GENIUS Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Schwerin, Germany

Total investments

15

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

0.58

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

1

Areas of investment
LogisticsBiotechnologySoftwareRetailGamingHealth CarePharmaceuticalMedia and EntertainmentPublic TransportationMuseums and Historical Sites

Summary

In 1998 was created GENIUS Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Schwerin. The company was established in Europe in Germany.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the GENIUS Venture Capital, startups are often financed by High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, SeedRocket, Lu00e1nzame Capital SL. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fides Finanz-Invest, KfW, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Toro Ventures, TheVentureCity Growth Accelerator, Stars Innovation.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Apps, Lifestyle. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Microstim, Cytocentrics For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2011. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this GENIUS Venture Capital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistBiotech/Life SciencesClimate techEnergyManufacturing
Stage focus
Series BSeries ASeed
Geo focus
Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Check size
Up to 2M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
15
Lead investments
3
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.58
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Logistics (5)
  • Gaming (4)
  • Museums and Historical Sites (4)
  • Media and Entertainment (4)
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Investments by region
  • China (1)
  • Germany (13)
  • Spain (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Group Appearance index
0.47
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Anlaiye 08 Sep 2016 Mobile Apps, Service Industry Early Stage Venture 37M Shanghai, China
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