SGT German Private Equity GmbH & Co. KGaA

German Startups Group GmbH & Co. KGaA is a venture capital specializing in investing in seed/startups, early stage, growth capital, mid venture, and growth stage. It also invests through secondary market. The firm seeks to invest in digital economy, Internet, software, mobile, apps, software, sharing economy, financial technology, health, and clean energy sectors. It prefers to invest in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The firm typically invests between €0.1 million ($0.10 million) and €3 million ($3.16 million). For seed and early stage investments, the firm invests around €0.1 million ($0.10 million); upto €0.5 million ($0.55 million) in early stage; for later stage and special situation investments, it prefers to invest between €0.25 million ($0.27 million) and €0.75 million ($0.82 million) in its portfolio companies; and for more mature startups in the growth stage typically range between €0.5 million ($0.55 million) and €2 million ($2.19 million) per financing round. It seeks to co-invest. The firm prefers to acquire a minority stake in seed and early stage investments and also takes majority stake. It seeks to also acquire ‘secondary shares’ of more mature startups from founders, business angels, and other early stage investors. The firm seeks to organize follow-on funding rounds together with co-investors. German Startups Group GmbH & Co. KGaA was founded in June 2012 and is based in Berlin, Germany.