Accelerace

Type

Accelerator/Incubator

Status

Active

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Total investments

60

Average round size

542K

Portfolio companies

45

Rounds per year

3.75

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSManufacturingElectronicsWirelessElectrical Distribution

Summary

In 2008 was created Accelerace, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Denmark. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Copenhagen.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Biotechnology, Education. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight actimo, ChurchDesk, Conferize. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The current fund was established by Peter Torstensen. The overall number of key employees were 5.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Accelerace, startups are often financed by SEED Capital, CAPNOVA, Syddansk Vu00e6kstforum. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SEED Capital, Nupark Accelerace, CAPNOVA. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SEED Capital, SEB Venture Capital, Nupark Accelerace.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2014. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Accelerace works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
DenmarkEstoniaFinlandIcelandLatvia Show 3 more
Check size
146K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
60
Lead investments
7
Exits
6
Rounds per year
3.75
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Biotechnology (8)
  • Electronics (7)
  • Information Technology (6)
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Investments by region
  • Denmark (44)
  • Australia (3)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • India (2)
  • Latvia (2)
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Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
811K
Group Appearance index
0.43
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Roozz.com 18 Sep 2012 Software, Mobile, Gaming, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Music, Video Games Seed 800K Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
WeedBot 12 May 2023 AgTech Seed 501K Vidzeme, Riga, Latvia

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