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Holtzbrinck Digital

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Total investments 30
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 22
Rounds per year 2.31
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.27
Exits 5
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • E-Learning
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • EdTech
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Likeminded

Health Care
$6M30 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

DeSci Labs

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
01 Mar 2023 Wollerau, Schwyz, Switzerland

AMBOSS

E-Learning
Education
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
mHealth
Universities
$35M10 Jul 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lecturio

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$2M01 Apr 2017 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

E-Learning
Education
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
mHealth
Universities
30 Dec 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

pflege.de

Elder Care
Health Care
Medical
Online Portals
13 Jul 2015 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Symplectic

Higher Education
Software
30 Jun 2015 England

Strateos

Biotechnology
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
Software Engineering
$8M19 Feb 2015 California, United States

Lecturio

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$4M30 Jan 2015 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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Total investments 30
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 2.31
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.27
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Likeminded

Health Care
$6M30 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

DeSci Labs

Information Services
Information Technology
Software
01 Mar 2023 Wollerau, Schwyz, Switzerland

AMBOSS

E-Learning
Education
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
mHealth
Universities
$35M10 Jul 2019 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lecturio

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$2M01 Apr 2017 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

E-Learning
Education
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
mHealth
Universities
30 Dec 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

pflege.de

Elder Care
Health Care
Medical
Online Portals
13 Jul 2015 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Symplectic

Higher Education
Software
30 Jun 2015 England

Strateos

Biotechnology
Industrial Automation
Information Technology
Robotics
Software
Software Engineering
$8M19 Feb 2015 California, United States

Lecturio

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
$4M30 Jan 2015 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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