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Born2Grow

Founders Gunter Steffen

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 2.60
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Medical Device
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Unchained Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$6M29 Nov 2023 Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

SpinDrive

CleanTech
Electronics
$4M08 Nov 2023 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland

Semorai

Artificial Intelligence
Service Industry
Software
$236K09 May 2023 Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

traplinked

$2M22 Feb 2023 Bayern, Bavaria, Germany

Doinstruct

Consulting
E-Learning
Software
09 Aug 2022 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany

Mila

Application Software
Collaborative Consumption
Crowdsourcing
EdTech
Health Care
Information Services (B2C)
Location Based Services
Mobile
Social/Platform Software
Software
$2M07 Jun 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fyrfeed

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$2M17 May 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Unchained Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$2M27 Jan 2022 Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

MetisMotion

Computer
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$3M19 Jan 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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Total investments 26
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 2.60
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Unchained Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$6M29 Nov 2023 Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

SpinDrive

CleanTech
Electronics
$4M08 Nov 2023 Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland

Semorai

Artificial Intelligence
Service Industry
Software
$236K09 May 2023 Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

traplinked

$2M22 Feb 2023 Bayern, Bavaria, Germany

Doinstruct

Consulting
E-Learning
Software
09 Aug 2022 Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany

Mila

Application Software
Collaborative Consumption
Crowdsourcing
EdTech
Health Care
Information Services (B2C)
Location Based Services
Mobile
Social/Platform Software
Software
$2M07 Jun 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fyrfeed

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Marketing
Marketing Automation
Software
$2M17 May 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Unchained Robotics

Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$2M27 Jan 2022 Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

MetisMotion

Computer
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Manufacturing
$3M19 Jan 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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