Born2Grow

Type

Venture Capital

Location

Heilbronn, Germany

Total investments

26

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

2.60

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.15

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareWellnessManufacturingMedical DeviceMedicalComputerConsumer Electronics

Summary

Born2Grow appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Heilbronn. The company was established in Europe in Germany.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Medical Device, Manufacturing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight simplesurance, Datapine, Itembase. 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 Gunter Steffen.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Born2Grow performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2014.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Born2Grow, startups are often financed by Rheingau Founders, German Startups Group, Mountain Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, Rheingau Founders, Rouven Dresselhaus. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rheingau Founders, Vito Ventures, Target Global.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
IoTAI/Big DataBiotech/Life SciencesManufacturing
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
GermanyIsrael
Check size
544K — 4M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
26
Lead investments
3
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.60
Follow on index
0.15
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Manufacturing (5)
  • Medical Device (4)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (23)
  • Finland (2)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
5

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Medlanes 31 Jul 2014 Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Personal Health, Home Health Care, mHealth Seed Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Unchained Robotics 29 Nov 2023 Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Industrial Automation Seed 6M Nordrhein-Westfalen, Paderborn, Germany

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