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German Media Pool

Founders Aljoscha Kaplan Niko Waesche

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 2.46
Lead investments 7
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
  • Internet
  • Marketing
  • Fashion
Summary

In 2011 was created German Media Pool, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Berlin.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this German Media Pool works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from German Media Pool is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the German Media Pool, startups are often financed by Target Global, Mangrove Capital Partners, Felix Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RI Digital Ventures, SevenVentures, Heliad Equity Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Heliad Equity Partners, Venture Stars, Winklevoss capital.

The current fund was established by Aljoscha Kaplan, Niko Waesche. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline About You, Job Today, twago.com Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consulting, Retail. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Startup Insider

Media and Entertainment
31 Jan 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

JUCR

Software
$7M16 Nov 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ENVOY

B2B
Content
Media and Entertainment
Software
$180K15 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Sanity Group

Biotechnology
Cannabis
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$44M15 Jun 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ph.International

Dietary Supplements
Health Care
Nutraceutical
$14M27 May 2021 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Baby
E-Commerce
Internet
Textiles
$2M05 Mar 2020 Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Seniovo

Elder Care
$2M25 Jul 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

LemonSwan

Dating
21 Jan 2019 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Customer Service
E-Commerce
Internet
$9M15 Nov 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Total investments 32
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 2.46
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Startup Insider

Media and Entertainment
31 Jan 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

JUCR

Software
$7M16 Nov 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ENVOY

B2B
Content
Media and Entertainment
Software
$180K15 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Sanity Group

Biotechnology
Cannabis
Life Science
Medical
Medical Device
Pharmaceutical
Wellness
$44M15 Jun 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ph.International

Dietary Supplements
Health Care
Nutraceutical
$14M27 May 2021 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Baby
E-Commerce
Internet
Textiles
$2M05 Mar 2020 Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Seniovo

Elder Care
$2M25 Jul 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

LemonSwan

Dating
21 Jan 2019 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

BOOK A TIGER

Customer Service
E-Commerce
Internet
$9M15 Nov 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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