Picus Capital
Venture Capital
Active
Munich, Germany
302
13M
156
33.56
26
0.48
5
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- 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) Show 158 more
- Investments by region
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- Germany (94)
- United States (53)
- France (9)
- Singapore (13)
- Mexico (13) Show 16 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 3
- Number of Decacorns
- 3
- Number of Minotaurs
- 3
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- 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 |
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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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