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Discovery Ventures

Founders Stefan Jeschonnek

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Total investments 13
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 11
Rounds per year 0.48
Lead investments 0
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Electronics
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Internet
Summary

Discovery Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Vancouver. The venture was found in North America in Canada.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Discovery Ventures, startups are often financed by Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, Sofinnova Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Altos Ventures, Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, Sofinnova Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM Ventures, Partech.

Opposing the other organizations, this Discovery Ventures works on 28 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Luna Information Systems, Valchemy, TimesTen. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Analytics. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GOURMEY

Food and Beverage
Life Science
$56M05 Oct 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

bunch

Financial Services
FinTech
$8M26 Jul 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Unstoppable Finance

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
$5M20 Oct 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jumbotail

Beverages
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Products
Grocery
Internet Retail
Marketplace
Retail
$14M08 Jan 2021 Karnataka

Compa

Financial Services
Payments
01 Dec 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Foodcircle

Retail
Wholesale
12 Aug 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Valchemy

Manufacturing
Software
$8M07 Mar 2005 California, United States

Jaspersoft

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Open Source
Software
Web Development
$10M03 Mar 2003 San Francisco, California, United States

Jaspersoft

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Open Source
Software
Web Development
$5M26 Aug 2002 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 13
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 0.48
Peak activity year 1999
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GOURMEY

Food and Beverage
Life Science
$56M05 Oct 2022 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

bunch

Financial Services
FinTech
$8M26 Jul 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Unstoppable Finance

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
$5M20 Oct 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jumbotail

Beverages
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Food Products
Grocery
Internet Retail
Marketplace
Retail
$14M08 Jan 2021 Karnataka

Compa

Financial Services
Payments
01 Dec 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Foodcircle

Retail
Wholesale
12 Aug 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Valchemy

Manufacturing
Software
$8M07 Mar 2005 California, United States

Jaspersoft

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Open Source
Software
Web Development
$10M03 Mar 2003 San Francisco, California, United States

Jaspersoft

Analytics
Business Intelligence
Open Source
Software
Web Development
$5M26 Aug 2002 San Francisco, California, United States
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