Kinnevik AB

Summary

Kinnevik AB is the famous VC, which was founded in 1936. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Stockholm. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Sweden.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Kinnevik AB performs on 6 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. When the investment is from Kinnevik AB the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

The overall number of key employees were 8.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Kinnevik AB, startups are often financed by TEV | Tengelmann Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Summit Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Summit Partners, Access Industries, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Access Industries, Millicom Systems, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Internet. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Rocket Internet, Zalando, Lazada Group Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.