Picus Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Munich, Germany

Total investments

302

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

156

Rounds per year

33.56

Lead investments

26

Follow on index

0.48

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesFinanceArtificial IntelligenceSaaS

Summary

Picus Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Munich.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Recruiting. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. 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 Billie, Personio, Getsurance.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Picus Capital, startups are often financed by Vito One, Speedinvest, Lakehouse Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Y Combinator, Kairos. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Y Combinator, Speedinvest.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Picus Capital is 100-500 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Alexander Samwer, Jeremias Heinrich, Robin Godenrath. The overall number of key employees were 6.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EnergyClimate techFintechB2B/EnterpriseAI/Big Data Show 1 more
Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 200000000
Fund raised date
2024-02-15

Analytics

Total investments
302
Lead investments
26
Exits
5
Rounds per year
33.56
Follow on index
0.48
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (65)
  • FinTech (59)
  • Software (49)
  • Real Estate (41)
  • Internet (34)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (94)
  • United States (53)
  • France (9)
  • Singapore (13)
  • Mexico (13)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
4
Avg. valuation at time of investment
116M
Group Appearance index
0.80
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Ceezer 25 Jan 2024 CleanTech, Consulting, Digital Media Early Stage Venture 12M Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Valyria 21 Feb 2024 Early Stage Venture

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