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Kinnevik AB

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Total investments 151
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$93M
Portfolio companies 80
Rounds per year 1.72
Lead investments 34
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.47
Exits 24
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Health Care
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Habyt

Communities
Coworking
Health Care
Lifestyle
Property Management
Real Estate
Smart Building
$47M04 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Charm Industrial

Agriculture
CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
$100M06 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Enveda Biosciences

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$51M20 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Agreena

Agriculture
AgTech
GreenTech
$54M30 Mar 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Mews

Enterprise Software
Hospitality
Hotel
Information Technology
Property Management
SaaS
Software
Travel
$185M15 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

H2 Green Steel

Manufacturing
Mining
Precious Metals
$82M19 Oct 2022 -

Gordian Software

Air Transportation
E-Commerce
Reservations
Software
Travel
$25M19 Jul 2022 Bellevue, Washington, United States

YouScan

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Computer Vision
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
$2M14 Jul 2022 Limassol, Cyprus

SafetyWing

Apps
Health Insurance
Insurance
InsurTech
$35M21 Apr 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States
News
Spring Health Scores $190M Series C Round

– Spring Health, the most comprehensive global mental health solution for employers and health plans, has secured $190m in Series C funding.
– Top healthcare investor Kinnevik led the round and was joined by new investor The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian Life), along with existing investors Tiger Global, Northzone, RRE Ventures, Rethink Impact, Work-Bench, William K Warren Foundation, SemperVirens, Able Partners, and True Capital Ventures.
– The company’s total investment to date is $300m, bringing the company’s current valuation to $2bn on the heels of approximately 6x revenue growth over the past year.

Superb Raises €12M in Series A Funding

– Superb is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based Guest Experience Management platform for restaurants.
– The company raised €12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Kinnevik, which was joined by Knight Capital and returning investor Seed Capital.
– The new investment will be used to expand internationally and roll out its new Guest Experience Management platform.

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Total investments 151
Average round size 93M
Rounds per year 1.72
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 34
Follow on index 0.47
Exits 24
Group Appearance index 0.87

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Habyt

Communities
Coworking
Health Care
Lifestyle
Property Management
Real Estate
Smart Building
$47M04 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Charm Industrial

Agriculture
CleanTech
Energy
Manufacturing
$100M06 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Enveda Biosciences

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
$51M20 Apr 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Agreena

Agriculture
AgTech
GreenTech
$54M30 Mar 2023 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Mews

Enterprise Software
Hospitality
Hotel
Information Technology
Property Management
SaaS
Software
Travel
$185M15 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

H2 Green Steel

Manufacturing
Mining
Precious Metals
$82M19 Oct 2022 -

Gordian Software

Air Transportation
E-Commerce
Reservations
Software
Travel
$25M19 Jul 2022 Bellevue, Washington, United States

YouScan

Artificial Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Computer Vision
Image Recognition
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
SaaS
Social Media
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
$2M14 Jul 2022 Limassol, Cyprus

SafetyWing

Apps
Health Insurance
Insurance
InsurTech
$35M21 Apr 2022 Palo Alto, California, United States
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