Rocket Internet

Berlin, Germany
CVC
Active
Total investments

157

Average round size

32M

Portfolio companies

107

Rounds per year

9.24

Lead investments

30

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

37

Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetFinancial ServicesFinTechRetailInformation TechnologyMarketplaceFashionShoppingFood Delivery

Summary

Rocket Internet appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2007. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Berlin.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Rocket Internet is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Rocket Internet works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Rocket Internet, startups are often financed by Summit Partners, Phenomen Ventures, H14. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TEV | Tengelmann Ventures, btov Partners, RTP Global. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Global Founders Capital, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures, Summit Partners.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Financial Services, Marketplace. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Delivery Hero, Lazada Group, Funding Circle Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

The fund was created by Alexander Samwer, Marc Samwer, Oliver Samwer. The overall number of key employees were 1.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
157
Lead investments
30
Exits
37
Rounds per year
9.24
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (69)
  • Internet (42)
  • FinTech (26)
  • Financial Services (18)
  • Retail (15)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (71)
  • Nigeria (5)
  • Singapore (12)
  • Luxembourg (2)
  • United Kingdom (12)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
243M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
0.36
Strategy success index
0.90

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