DN Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

289

Average round size

19M

Portfolio companies

149

Rounds per year

12.04

Lead investments

38

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

34

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileSaaSAppsEnterprise Software

Summary

DN Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Menlo Park.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Software, Finance. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Auto1 Group, Raisin, SHIFT Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. When the investment is from DN Capital the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this DN Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the DN Capital, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Ribbit Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Avala Capital, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Target Global, Ribbit Capital, Index Ventures.

This organization was formed by Nenad Marovac, Steve Schlenker. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseFintechEcommerceMedia/ContentConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 39 more
Check size
1M — 20M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 350000000
Fund raised date
2021-06-08

Analytics

Total investments
289
Lead investments
38
Exits
34
Rounds per year
12.04
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Software (78)
  • E-Commerce (56)
  • Internet (41)
  • Apps (34)
  • SaaS (33)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (86)
  • United States (68)
  • Spain (13)
  • Austria (5)
  • United Kingdom (61)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
100M
Group Appearance index
0.88
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.17
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Cognigy GmbH 11 Jun 2024 Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Digital Marketing, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Natural Language Processing, Customer Service, Virtual Assistant, Sales Automation Late Stage Venture 100M North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf, Germany
Edurino 02 Mar 2023 E-Learning, EdTech, Children Early Stage Venture 12M Bayern, Munich, Germany

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