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German Startups Group

Founders Alexander Koelpin Christoph Gerlinger

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Total investments 56
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 41
Rounds per year 5.60
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 16
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Financial Services
  • Software
  • FinTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Service Partner ONE

Apps
Facility Management
Service Industry
Software
21 Feb 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finiata

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Social Entrepreneurship
Software
17 Jan 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finiata

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Social Entrepreneurship
Software
$4M17 Oct 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Meine Spielzeugkiste

Children
E-Commerce
Toys
03 Jun 2016 Germany, Berlin

Funanga

E-Commerce
Internet
01 Jun 2016 Germany, Berlin

Savedo

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$5M27 Apr 2016 Germany, Berlin

Scalable Capital

Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
$8M06 Apr 2016 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Realbest

Commercial Real Estate
Construction
E-Commerce
Internet
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
27 Feb 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Datapine

Analytics
Big Data
Data Visualization
Software
$3M21 Sep 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Total investments 56
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 5.60
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 16
Group Appearance index 0.59

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Service Partner ONE

Apps
Facility Management
Service Industry
Software
21 Feb 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finiata

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Social Entrepreneurship
Software
17 Jan 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finiata

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Payments
Social Entrepreneurship
Software
$4M17 Oct 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Meine Spielzeugkiste

Children
E-Commerce
Toys
03 Jun 2016 Germany, Berlin

Funanga

E-Commerce
Internet
01 Jun 2016 Germany, Berlin

Savedo

Banking
Financial Services
FinTech
Marketplace
$5M27 Apr 2016 Germany, Berlin

Scalable Capital

Asset Management
Financial Services
FinTech
$8M06 Apr 2016 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Realbest

Commercial Real Estate
Construction
E-Commerce
Internet
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
27 Feb 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Datapine

Analytics
Big Data
Data Visualization
Software
$3M21 Sep 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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