LEA Partners

Type

Private equity, Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Karlsruhe, Germany

Total investments

29

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

21

Rounds per year

1.32

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSAppsSmall and Medium BusinessesCloud Computing

Summary

LEA Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2002. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Karlsruhe.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the LEA Partners, startups are often financed by TEV | Tengelmann Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wecken & Cie., Vito Ventures, VC Fonds Baden-Wurttemberg.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are B2C, Indoor Positioning. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline understand.ai, sevDesk, INTRANAV For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2017. This LEA Partners works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
1M — 5M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 200000000
Fund raised date
2018-05-15

Analytics

Total investments
29
Lead investments
8
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.32
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Information Technology (12)
  • Artificial Intelligence (10)
  • Machine Learning (6)
  • SaaS (5)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (27)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
19M
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
12
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Codesphere 17 May 2024 Software, SaaS, Productivity Tools, Software Engineering, Developer Tools, Web Apps, Web Development Early Stage Venture 19M United States, Delaware
paretos 17 Sep 2021 Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Small and Medium Businesses Seed 4M Baden-Wurttemberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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