Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

DSM Venturing

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 90
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 64
Rounds per year 3.91
Lead investments 30
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 9
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Biotechnology
  • Manufacturing
  • Food and Beverage
  • Wellness
Summary

DSM Venturing is the famous VC, which was founded in 1902. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Urmond. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This DSM Venturing works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Segetis, Verdezyne, Raycatch Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference 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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Medical, Health Care.

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

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the DSM Venturing, startups are often financed by BASF Venture Capital, Burrill & Company, Prelude Trust. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BASF Venture Capital, Burrill & Company, Prelude Trust. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Burrill & Company, BASF Venture Capital, Prelude Trust.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of DSM Venturing:
Typical Co-investors
DSM Venturing is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after DSM Venturing:

Funds with similar focus

Funds from The Netherlands
Funds with similar focus located in The Netherlands:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NutriLeads

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Health Care
Organic Food
$5M18 Dec 2023 The Netherlands, Gelderland, Netherlands

Octarine Bio

Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$5M08 Nov 2023 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Vivici

Dietary Supplements
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
14 Aug 2023 Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Meatable

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Innovation Management
$36M07 Aug 2023 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

DouxMatok

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$30M24 May 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

VitaminLab

Analytics
Dietary Supplements
Fitness
Health Care
Personalization
Software
08 May 2023 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Athian

Animal Feed
Livestock
$5M01 May 2023 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Paleo

AgTech
Food Processing
$14M21 Feb 2023 Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Meala Foodtech

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
$1M08 Feb 2023 -
News
Meatable Raises $47 Million Series A to Continue Scaling Trajectory and Expand its Product Portfolio with Beef

– Meatable has closed $47m in Series A funding.
– Consortium consists of Dr. Rick Klausner, Section 32, Dr. Jeffrey Leiden, and DSM Venturing.
– Existing investors, such as BlueYard Capital, Agronomics, Humboldt, and Taavet Hinrikus, show continued support.
– Meatable sees great potential in its technology and is betting on the company to solve the industry’s scalability and speed-to-market challenges with its patented opti-ox™ technology.
– Meatable aims to produce cultivated meat for which no animals are slaughtered, fewer GHG emissions are released, and less land and water are required.

Deep Branch Announces EUR 8M Series A Round led by Novo Holdings and DSM Venturing, Paving the Way for Commercial-Scale Production Facility

– Deep Branch has announced an €8M Series A round.
– The investment was led by Novo Holdings and DSM Venturing, with participation from Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures and Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital.
– Deep Branch addresses both the sustainability of animal farming and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions with their CO2-to-protein technology, creating the first scalable path for a truly sustainable protein generation process from a waste product.
– The Series A financing will enable the completion of Deep Branch’s Scale-Up Hub at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus (Limburg, NL), producing the first pilot-scale batches of Proton™ for full nutritional validation with Europe’s leading feed producers, including BioMar and AB Agri.
– It will also enable the company to inform key engineering design work for its first commercial scale production facility.

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent DSM Venturing?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 90
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 3.91
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 30
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 9
Group Appearance index 0.77

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

NutriLeads

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Health Care
Organic Food
$5M18 Dec 2023 The Netherlands, Gelderland, Netherlands

Octarine Bio

Bioinformatics
Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
$5M08 Nov 2023 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Vivici

Dietary Supplements
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
14 Aug 2023 Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Meatable

Food and Beverage
Food Processing
Innovation Management
$36M07 Aug 2023 Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

DouxMatok

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
Food Processing
$30M24 May 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

VitaminLab

Analytics
Dietary Supplements
Fitness
Health Care
Personalization
Software
08 May 2023 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Athian

Animal Feed
Livestock
$5M01 May 2023 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Paleo

AgTech
Food Processing
$14M21 Feb 2023 Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Meala Foodtech

Biotechnology
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
$1M08 Feb 2023 -
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: