KfW

Summary

KfW is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1948. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Deutsch. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

The important activity for fund was in 2011. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The average startup value when the investment from KfW is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this KfW performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 10 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Pharmaceutical, Health Care. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zalando, Shelter Afrique, simplesurance.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the KfW, startups are often financed by Bayern Kapital GmbH, Peppermint Venture Partners, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are MIG AG, NRW.BANK, Seed Fond Aachen. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Bayern Kapital GmbH, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, NRW.BANK.