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Picus Capital

Founders Alexander Samwer Jeremias Heinrich Robin Godenrath

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Total investments 314
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$13M
Portfolio companies 162
Rounds per year 34.89
Lead investments 28
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.48
Exits 5
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Real Estate
  • Internet
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jet HR

Human Resources
SaaS
$14M24 Sep 2024 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Landbase

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$12M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Blitzy

Software
$4M03 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greptime

Database
Infrastructure
Internet of Things
IT Infrastructure
Software
07 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Axle Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy Management
Smart Home
$9M01 Aug 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Poupachef

$55M30 Jul 2024 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Alvys

Accounting
Fleet Management
Information Technology
Logistics
Software
Transportation
$20M15 Jul 2024 Solana Beach, California, United States

Niva Technologies

$3M08 Jul 2024 New York, New York, United States

Klarity

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Document Management
Document Preparation
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$70M24 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
News
MODIFI Valuation Increases to $120M as Global Fintech Company Raises $24M in Equity

– MODIFI announced $24M in funding, which brings its valuation to more than $120M.
– The round was led by Heliad Equity Partners with a co-investment from Neva SGR, the venture capital investment vehicle of Italy’s leading banking group Intesa San Paolo.
– Existing investors also participated significantly, including Global Founders Capital, Maersk Growth, and Picus Capital.
– The funds will be used to grow MODIFI’s digital trade finance platform for SMBs (small-to-medium businesses) into a global trade management hub.

Telos Brands Raises $2.1M in Seed Funding From Picus Capital

– Telos Brands, a technology-first eCommerce company focused on the Amazon FBA ecosystem, announced a $2.1M seed round led by Picus Capital with participation from select business angels.
– Telos has also raised an undisclosed amount of debt from several financing partners to support acquisitions.
– Telos Brands is rethinking the “Amazon Aggregator” model that has become popular over the last couple of years by utilizing predictive analytics, automation tools and other proprietary technology-first processes to grow and optimize acquired brands.

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Total investments 314
Average round size 13M
Rounds per year 34.89
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 28
Follow on index 0.48
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.81

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Jet HR

Human Resources
SaaS
$14M24 Sep 2024 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Landbase

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$12M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Blitzy

Software
$4M03 Sep 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greptime

Database
Infrastructure
Internet of Things
IT Infrastructure
Software
07 Aug 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Axle Energy

Electrical Distribution
Energy Management
Smart Home
$9M01 Aug 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Poupachef

$55M30 Jul 2024 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Alvys

Accounting
Fleet Management
Information Technology
Logistics
Software
Transportation
$20M15 Jul 2024 Solana Beach, California, United States

Niva Technologies

$3M08 Jul 2024 New York, New York, United States

Klarity

Accounting
Artificial Intelligence
Document Management
Document Preparation
Machine Learning
SaaS
Software
$70M24 Jun 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
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