Vorwerk Ventures

Total investments

78

Average round size

16M

Portfolio companies

50

Rounds per year

4.59

Lead investments

18

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

8

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareConsumer GoodsFood and BeverageFood ProcessingHealth CareLifestyleMarketplacePersonal HealthFashion

Summary

Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2007. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Wuppertal.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight HelloFresh, Neato Robotics, flaschenpost SE. 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. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Robotics, Health Care.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, startups are often financed by Project A, Saarbruecker 21, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Project A, btov Partners, Franz Koch. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Project A, Insight Partners.

Opposing the other organizations, this Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The typical startup value when the investment from Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures is 50-100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
78
Lead investments
18
Exits
8
Rounds per year
4.59
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • E-Commerce (25)
  • Food and Beverage (13)
  • Health Care (13)
  • Fashion (11)
  • Software (10)
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Investments by region
  • Germany (61)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Switzerland (5)
  • United States (2)
  • Ireland (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
70M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
5.55
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Everdrop 14 Jul 2022 E-Commerce, Consumer Goods Early Stage Venture 94M Munich, Bavaria, Germany
rebike1 13 Apr 2022 E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Late Stage Venture 22M Germany, Bavaria, Germany
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