YoungBrains

Total investments

9

Average round size

655K

Portfolio companies

9

Rounds per year

0.75

Lead investments

6

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SocialInternetInformation TechnologyMobileMachine LearningCommunitiesSocial NetworkReal TimeCloud Data ServicesLegal

Summary

YoungBrains is the famous VC, which was founded in 2009. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Germany. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Hamburg.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 57 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2015. This YoungBrains works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Adjust, Casafari, nebenan.de. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Germany. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Health Care, Fitness. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 2 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the YoungBrains, startups are often financed by WestTech Ventures, Venture Stars, Venista Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Venture Stars, Venista Ventures, Tim Ringel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Target Partners, Point Nine Capital, Seventure Partners.

The fund was created by Mila Sukhareva, Nils Henning. The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
6
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.75
Investments by industry
  • Machine Learning (2)
  • Internet (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
  • Mobile (2)
  • Social Network (1)
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Investments by region
  • Portugal (1)
  • Germany (8)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
174M
Group Appearance index
0.44
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.90
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CASAFARI 10 Sep 2019 Real Estate Seed 5M Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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