German Startups Group

Total investments

56

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

41

Rounds per year

5.60

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

16

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceSaaSAppsMarketplaceAdvertising

Summary

German Startups Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Berlin. The company was established in Europe in Germany.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the German Startups Group, startups are often financed by Mountain Partners, Kite Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Rheingau Founders, Point Nine Capital, Ventech. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rheingau Founders, Mountain Partners, Target Global.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This German Startups Group works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2014. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from German Startups Group is 1-5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

This organization was formed by Alexander Koelpin, Christoph Gerlinger. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Delivery Hero, simplesurance, Wunder Mobility. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany. 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 a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Internet.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
56
Lead investments
6
Exits
16
Rounds per year
5.60
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (22)
  • Internet (18)
  • Financial Services (12)
  • Software (12)
  • FinTech (11)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (52)
  • United States (3)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2014
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
115M
Group Appearance index
0.59
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
2.27
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Datapine 21 Sep 2015 Software, Analytics, Big Data, Data Visualization Early Stage Venture 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Medwing 01 Oct 2017 Human Resources, Recruiting, Health Care Seed 0 Berlin, Germany
Realbest 27 Feb 2016 Real Estate, E-Commerce, Internet, Construction, Real Estate Investment, Commercial Real Estate Late Stage Venture Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Simple Mills 11 Jul 2014 Food and Beverage, Food Processing Seed 1M United States, Illinois, Chicago

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