Fraunhofer Venture

Total investments

38

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

1.65

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.13

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyEnergy StorageSoftwareInformation TechnologyHealth CareManufacturingCleanTechEnergySolarEnergy Efficiency

Summary

Fraunhofer Venture appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2001. The main department of described VC is located in the Munich. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Energy Storage, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight JenaValve Technology, Volterion, Subitec.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Fraunhofer Venture, startups are often financed by High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, Sascha Kuehn. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, VC Fonds Technologie Berlin. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, VI Partners AG, Sunstone Life Science Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Fraunhofer Venture works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2009. The average startup value when the investment from Fraunhofer Venture is 1-5 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
38
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.65
Follow on index
0.13
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (16)
  • Energy (8)
  • Solar (7)
  • Biotechnology (6)
  • Software (4)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (35)
  • India (1)
  • United States (1)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2009

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Group Appearance index
0.29
Avg. company exit year
9

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