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KFW DEG

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Total investments 64
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$59M
Portfolio companies 58
Rounds per year 1.03
Lead investments 16
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 8
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Finance
  • FinTech
  • Manufacturing
  • Energy
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Copia Global

Consumer Goods
Delivery
E-Commerce
Sales
$20M13 Dec 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Lupiya

Financial Services
Marketplace
$8M18 Sep 2023 Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia

liwwa

Crowdfunding
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M09 Sep 2022 Amman, Amman, Jordan

Arth

Finance
Lending
Micro Lending
$3M07 Jun 2022 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Massive Bio

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Genetics
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$17M02 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Copia Global

Consumer Goods
Delivery
E-Commerce
Sales
$50M18 Jan 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

DrugStoc

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$4M15 Nov 2021 Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria

Turnkey Lender

B2B
Business/Productivity Software
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Financial Software
FinTech
Lending
SaaS
Software
$6M20 Apr 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Sicepat Express

Courier Service
Delivery
E-Commerce
$170M05 Mar 2021 Jakarta Raya

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Total investments 64
Average round size 59M
Rounds per year 1.03
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.58

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Copia Global

Consumer Goods
Delivery
E-Commerce
Sales
$20M13 Dec 2023 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Lupiya

Financial Services
Marketplace
$8M18 Sep 2023 Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia

liwwa

Crowdfunding
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$4M09 Sep 2022 Amman, Amman, Jordan

Arth

Finance
Lending
Micro Lending
$3M07 Jun 2022 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Massive Bio

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Genetics
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$17M02 Jun 2022 New York, New York, United States

Copia Global

Consumer Goods
Delivery
E-Commerce
Sales
$50M18 Jan 2022 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

DrugStoc

Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$4M15 Nov 2021 Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria

Turnkey Lender

B2B
Business/Productivity Software
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Financial Software
FinTech
Lending
SaaS
Software
$6M20 Apr 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Sicepat Express

Courier Service
Delivery
E-Commerce
$170M05 Mar 2021 Jakarta Raya
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