Axel Springer Digital Ventures

Summary

Axel Springer Digital Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Berlin.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Axel Springer Digital Ventures is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Axel Springer Digital Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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 needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Real Estate, News. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Airbnb, Magic Leap, dott.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Axel Springer Digital Ventures, startups are often financed by Rolf Christof Dienst, RRE Ventures, MairDumont Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MairDumont, FJ Labs, DN Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Axel Springer, Bayern Kapital GmbH, aws Gru00fcnderfonds (aws Founders Fund).

The current fund was established by Anton Waitz, Uli Schmitz. The overall number of key employees were 2.