KFW DEG

Total investments

67

Average round size

59M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

1.08

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

8

Areas of investment
E-CommerceFinancial ServicesFinTechFinanceManufacturingBankingEnergyRenewable EnergySolarAgriculture

Summary

In 1962 was created KFW DEG, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cologne. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. KFW DEG appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

Comparing to the other companies, this KFW DEG performs on 22 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the KFW DEG, startups are often financed by Helion Venture Partners, Gaja Capital, Foundation Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are FMO, Standard Bank, Seed Fond Aachen. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Verod Capital Management, TVS Capital Funds, TRINE.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Suryoday Small Finance Bank, Beloxxi, Helios Towers DRC Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Solar, GreenTech. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
67
Lead investments
17
Exits
8
Rounds per year
1.08
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (22)
  • Finance (10)
  • FinTech (10)
  • Manufacturing (9)
  • Energy (8)
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Investments by region
  • Nigeria (4)
  • India (14)
  • Indonesia (4)
  • Togo (1)
  • United Arab Emirates (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
50M
Group Appearance index
0.58
Avg. company exit year
25
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Azure Power 22 Nov 2011 Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Late Stage Venture 13M Delhi, New Delhi, India
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