Total investments

6

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.33

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.17

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceMarketplaceEnergyRenewable EnergyChemicalGreenTechFuelMiningFossil Fuels

Summary

LANXESS is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2004. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Cologne. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the LANXESS, startups are often financed by Khosla Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Sirius Seedfonds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Virgin Green Fund, Total Ventures, OUP (Osage University Partners). In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Xeraya Capital, Virgin Green Fund, TriplePoint Capital.

The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2013. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The important activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. This LANXESS works on 11 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Chemical, Renewable Energy. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight evocatal, BioAmber. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
3
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.33
Follow on index
0.17
Investments by industry
  • Chemical (3)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Fuel (2)
  • Renewable Energy (2)
  • Fossil Fuels (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (3)
  • Germany (2)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2012

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
2
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
evocatal 24 Jun 2013 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Chemical Early Stage Venture 4M Germany, Bavaria, Germany

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