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PolyTechnos Venture Partners

Founders Dirk Kanngiesser

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$15M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 1.17
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.54
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Manufacturing
  • Health Care
  • Telecommunications
  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical
Summary

PolyTechnos Venture Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1998. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Munich.

This organization was formed by Dirk Kanngiesser. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the PolyTechnos Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Sofinnova Partners, Walden Israel Venture Capital, Eurofund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden Israel Venture Capital, Eurofund, Vertex Ventures Israel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Gemini Israel Ventures, Walden Israel Venture Capital, Vertex Ventures Israel.

Opposing the other organizations, this PolyTechnos Venture Partners works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2006. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2009. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from PolyTechnos Venture Partners is 10-50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical Device, Electronics. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Plastic Logic Germany, Addex Therapeutics, NemeriX For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cappella Medical Devices

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$17M22 Jul 2009 Galway, Galway, Ireland

BiPar Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$20M12 Jan 2009 California, United States

NemeriX

Enterprise Software
Navigation
Semiconductor
Software
$22M17 Sep 2007 Ticino, Switzerland

Cappella Medical Devices

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$7M07 Mar 2007 Galway, Galway, Ireland

BiPar Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$35M26 Feb 2007 California, United States

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$7M20 Feb 2007 Israel, North District, Israel

Intelligent Medical Implants Ltd

Construction
Developer Platform
Manufacturing
$17M30 Oct 2006 Zug, Switzerland

Addex Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$29M19 Sep 2006 Geneva, Switzerland

Innolume

Guides
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$9M15 Jun 2006 North Rhine-Westphalia

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Total investments 28
Average round size 15M
Rounds per year 1.17
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.54
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Cappella Medical Devices

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$17M22 Jul 2009 Galway, Galway, Ireland

BiPar Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$20M12 Jan 2009 California, United States

NemeriX

Enterprise Software
Navigation
Semiconductor
Software
$22M17 Sep 2007 Ticino, Switzerland

Cappella Medical Devices

Health Care
Manufacturing
Medical Device
$7M07 Mar 2007 Galway, Galway, Ireland

BiPar Sciences

Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$35M26 Feb 2007 California, United States

Manufacturing
Optical Communication
Telecommunications
$7M20 Feb 2007 Israel, North District, Israel

Intelligent Medical Implants Ltd

Construction
Developer Platform
Manufacturing
$17M30 Oct 2006 Zug, Switzerland

Addex Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$29M19 Sep 2006 Geneva, Switzerland

Innolume

Guides
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
$9M15 Jun 2006 North Rhine-Westphalia
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