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KfW

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Total investments 178
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 135
Rounds per year 2.34
Lead investments 14
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.24
Exits 39
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Medical
  • Medical Device
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CryoTherapeutics

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutic Devices
Therapeutics
$11M02 Apr 2024 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

Vectoflow

Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Test and Measurement
$4M15 Dec 2023 Gilching, Bayern, Germany

Cleverciti

Apps
Parking
Sensor
Transportation
$5M14 Oct 2020 Germany, Bavaria

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$13M06 Aug 2019 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

OMEICOS Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$20M02 Nov 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Veact

Automotive
Business Intelligence
Market Research
Marketing
Software
06 Sep 2018 Germany, Bavaria

Acousia Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$11M14 May 2018 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Hemovent

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M25 Jul 2017 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

BigRep

3D Printing
Advanced Materials
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Product Design
$15M20 Apr 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
News
Productsup Closes $20M Funding Round

– Productsup from Berlin provides an ecommerce data integration solutions that allows brands and retailers to optimize and syndicate their product content to all digital marketing, shopping and business channels, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Walmart.
– The company raised $20m in funding.
– The round was led by Nordwind Capital and venture debt providers Deutsche Handelsbank and KfW with participation from Moritz Zimmermann, co-founder of Hybris and partner at 42Cap, and the co-founders of Contorion, Richard Schwenke and Tobias Tschötsch.

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Total investments 178
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 2.34
Peak activity year 2011
Lead investments 14
Follow on index 0.24
Exits 39
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CryoTherapeutics

Biotechnology
Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutic Devices
Therapeutics
$11M02 Apr 2024 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

Vectoflow

Industrial Engineering
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Test and Measurement
$4M15 Dec 2023 Gilching, Bayern, Germany

Cleverciti

Apps
Parking
Sensor
Transportation
$5M14 Oct 2020 Germany, Bavaria

Biotechnology
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$13M06 Aug 2019 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

OMEICOS Therapeutics

Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$20M02 Nov 2018 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Veact

Automotive
Business Intelligence
Market Research
Marketing
Software
06 Sep 2018 Germany, Bavaria

Acousia Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$11M14 May 2018 Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Hemovent

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$2M25 Jul 2017 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

BigRep

3D Printing
Advanced Materials
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
Product Design
$15M20 Apr 2017 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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