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Total investments 18
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.38
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 5
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Marketing
  • Retail
  • Software
  • Wellness
Summary

K - Invest is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Pforzheim. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. K - Invest appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Grover, shipcloud.io, PIPPA&JEAN. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Retail.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the K - Invest, startups are often financed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, main incubator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, Rocket Internet. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Varengold Bank, Redstone.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this K - Invest works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies.

The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Grover

Consumer Electronics
PaaS
Rental
Sharing Economy
Subscription Service
$9M10 May 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stilnest

E-Commerce
Fashion
Jewelry
08 Aug 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

shipcloud.io

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$2M01 Jul 2016 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

PIPPA&JEAN

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
$4M22 Oct 2015 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Lavogi

Furniture
13 Apr 2015 Germany, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Pflegebox

E-Commerce
Health Care
Nursing and Residential Care
Retail
Wellness
05 Feb 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stilnest

E-Commerce
Fashion
Jewelry
$1M21 Aug 2014 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pflegebox

E-Commerce
Health Care
Nursing and Residential Care
Retail
Wellness
03 Jun 2014 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

shipcloud.io

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$590K01 Jan 2014 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

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Total investments 18
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.38
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.78

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Grover

Consumer Electronics
PaaS
Rental
Sharing Economy
Subscription Service
$9M10 May 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stilnest

E-Commerce
Fashion
Jewelry
08 Aug 2016 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

shipcloud.io

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$2M01 Jul 2016 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

PIPPA&JEAN

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
$4M22 Oct 2015 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Lavogi

Furniture
13 Apr 2015 Germany, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Pflegebox

E-Commerce
Health Care
Nursing and Residential Care
Retail
Wellness
05 Feb 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stilnest

E-Commerce
Fashion
Jewelry
$1M21 Aug 2014 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pflegebox

E-Commerce
Health Care
Nursing and Residential Care
Retail
Wellness
03 Jun 2014 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

shipcloud.io

E-Commerce
Enterprise Software
Logistics
SaaS
Shipping
Software
$590K01 Jan 2014 Germany, Baden-Württemberg
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