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Total investments 6
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 0.33
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Chemical
  • Biotechnology
  • Fuel
  • Renewable Energy
  • Fossil 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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chemical
E-Commerce
Marketplace
01 Jun 2018 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

evocatal

Biotechnology
Chemical
Pharmaceutical
$4M24 Jun 2013 Germany, Bavaria, Germany

BioAmber

Biotechnology
Chemical
GreenTech
$30M22 Feb 2012 Minnesota, United States

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Total investments 6
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 0.33
Peak activity year 2012
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Chemical
E-Commerce
Marketplace
01 Jun 2018 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

evocatal

Biotechnology
Chemical
Pharmaceutical
$4M24 Jun 2013 Germany, Bavaria, Germany

BioAmber

Biotechnology
Chemical
GreenTech
$30M22 Feb 2012 Minnesota, United States
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