Demeter Partners

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

91

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

64

Rounds per year

5.35

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.30

Exits

10

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInformation TechnologyFood and BeverageManufacturingElectronicsEnergyRenewable EnergyIndustrialSolarAgriculture

Summary

In 2007 was created Demeter Partners, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in France. The main department of described VC is located in the Paris.

The current fund was established by Sophie Paturle. We also calculated 18 valuable employees in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Renewable Energy, Industrial. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ynsect, iSTAR Medical, Aledia.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Demeter Partners, startups are often financed by Emertec Gestion, New Enterprise Associates, NGEN Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Emertec Gestion, Bpifrance, Sofinnova Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bpifrance, Demeter, Paca Investissement.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Demeter Partners works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techEnergyCloud/InfrastructureManufacturingAgriculture
Stage focus
GeneralistPre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B Show 1 more
Check size
1M — 32M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
91
Lead investments
20
Exits
10
Rounds per year
5.35
Follow on index
0.30
Investments by industry
  • Energy (22)
  • Manufacturing (17)
  • Renewable Energy (15)
  • Information Technology (13)
  • Electronics (11)
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Investments by region
  • France (78)
  • Germany (6)
  • United States (2)
  • Netherlands (2)
  • Finland (1)
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Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
14
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.66
Avg. company exit year
18
Avg. multiplicator
5.42
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Envelio 29 May 2018 Software, Analytics, Information Technology, Information Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Clean Energy Seed 1M North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne, Germany
watttron 27 Mar 2024 Computer, Electronics, Innovation Management Early Stage Venture 14M Saxony, Germany, Germany

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