BASF Venture Capital

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Total investments

87

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

57

Rounds per year

3.78

Lead investments

25

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

7

Areas of investment
BiotechnologyArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyAgTechChemicalAgricultureNanotechnology

Summary

In 2001 was created BASF Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Ludwigshafen. The company was established in Europe in Germany. BASF Venture Capital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Besides them, we counted 14 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. This BASF Venture Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 24 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BASF Venture Capital, startups are often financed by DSM Venturing, RockPort Capital, Tate & Lyle Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are DSM Venturing, Prelude Trust, Burrill & Company. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DSM Venturing, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Wellington Partners.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Energy, Chemical. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Plastic Logic Germany, ChemConnect, Catalytic Solutions.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techAgricultureDeep TechCloud/InfrastructureB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
87
Lead investments
25
Exits
7
Rounds per year
3.78
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (23)
  • Manufacturing (19)
  • Renewable Energy (12)
  • Agriculture (12)
  • Electronics (11)
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Investments by region
  • United States (48)
  • Germany (9)
  • Switzerland (5)
  • Israel (4)
  • China (5)
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Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
49M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
12
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
IntelliSense.io 18 Aug 2020 Analytics, Information Technology, Information Services, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Intelligent Systems, Internet of Things, Data Visualization, Mining Seed England, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Segterra, Inc. 08 Sep 2022 Analytics, Fitness, Health Care, Wellness Early Stage Venture 15M United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
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