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Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures

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Total investments 78
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 50
Rounds per year 4.59
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 8
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Food and Beverage
  • Health Care
  • Fashion
  • Software
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sorella Care

$5M26 Feb 2024 Moulineaux, Haute-Normandie, France

DUDE CHEM

Chemical
Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
$7M07 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

CarbonPool

Environmental Consulting
Insurance
$11M29 Jan 2024 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Farmless

Farming
Food and Beverage
$5M05 Dec 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Habyt

Communities
Coworking
Health Care
Lifestyle
Property Management
Real Estate
Smart Building
$47M04 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Resourcify

Renewable Energy
Software
Waste Management
$16M27 Sep 2023 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Sunhero

Renewable Energy
Solar
$11M13 Mar 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sourcerie

Beauty
Personal Health
$2M01 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Planted Foods

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Personal Health
$76M01 Sep 2022 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
News
Everdrop raises $21.8M Series A round led by Felix Capital for its dissolvable cleaning tablet

– Munich-based startup everdrop raised €18m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from HV Capital and Vorwerk Ventures.
– The company plans to develop a wider range of sustainable household products and market them across Europe, and eventually the U.S.

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Total investments 78
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 4.59
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sorella Care

$5M26 Feb 2024 Moulineaux, Haute-Normandie, France

DUDE CHEM

Chemical
Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
$7M07 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

CarbonPool

Environmental Consulting
Insurance
$11M29 Jan 2024 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Farmless

Farming
Food and Beverage
$5M05 Dec 2023 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Habyt

Communities
Coworking
Health Care
Lifestyle
Property Management
Real Estate
Smart Building
$47M04 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Resourcify

Renewable Energy
Software
Waste Management
$16M27 Sep 2023 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Sunhero

Renewable Energy
Solar
$11M13 Mar 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sourcerie

Beauty
Personal Health
$2M01 Mar 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Planted Foods

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Personal Health
$76M01 Sep 2022 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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