Germin8 Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

22

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

3.14

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.59

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningInternet of ThingsAgTechAgricultureFarming

Summary

Germin8 Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2017. The main department of described VC is located in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The current fund was established by Michael Lavin.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Farming, Information Technology. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Israel. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight FieldIn, CropX.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Germin8 Ventures, startups are often financed by Terra Venture Partners, TerraLab Ventures, Mindset Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Terra Venture Partners, OurCrowd, Innovation Endeavors. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Terra Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AgricultureFoodtech
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 25000000
Fund raised date
2018-03-01

Analytics

Total investments
22
Lead investments
1
Rounds per year
3.14
Follow on index
0.59
Investments by industry
  • Agriculture (18)
  • AgTech (16)
  • Farming (11)
  • Software (11)
  • Biotechnology (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • Israel (6)
  • Australia (2)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
59M
Group Appearance index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bushel 20 Apr 2021 Software, AgTech, Agriculture, Farming Early Stage Venture 47M United States, North Dakota, Fargo
CropX 22 Jun 2015 Analytics, Robotics, Agriculture, Farming Early Stage Venture 9M North District, Israel, Israel

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