NRW.BANK

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Düsseldorf, Germany

Total investments

91

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

61

Rounds per year

4.14

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.31

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSMedical DeviceMedical

Summary

NRW.BANK is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 2002. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Du00fcsseldorf.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline CHRONEXT, HoloBuilder, Scienion Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, E-Commerce.

We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The typical startup value when the investment from NRW.BANK is 10-50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. 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. The high activity for fund was in 2014. Comparing to the other companies, this NRW.BANK performs on 17 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the NRW.BANK, startups are often financed by KfW, Capnamic Ventures, S-Venture Capital Dortmund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, KfW, Capnamic Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Creathor Ventures, Peppermint Venture Partners, Capnamic Ventures.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Climate techTelecommunicationsAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseSecurity Show 5 more
Stage focus
Series ASeed
Check size
Up to 16M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
91
Lead investments
8
Exits
8
Rounds per year
4.14
Follow on index
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Biotechnology (24)
  • Health Care (19)
  • Software (15)
  • Medical (13)
  • Information Technology (13)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (85)
  • United States (2)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
14M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
6.02

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Black Semiconductor 12 Jun 2024 Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics Early Stage Venture 30M Nordrhein-Westfalen, Aachen, Germany
Refined Laser Systems 26 Jan 2023 Manufacturing, Electronics Seed 3M Lower Saxony, Niedersachsen, Germany

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