Capnamic Ventures

Capnamic Ventures
Private partnership
Industry Venture capital
Founded 2013
Headquarters Cologne, Germany
Website capnamic.de

Capnamic is a venture capital firm based in Cologne, Germany focusing on investments in the technology sector. The firm is managing its first fund generation and is among the largest independent Early-Stage venture capital investors in Germany.[1]

About

Capnamic Ventures was founded in 2013 by managing partners Christian Siegele and Jörg Binnenbrücker and maintains offices in Cologne and Berlin.[2] In December 2015, Olaf Jacobi joined Capnamic Ventures as general partner.[3]

Fund Setup

The fund’s investor base consists of established corporations (multi company approach) from various industries (publishing, retail, banking, internet, music, aviation, advertising) as well as family offices and High-net-worth individuals.[4] The firm maintains a partnership with Iris Capital, one of the leading European Growth & Development Capital funds in the TMT sector in form of a co-invest agreement for all German Early Stage investments with the OP Ventures Early-Stage Fund – a multi company fund by France-Télécom-Orange and Publicis Groupe.[5][6]

Investment Focus

Capnamic focuses its investment activities on scalable business models along the digital value chain in fast-growing sectors e.g. Mobile, Data, Analytics, SaaS, FinTech, Mobility, eHealth, Smart Devices.[7] The firm does Seed- and Series A investments with initial ticket sizes usually ranging between 500k and €2.0M and also opportunistically participates in later stage deals.[8] Geographically, Capnamic invests in the European market, with special emphasize on Germany, Switzerland and Austria.[7]

Current Portfolio

The current portfolio of Capnamic Ventures currently consists of 13 companies:[9][10]

Managed for DuMont Venture

In addition to its own fund, Capnamic Ventures is managing the entire DuMont Venture portfolio.[9][19]

Past Investments

The Capnamic team’s track record includes multiple IPOs and trade sales.[7][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Capnamic United Venture Fund I GmbH & Co. KG: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Businessweek.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  2. ↑ "Jörg Binnenbrücker startet Kölner VC-Fonds". Gründerszene Magazin. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  3. ↑ "Capnamic hires additional partner". www.unquote.com. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  4. ↑ Capnamic Website
  5. ↑ "Paris' Iris Capital and Cologne's Capnamic team up to back early-stage tech in Germany". VentureVillage. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  6. ↑ "Orange and Publicis Groupe Announce the Creation of IrisNext | Business Wire". www.businesswire.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  7. 1 2 3 "Capnamic Ventures | CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  8. ↑ Capnamic Website
  9. 1 2 3 Capnamic Website
  10. ↑ "Capnamic Ventures - Investments | CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  11. ↑ Etherington, Darrell. "Analytics Firm Adeven Raises $4.3M To Continue To Push Beyond The Mobile Install Metric". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  12. ↑ O'Hear, Steve. "Adeven Launches Adjust.io Analyzer To Give Mobile App Advertisers Combined Analytics And Tracking". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  13. ↑ Dillet, Romain. "Agorize Bags $2.6 Million To Crowdsource Business Ideas With Open Innovation Challenges". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  14. ↑ "CommerzVentures et al. invest in GetSafe". www.unquote.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  15. ↑ O'Hear, Steve. "Car Rental Price Comparison Startup Happycar Picks Up Backing From Rocket Internet's GFC". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  16. ↑ "Today in Germany: Quandoo, LeanIX, COMATCH". VentureVillage. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  17. ↑ "German MCN Mediakraft secures $23M in financing". Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  18. ↑ O'Hear, Steve. "Berlin's Zeotap Raises $6.4M To Let Telcos Sell Customer Data To Mobile Advertisers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  19. ↑ "DuMont Venture | DuMont Mediengruppe". www.dumont.de. Retrieved 2015-12-21.


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