Hardware.co

Total investments

71

Average round size

34K

Portfolio companies

69

Rounds per year

7.10

Follow on index

0.03

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveLogisticsInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyRoboticsManufacturingHardwareConsumer ElectronicsInternet of Things

Summary

Hardware.co is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Berlin. The company was established in Europe in Germany.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Hardware.co performs on 26 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2015. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Manufacturing, Logistics. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BabyWatch, Senic, Neuron Soundware. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

This organization was formed by Jeff Katz, Maximilian von der Ahe, Yatan Blumenthal, Yatan Yatan Blumenthal.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Hardware.co, startups are often financed by SOSV, HAX, Eleven. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Brinc, TechFounders, Microsoft Accelerator Berlin. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Eleven, Techstars, Target Partners.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
71
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
7.10
Follow on index
0.03
Investments by industry
  • Software (21)
  • Information Technology (15)
  • Internet of Things (13)
  • Hardware (11)
  • Automotive (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • Germany (30)
  • Spain (2)
  • Poland (1)
  • Bulgaria (4)
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Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2M
Group Appearance index
0.11
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

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