Venture Stars

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Munich, Germany

Total investments

34

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

2.62

Lead investments

4

Follow on index

0.56

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechBankingCryptocurrencyBlockchainTravelSearch EngineVacation Rental

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.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
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)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (34)
Peak activity year
2018

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Quantitative data

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
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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