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Venture Stars

Founders Stefan Pfannmoeller

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 14
Rounds per year 2.46
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.56
Exits 3
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Travel
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • E-Commerce
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Finoa

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M09 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

biddz

Music
$5M07 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finanzguru

Artificial Intelligence
Assistive Technology
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
$15M04 Apr 2023 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

ELISE

Information Technology
Software
$14M05 Sep 2022 Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany

Finanzguru

Artificial Intelligence
Assistive Technology
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
$9M11 Jan 2022 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Finoa

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$22M29 Apr 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finoa

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$2M07 Jan 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ELISE

Information Technology
Software
$3M10 Nov 2019 Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany

Holidu

Search Engine
Travel
Vacation Rental
$47M17 Sep 2019 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
News
Finoa Closes $22M Series A Funding Round

– Finoa, a Berlin, Germany-based digital asset custody and financial services platform for institutional investors and corporations, raised $22m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Balderton Capital, with further participation from existing investors Coparion, Venture Stars and Signature Ventures, as well as an undisclosed investor.
– The new investment will be used to build out its products and services, scale up the team, and enable participation in innovative financial services beyond custody and staking.

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Total investments 32
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 2.46
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.56
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.88

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Finoa

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$15M09 Jan 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

biddz

Music
$5M07 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finanzguru

Artificial Intelligence
Assistive Technology
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
$15M04 Apr 2023 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

ELISE

Information Technology
Software
$14M05 Sep 2022 Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany

Finanzguru

Artificial Intelligence
Assistive Technology
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
$9M11 Jan 2022 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Finoa

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$22M29 Apr 2021 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Finoa

Banking
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
$2M07 Jan 2020 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ELISE

Information Technology
Software
$3M10 Nov 2019 Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany

Holidu

Search Engine
Travel
Vacation Rental
$47M17 Sep 2019 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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