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Innovation Nest

Founders Marek Kapturkiewicz Piotr Wilam

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Total investments 77
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 5.50
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 3
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Internet of Things
  • Advertising
Summary

Innovation Nest is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Kraku00f3w. The venture was found in Europe in Poland.

The current fund was established by Marek Kapturkiewicz, Piotr Wilam. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Innovation Nest, startups are often financed by New Europe Ventures, LLC, Digital Garage, Caixa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Caixa Capital, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Rafau0142 Sonik. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Mansour Salame.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infermedica, Growbots, HCM Deck. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Poland. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Software.

When the investment is from Innovation Nest the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meisterwerk

Small and Medium Businesses
$7M25 Jul 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

AI Clearing

Construction
$14M02 Oct 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Kenjo

Human Resources
Predictive Analytics
Software
$10M17 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Antavo Loyalty Management Platform

Apps
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Software
$11M09 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Autenti

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$10M13 Sep 2022 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Meisterwerk

Small and Medium Businesses
$2M02 May 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Enso.org

Computer
Software
$16M19 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Welii

SaaS
Software
$615K18 Jan 2022 -

Infraspeak

Communication Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$6M06 Dec 2021 Portugal, Portugal
News
Cardiomatics bags $3.2M for its ECG-reading AI

– Cardiomatics, a Poland-based health tech AI startup, raised $3.2m seed funding.
– The round was led by Central and Eastern European VC Kaya, with Nina Capital, Nova Capital and Innovation Nest also participating.
– The seed raise also includes a $1m non-equity grant from the Polish National Centre of Research and Development.
– The startup sells a cloud tool to speed up diagnosis and drive efficiency for cardiologists, clinicians and other healthcare professionals to interpret ECGs — automating the detection and analysis of some 20 heart abnormalities and disorders with the software generating reports on scans in minutes, faster than a trained human specialist would be able to work.

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Total investments 77
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 5.50
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Meisterwerk

Small and Medium Businesses
$7M25 Jul 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

AI Clearing

Construction
$14M02 Oct 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Kenjo

Human Resources
Predictive Analytics
Software
$10M17 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Antavo Loyalty Management Platform

Apps
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Software
$11M09 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Autenti

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$10M13 Sep 2022 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Meisterwerk

Small and Medium Businesses
$2M02 May 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Enso.org

Computer
Software
$16M19 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Welii

SaaS
Software
$615K18 Jan 2022 -

Infraspeak

Communication Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$6M06 Dec 2021 Portugal, Portugal
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