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GfK

Founders Lola Vega

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.03
Lead investments 1
Exits 3
Key employees 3

Areas of investment

  • Consulting
  • Analytics
  • Software
  • Big Data
  • Media and Information Services (B2B)
Summary

GfK appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1934. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Nuremberg.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 partakers. Despite the GfK, startups are often financed by Sofinnova Partners, Signatures Capital, Safa Rashtchy. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sofinnova Partners, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, Alven Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FSI, Draper Esprit, Alven Capital.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight YouEye, Qosmos. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Machine Learning, Big Data. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

This organization was formed by Lola Vega. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this GfK works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Deductive

Analytics
Consulting
Information Technology
Software
26 Sep 2013 San Rafael, California, United States

Qosmos

Open Source
Real Time
Software
$10M21 Apr 2008 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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Total investments 3
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 0.03
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 1
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Deductive

Analytics
Consulting
Information Technology
Software
26 Sep 2013 San Rafael, California, United States

Qosmos

Open Source
Real Time
Software
$10M21 Apr 2008 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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