German fund Angel Invest, a European-focused Tremendous Angel Fund, immediately introduced that it has added €160 million in funds beneath administration over the previous few months – with a goal of investing in additional than 250 startups.
Its newest fund, Angel Fund III, represents a major growth of Angel Make investments’s actions, at present backing a couple of startup per week throughout Europe.
“Early-stage Founders want greater than capital. They want fast choices, skilled companions who know firm constructing and elevating capital, and assist that evolves with their journey,” stated Jens Lapinski, CEO of Angel Make investments. “With our new funds and expanded workforce, we’re doubling down on our mission to maximise the variety of category-defining corporations originating from Europe.”
Based in 2018, Angel Make investments invests in founding groups on the angel, pre-Seed, and Seed levels, providing capital and lively teaching to drive product–market match and safe exterior funding. With round 200 portfolio corporations and over €200 million in capital, Angel Make investments goals to assist the subsequent era of category-defining corporations originating from Europe.
These portfolio corporations have collectively secured greater than €2 billion in follow-on financing. Notably, Angel Make investments has already returned half of Fund I, pushed by 5 profitable exits, which serves as an early indicator of sturdy portfolio efficiency.
The portfolio consists of well-known companies throughout sectors akin to synthetic intelligence, B2B SaaS, infrastructure, digital well being, and shopper platforms.
The fund goals to speed up startups’ progress towards product–market match and to assist put together them for later-stage funding rounds, significantly Collection A.
The founding companions Jens Lapinski and Oliver Clasen and companions Jag Singh and John von Berenberg-Consbruch, additionally introduced that as a part of this growth, Angel Make investments will introduce two new full-time companions: Karl Joseph Seilern and Nazanin Daneshvar. The agency additionally welcomes Remo Mahler as Principal. Half-time Companions Miguel Encarnacion, Marco Muccini, and Jan-Oliver Promote have additionally joined.
Moreover, the agency added 5 associates and analysts respectively, bringing the full workforce dimension to 22. The fund believes that this growth strengthens Angel Make investments’s capability to assist Founders throughout Europe with hands-on, Founder-first steering.
Angel Make investments claims to mix the scalability of a structured fund with the agility of conventional angel investing. Its angel companions coach each founding workforce for at the very least one 12 months after funding.
“Our purpose is greater than simply writing checks. We wish to play our half in constructing a stronger startup ecosystem in Europe and particularly right here in Germany,” stated Angel Make investments in a public assertion.