Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Blomberg, Germany

Total investments

14

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

11

Rounds per year

1.75

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InfrastructureSoftwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingCyber SecurityNetwork SecurityProfessional ServicesEnergyEnergy EfficiencyIndustrial Automation

Summary

The main office of represented VC is situated in the Blomberg. The company was established in Europe in Germany. Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, startups are often financed by KfW, Bilfinger Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Robert Bosch Venture Capital, KfW, KPN Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nordic Alpha Partners, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, ClearSky.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight smartB, iS5 Communications, SecurityMatters. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cyber Security, Electric Vehicle. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - The Netherlands. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. This Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataAR/VRRoboticsCybersecurityProptech/Real Estate Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series BSeries ASeed
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
126K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
14
Lead investments
1
Exits
2
Rounds per year
1.75
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Software (5)
  • Cyber Security (4)
  • Information Technology (3)
  • Network Security (3)
  • Industrial Automation (3)
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Investments by region
  • Canada (2)
  • Germany (6)
  • Israel (1)
  • Austria (2)
  • Netherlands (1)
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Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
10M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
22.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aedifion 01 Jan 2023 Software, Cloud Data Services Early Stage Venture 14M North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne, Germany

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