TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Leipzig, Germany

Total investments

141

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

91

Rounds per year

8.81

Lead investments

19

Follow on index

0.35

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareInformation TechnologyE-LearningArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEducationBig DataManufacturingElectronics

Summary

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Leipzig.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen, startups are often financed by SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Seventure Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, Wellington Partners.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen performs on 25 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Rhebo, Replex, Lecturio Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Electronics, Software.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistManufacturingIoTAI/Big DataAnalytics Show 7 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
Germany, Saxony
Check size
218K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
141
Lead investments
19
Exits
5
Rounds per year
8.81
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Software (32)
  • Manufacturing (18)
  • Information Technology (17)
  • Electronics (15)
  • Artificial Intelligence (12)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (135)
  • United States (5)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Group Appearance index
0.47
Avg. company exit year
6

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BirdsView 22 Aug 2023 E-Commerce, Customer Service Seed United States, Germany, Georgia
volytica diagnostics GmbH 07 Sep 2023 Seed 6M Saxony, Dresden, Germany

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