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Grazia Equity

Founders Alec Rauschenbusch

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Total investments 70
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 2.80
Lead investments 12
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 15
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Biotechnology
  • Retail
  • Health Care
Summary

Grazia Equity is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Stuttgart.

This organization was formed by Alec Rauschenbusch. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this Grazia Equity performs on 1 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Grazia Equity the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

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 Quantenna Communications, Delivery Agent, Carisma Therapeutics. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Therapeutics, Enterprise Software. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Grazia Equity, startups are often financed by Wellington Partners, Venrock, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venrock, Sigma Partners, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Venrock, Sequoia Capital, Wellington Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VYTAL

$10M14 Mar 2022 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hypatos

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Software
11 Jan 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ZAGENO

Biotechnology
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
Retail
$60M16 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Legendairy Foods

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$49M13 Sep 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

gitti

Beauty
Consumer Goods
$3M04 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hypatos

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Software
$11M03 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

GYANT

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Personal Health
$13M15 Jul 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Legendairy Foods

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$4M19 Dec 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Inspekto

$15M16 Oct 2019 Tel Aviv District

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Total investments 70
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 2.80
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

VYTAL

$10M14 Mar 2022 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hypatos

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Software
11 Jan 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ZAGENO

Biotechnology
E-Commerce
Internet
Marketplace
Retail
$60M16 Nov 2021 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Legendairy Foods

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$49M13 Sep 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

gitti

Beauty
Consumer Goods
$3M04 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hypatos

Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Software
$11M03 Sep 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

GYANT

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Personal Health
$13M15 Jul 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Legendairy Foods

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
$4M19 Dec 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Inspekto

$15M16 Oct 2019 Tel Aviv District
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