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Scala Ventures

Founders Sacha Carton Ulrich Schmidt

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 4
Rounds per year 0.62
Lead investments 1
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Mobile
  • Advertising
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Social Media
  • Internet
Summary

Scala Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Lugano. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Denmark. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Marketing. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight adQuota, Atosho, prettysocial media International GmbH.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Scala Ventures, startups are often financed by Supremum Capital, Concentric. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Concentric, Northcap, German Startups Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Concentric.

This Scala Ventures works on 31 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from Scala Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The current fund was established by Sacha Carton, Ulrich Schmidt. Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

prettysocial media

Content Delivery Network
Digital Media
Internet
Social Media
$2M01 Jan 2016 Bavaria

Atosho

Advertising
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Mobile
NFC
Software
$2M26 May 2014 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

prettysocial media

Content Delivery Network
Digital Media
Internet
Social Media
$590K01 Dec 2013 Bavaria

Kirondo

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
22 Aug 2013 Berlin

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Total investments 5
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 0.62
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

prettysocial media

Content Delivery Network
Digital Media
Internet
Social Media
$2M01 Jan 2016 Bavaria

Atosho

Advertising
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Mobile
NFC
Software
$2M26 May 2014 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

prettysocial media

Content Delivery Network
Digital Media
Internet
Social Media
$590K01 Dec 2013 Bavaria

Kirondo

E-Commerce
Fashion
Lifestyle
22 Aug 2013 Berlin
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