HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

Total investments

449

Average round size

21M

Portfolio companies

224

Rounds per year

18.71

Lead investments

86

Follow on index

0.50

Exits

75

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSFashion

Summary

HV Holtzbrinck Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The main department of described VC is located in the Munich. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Shopping, Internet. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Groupon, Rocket Internet, Zalando.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, startups are often financed by Picus Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Speedinvest. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are e.ventures, Project A, Picus Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, RTP Global, H14.

The average startup value when the investment from HV Holtzbrinck Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. This HV Holtzbrinck Ventures works on 3 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

We also calculated 9 valuable employees in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
449
Lead investments
86
Exits
75
Rounds per year
18.71
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (102)
  • Internet (83)
  • Software (61)
  • FinTech (47)
  • Financial Services (46)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (339)
  • United States (27)
  • Brazil (11)
  • United Kingdom (25)
  • Austria (2)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
12
Number of Decacorns
13
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
294M
Group Appearance index
0.85
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
6.48
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Bitlight Labs 02 Feb 2024 Information Technology, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Seed
Exporo 19 Jan 2021 Real Estate, Internet, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Real Estate Investment Late Stage Venture 18M Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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