Paua Ventures

Total investments

70

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

45

Rounds per year

5.83

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

6

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyPaymentsMachine LearningSaaSEnterprise SoftwareCRM

Summary

Paua Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2010. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Berlin.

The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Paua Ventures performs on 19 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. When the investment is from Paua Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars.

The overall number of key employees were 5.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Paua Ventures, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, Senovo, Otto Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RI Digital Ventures, Otto Capital, Senovo. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Otto Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Stripe, Lesara, KIWI. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. 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. 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 fund investment industries, there are Mobile, SaaS.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
70
Lead investments
17
Exits
6
Rounds per year
5.83
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (22)
  • SaaS (16)
  • E-Commerce (10)
  • Retail (8)
  • Machine Learning (7)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (41)
  • United States (11)
  • Ireland (2)
  • Sweden (4)
  • Poland (3)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.87
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Deed 09 Dec 2021 Enterprise Software, Communities, Social Impact, Cause Marketing Early Stage Venture 10M United States, New York, New York
Otterspace 13 Jun 2022 Software Seed 3M Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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