Total investments

5

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.20

Lead investments

2

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceSoftwareFinanceHealth CareEnterprise SoftwareMedicalPharmaceuticalTherapeutics

Summary

Lacuna appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1996. The main department of described VC is located in the Regensburg. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Medical. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MerLion Pharma, Stokes Bio, Peak8 Partners.

The current fund was established by Werner Engelhardt.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2008. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Lacuna works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Lacuna, startups are often financed by Temasek Holdings, Novartis Venture Fund, JAFCO Asia. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zu00fcrcher Kantonal Bank, Idinvest Partners, EDBI. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tragara, Spartan Mobile, Sofinnova Partners.

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Analytics

Total investments
5
Lead investments
2
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.20
Investments by industry
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Health Care (1)
  • Therapeutics (1)
  • Medical (1)
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Investments by region
  • Singapore (2)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2008

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
18
Group Appearance index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Peak8 Partners 22 Feb 2008 Software Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Boulder, Colorado

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