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Piton Capital

Founders Andrin Bachmann Greg Lockwood

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Total investments 109
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$18M
Portfolio companies 49
Rounds per year 7.79
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.54
Exits 10
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Marketplace
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Software
  • Health Care
Summary

Piton Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

This Piton Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Piton Capital is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Piton Capital, startups are often financed by Cherry Ventures, RTAventures VC, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cherry Ventures, Vostok New Ventures, RTAventures VC. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Target Global, RTAventures VC, MMC Ventures.

The current fund was established by Andrin Bachmann, Greg Lockwood. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no 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 Enterprise Software, Marketplace. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Auto1 Group, ManoMano, Booksy.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vesper

Business Intelligence
Information Services
29 Nov 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Munch - (B)eat food waste!

07 Nov 2023 -

Gringo

Apps
Automotive
Information Services
$28M26 Sep 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Patient 21

Health Care
$76M22 May 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Enmacc

Energy
Information Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
28 Sep 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Ferryhopper

Internet
Travel
$5M28 Jun 2022 Athens, Attica, Greece

Gringo

Apps
Automotive
Information Services
$36M17 Mar 2022 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

mediately

Apps
Medical
Mobile
$8M10 Feb 2022 Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia

Bold

Credit Cards
Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Payments
Point of Sale
Transaction Processing
$55M03 Feb 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

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Total investments 109
Average round size 18M
Rounds per year 7.79
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.54
Exits 10
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Vesper

Business Intelligence
Information Services
29 Nov 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Munch - (B)eat food waste!

07 Nov 2023 -

Gringo

Apps
Automotive
Information Services
$28M26 Sep 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Patient 21

Health Care
$76M22 May 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Enmacc

Energy
Information Services
Information Technology
Trading Platform
28 Sep 2022 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Ferryhopper

Internet
Travel
$5M28 Jun 2022 Athens, Attica, Greece

Gringo

Apps
Automotive
Information Services
$36M17 Mar 2022 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

mediately

Apps
Medical
Mobile
$8M10 Feb 2022 Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia

Bold

Credit Cards
Debit Cards
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Mobile Payments
Payments
Point of Sale
Transaction Processing
$55M03 Feb 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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