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. Opposing the other organizations, this Polar Light Ventures works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Myos

B2B
Big Data
E-Commerce
FinTech
Lending
Machine Learning
Marketplace
$944K09 Mar 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Vermietet.de

Internet
Real Estate
Rental Property
Social Entrepreneurship
01 Dec 2016 Germany, Berlin

Beauty
Marketplace
SaaS
Scheduling
Small and Medium Businesses
$1M01 Oct 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Stoyo

Advertising
Marketing
Social Media
$590K17 Mar 2016 New York, United States

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
01 Dec 2015 Florida, United States

appScatter

Analytics
App Marketing
Apps
B2B
Information Services
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
SaaS
01 Oct 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Fetchr

Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$11M12 Jun 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sensorberg

Internet of Things
Property Development
Property Management
Software
$1M19 Feb 2015 Berlin

SellAnyCar.com

Automotive
E-Commerce
Finance
01 Jan 2015 Dubai

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Total investments 15
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 2.50
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 0
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Myos

B2B
Big Data
E-Commerce
FinTech
Lending
Machine Learning
Marketplace
$944K09 Mar 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Vermietet.de

Internet
Real Estate
Rental Property
Social Entrepreneurship
01 Dec 2016 Germany, Berlin

Beauty
Marketplace
SaaS
Scheduling
Small and Medium Businesses
$1M01 Oct 2016 London, England, United Kingdom

Stoyo

Advertising
Marketing
Social Media
$590K17 Mar 2016 New York, United States

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
01 Dec 2015 Florida, United States

appScatter

Analytics
App Marketing
Apps
B2B
Information Services
Information Technology
Mobile Apps
SaaS
01 Oct 2015 London, England, United Kingdom

Fetchr

Delivery Service
E-Commerce
Information Technology
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$11M12 Jun 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sensorberg

Internet of Things
Property Development
Property Management
Software
$1M19 Feb 2015 Berlin

SellAnyCar.com

Automotive
E-Commerce
Finance
01 Jan 2015 Dubai
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