Venture Stars
Venture Capital
Active
Munich, Germany
34
7M
15
2.62
4
0.56
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Venture Stars appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Munich.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Venture Stars, startups are often financed by Point Nine Capital, Heliad Equity Partners, Blumberg Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Heliad Equity Partners, Senovo, Mountain Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TA Capital, Senovo, Mountain Partners.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Miflora, Hundeland, Vitafy. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive 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. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Vacation Rental, Fitness.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Comparing to the other companies, this Venture Stars performs on 11 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.
This organization was formed by Stefan Pfannmoeller. The overall number of key employees were 5.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Check size
- 529K — 2M
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 34
- Lead investments
- 4
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 2.62
- Follow on index
- 0.56
- Investments by industry
- Financial Services (10)
- FinTech (9)
- Travel (8)
- E-Commerce (7)
- Banking (7) Show 27 more
- Investments by region
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- Germany (34)
- Peak activity year
- 2018
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 5M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.88
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
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Latest deals
Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
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Elemy | 21 Jul 2020 | Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical | Seed | 10M | United States, Florida, Miami |
Holidu | 07 Jan 2016 | Travel, Search Engine, Vacation Rental | Early Stage Venture | 5M | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
Tilta | 04 Jun 2024 | Financial Services | Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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