Holtzbrinck Digital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Munich, Germany

Total investments

30

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

22

Rounds per year

2.31

Lead investments

6

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

5

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningHealth CareEdTechEducationSearch EngineSEOContent Marketing

Summary

Holtzbrinck Digital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main department of described VC is located in the Mu00fcnchen. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. Holtzbrinck Digital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Publishing, Internet. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Lecturio, pflege.de, iversity

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Holtzbrinck Digital, startups are often financed by TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Neuhaus Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Digital Science, Iris Capital, Neuhaus Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Iris Capital, Neuhaus Partners, Cherry Ventures.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Holtzbrinck Digital works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EdtechMedia/Content
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 38 more
Check size
543K — 16M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 535000000
Fund raised date
2020-10-29

Analytics

Total investments
30
Lead investments
6
Exits
5
Rounds per year
2.31
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Education (12)
  • E-Learning (7)
  • Health Care (6)
  • Software (6)
  • EdTech (5)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (17)
  • United States (7)
  • Netherlands (1)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Switzerland (1)
Peak activity year
2015

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Group Appearance index
0.73
Avg. company exit year
8

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