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Fraunhofer Venture

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 1.65
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 2
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Biotechnology
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Threedy

Software
Visual Search
$11M20 Feb 2024 Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany

Cellbox Solutions

Biotechnology
Product Research
$7M07 Mar 2023 Germany, Lower Saxony, Germany

Tool Detective

Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
20 Dec 2022 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Tool Detective

Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
11 May 2022 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

NexWafe

Energy
Industrial Engineering
Solar
$11M04 Feb 2021 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Volterion

Battery
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$200K15 Jan 2017 Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Volterion

Battery
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$200K24 Jan 2016 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Volterion

Battery
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$100K14 Sep 2015 Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

NexWafe

Energy
Industrial Engineering
Solar
13 Jul 2015 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

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Total investments 38
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.65
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.29

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Threedy

Software
Visual Search
$11M20 Feb 2024 Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany

Cellbox Solutions

Biotechnology
Product Research
$7M07 Mar 2023 Germany, Lower Saxony, Germany

Tool Detective

Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
20 Dec 2022 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Tool Detective

Industrial Manufacturing
Machinery Manufacturing
Manufacturing
11 May 2022 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

NexWafe

Energy
Industrial Engineering
Solar
$11M04 Feb 2021 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Volterion

Battery
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$200K15 Jan 2017 Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Volterion

Battery
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$200K24 Jan 2016 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Volterion

Battery
Clean Energy
CleanTech
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
Solar
$100K14 Sep 2015 Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

NexWafe

Energy
Industrial Engineering
Solar
13 Jul 2015 Germany, Baden-Württemberg
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