Venista Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Cologne, Germany

Total investments

28

Average round size

745K

Portfolio companies

20

Rounds per year

1.40

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.29

Exits

6

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsMobileSaaSBig DataDigital MarketingTravelData Visualization

Summary

In 2004 was created Venista Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Cologne. The venture was found in Europe in Germany.

This organization was formed by Christian Teichert, Oliver Wimmeroth. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The real fund results show that this VC is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2013. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Venista Ventures works on 21 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Venista Ventures, startups are often financed by Rheingau Founders, German Startups Group, hub:raum. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are WestTech Ventures, Venture Stars, Rheingau Founders. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rheingau Founders, YoungBrains, WestTech Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are DSP, Lifestyle. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Datapine. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
SeedPre-Seed
Geo focus
AustriaBelgiumDenmarkFinlandFrance Show 12 more
Check size
55K — 164K

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
28
Lead investments
1
Exits
6
Rounds per year
1.40
Follow on index
0.29
Investments by industry
  • Software (9)
  • Mobile (6)
  • E-Commerce (6)
  • Internet (4)
  • Travel (3)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (24)
  • United Kingdom (2)
  • United States (1)
Peak activity year
2013

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Group Appearance index
0.64
Avg. company exit year
4

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
circuly 30 Jun 2021 E-Commerce, Internet, Software, SaaS Seed 1M North Rhine-Westphalia, Bielefeld, Germany
Tilta 04 Jun 2024 Financial Services Seed Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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