Monkfish Equity

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Leipzig, Germany

Total investments

56

Average round size

24M

Portfolio companies

48

Rounds per year

4.67

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceInternetSoftwareHealth CareWellnessAppsMarketplaceTravelTourism

Summary

Monkfish Equity appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Leipzig.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Tourism. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline SpareFoot, Exporo, Tourlane

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Monkfish Equity, startups are often financed by Insight Partners, Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Insight Partners, Project A, HOWZAT Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Project A, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, btov Partners.

The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Monkfish Equity is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Monkfish Equity works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Malte Siewert, Peter Vinnemeier, Rolf Schru00f6mgens, Stephan Stubner. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series BSeries A
Geo focus
GeneralistGermanyUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
56
Lead investments
4
Exits
8
Rounds per year
4.67
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Internet (18)
  • E-Commerce (15)
  • Marketplace (12)
  • Software (10)
  • Health Care (7)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (36)
  • United States (9)
  • Austria (3)
  • Lithuania (1)
  • Turkey (3)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
301M
Group Appearance index
0.75
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
5.93
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Freshly 20 Jun 2017 E-Commerce, Internet, Food Delivery Late Stage Venture 77M United States, New York, New York
Kolay 28 Sep 2017 Software, Human Resources, SaaS Seed 1M Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey

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