Seed+speed

Total investments

59

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

51

Rounds per year

7.38

Lead investments

14

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSMedical

Summary

Seed + Speed Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Hanover. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany.

The fund was created by Carsten Maschmeyer. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Seed + Speed Ventures, startups are often financed by Samsung NEXT, Right Click Capital, Deutsche Bank. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Samsung NEXT, Plug and Play, coparion. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Samsung NEXT, coparion, Verizon Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flock Ltd., Finanzguru, Geld-fu00fcr-Flug. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Germany. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer, Health Care. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Seed + Speed Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
59
Lead investments
14
Exits
4
Rounds per year
7.38
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (16)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Machine Learning (8)
  • SaaS (8)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (44)
  • Austria (6)
  • United States (2)
  • Switzerland (3)
  • United Kingdom (1)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
147K
Group Appearance index
0.76
Avg. company exit year
5

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