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Wellington Partners

Founders Rolf Christof Dienst

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Total investments 241
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$25M
Portfolio companies 131
Rounds per year 9.27
Lead investments 57
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.46
Exits 50
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
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Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Medical
  • Software
  • Therapeutics
Summary

Wellington Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1998. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The main department of described VC is located in the Munich.

The fund was created by Rolf Christof Dienst. Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 11 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Wellington Partners is more than 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Wellington Partners works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Therapeutics, E-Commerce. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spotify, Carisma Therapeutics, Livebookings Holdings Ltd.. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Wellington Partners, startups are often financed by Auriga Partners, 3i Group, High-Tech Gru00fcnderfonds. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Balderton Capital, Partech, Cipio Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Balderton Capital, OpenOcean, Northzone.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CorFlow Therapeutics AG

Medical
Medical Device
$51M10 Sep 2024 Zug, Switzerland

Sphingotec GmbH

Biotechnology
$5M08 Aug 2024 Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, Germany

Confo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$70M26 Jul 2024 City of Brussels, Belgium

SciRhom

Biotechnology
Health Care
$74M09 Jul 2024 Martinsried, Bayern, Germany

UroMems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$51M25 Jun 2024 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Seamless Therapeutics

Genetics
Therapeutics
$13M23 Apr 2024 Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$110M21 Feb 2024 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

myReha

Health Care
$5M22 Jun 2023 -

Seamless Therapeutics

Genetics
Therapeutics
$13M16 Mar 2023 Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
News
eGenesis Raises $125M in Series C Financing

– eGenesis from Cambridge, Mass. develops human-compatible organs, tissues, and cells.
– The company raised $125m in Series C funding.
– Backers included Farallon Capital Management, Polaris Partners, HBM Healthcare Investments, Invus, Samsara BioCapital, LifeSci Venture Partners, Irving Investors, Catalio Capital Management, SymBiosis, Altium Capital, Monashee Investment Management, and Osage University Partners and existing investors Leaps by Bayer, Fresenius Medical Care Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Wellington Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Alta Partners.

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Total investments 241
Average round size 25M
Rounds per year 9.27
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 57
Follow on index 0.46
Exits 50
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CorFlow Therapeutics AG

Medical
Medical Device
$51M10 Sep 2024 Zug, Switzerland

Sphingotec GmbH

Biotechnology
$5M08 Aug 2024 Hohen Neuendorf, Brandenburg, Germany

Confo Therapeutics

Biotechnology
Health Care
Medical
Therapeutics
$70M26 Jul 2024 City of Brussels, Belgium

SciRhom

Biotechnology
Health Care
$74M09 Jul 2024 Martinsried, Bayern, Germany

UroMems

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$51M25 Jun 2024 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Seamless Therapeutics

Genetics
Therapeutics
$13M23 Apr 2024 Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

MMI

Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$110M21 Feb 2024 Italy, Tuscany, Italy

myReha

Health Care
$5M22 Jun 2023 -

Seamless Therapeutics

Genetics
Therapeutics
$13M16 Mar 2023 Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
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