main incubator

Type

Venture Capital

Total investments

55

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

33

Rounds per year

5.00

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.40

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsArtificial IntelligenceSaaSPersonal FinanceBankingInsurance

Summary

In 2013 was created main incubator, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Frankfurt.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from main incubator is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the main incubator, startups are often financed by Wayra, Nicole Junkermann, NJF Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Swiss Life, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, Deutsche Bank. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 42CAP, Varengold Bank, NJF Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Grover, Userlane, OptioPay. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Subscription Service, Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany.

The current fund was established by Matthias Lais, Michael Spitz. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

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Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
55
Lead investments
8
Exits
3
Rounds per year
5.00
Follow on index
0.40
Investments by industry
  • Software (20)
  • Financial Services (20)
  • FinTech (18)
  • SaaS (16)
  • Information Technology (13)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (46)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Estonia (2)
  • United States (1)
  • Sweden (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
28M
Group Appearance index
0.96
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
beatvest 26 Jan 2023 Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance Seed 1M Bayern, Munich, Germany
Vamo 27 Sep 2023 Manufacturing, Service Industry Seed 3M United States, Germany, Georgia

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