NFQ Capital

Total investments

23

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

2.30

Follow on index

0.26

Exits

3

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
LogisticsE-CommerceInternetMobileArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageTravelTourismLeisureShipping

Summary

NFQ Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. NFQ Capital appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Munich.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Food and Beverage. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GetYourGuide, ShipBob, Tourlane.

The current fund was established by Harald Braunstein, Lars Jankowfsky, Wolfgang Heigl.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the NFQ Capital, startups are often financed by TA Ventures, Y Combinator, Marco Valta. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TruVenturo, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Target Global. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Spark Capital, DN Capital.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. This NFQ Capital works on 22 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
2.30
Follow on index
0.26
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Travel (6)
  • Tourism (5)
  • Logistics (5)
  • Internet (4)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (11)
  • United States (8)
  • Austria (1)
  • Malaysia (2)
  • Netherlands (1)
Peak activity year
2016
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
248M
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lemoncat 30 May 2016 E-Commerce, Marketplace, Events Seed 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Raus 22 Nov 2022 Travel, Tourism, Leisure Seed 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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