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YoungBrains

Founders Mila Suharev Nils Henning

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$655K
Portfolio companies 9
Rounds per year 0.75
Lead investments 6
Exits 2
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Machine Learning
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • Social Network
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CASAFARI

Real Estate
$5M10 Sep 2019 Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

nebenan.de

Communities
Social
Social Network
01 Jun 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

EDITION F GmbH

Business Intelligence
Digital Entertainment
Social Media
01 Jan 2015 Germany, Berlin

JustBook

Mobile
Travel
16 Jul 2012 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Monedo

Banking
Big Data
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
04 Mar 2012 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Adjust

Affiliate Marketing
App Marketing
Apps
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing Automation
Mobile
Software
01 Jan 2012 Germany, Berlin

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Total investments 9
Average round size 655K
Rounds per year 0.75
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 6
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.44

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CASAFARI

Real Estate
$5M10 Sep 2019 Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

nebenan.de

Communities
Social
Social Network
01 Jun 2015 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

EDITION F GmbH

Business Intelligence
Digital Entertainment
Social Media
01 Jan 2015 Germany, Berlin

JustBook

Mobile
Travel
16 Jul 2012 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Monedo

Banking
Big Data
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Machine Learning
04 Mar 2012 Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Adjust

Affiliate Marketing
App Marketing
Apps
Information Technology
Internet
Marketing Automation
Mobile
Software
01 Jan 2012 Germany, Berlin
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