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European VC Landscape – January 2023

Could the prevalence of seed rounds, accounting for 40% of all the conducted rounds in January, indicate a strategic shift in investment preferences? Discover more insights in our latest analysis.

02.01.2023

2023 starts with 430 VC investments in January, showing a slight decline in the number of investments.

Number and amounts of announced funding rounds over the past 6 months*

* All data as of February 9th, 2023

Software startups are once again the most popular investment

  • During the month of January, 430 financing rounds were announced.
  • The total amount invested in the announced financing rounds decreased to $3.4bn from $3.6bn in December.
  • Once again, most investments were made in Software companies, amounting to 99 investments, followed by information technology (54). In January , investments in health care companies make up the third place  (48).

Top 10 industries of financed startups according to the number of conducted investments

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BPIFRANCE is the most active investor of January; 40% of the month’s rounds were seed rounds.

Investors with the highest number of investments in January

Number and total volume of financing rounds per stage

Largest round was a Series D Round of $230.8mn

In January, most investments rounds were Seed rounds. Despite that, the largest volume of invested money was in Venture Rounds ($1,170mn). Only 1 large Series D round was conducted.

London, UK, is once again the European startup hotspot of the month

  • Not only were the most investments conducted in the UK (#107), but the highest volume was also invested there during January ($1,158.6mn).
  • Second most active country to raise venture capital is
    France (54 investments, $683.3mn) and then Germany
    (48 investments, $541.7mn).

In the spotlight: Enpal raised $230.8MN in January with the help of 6 investors.

Company

Industry

Renewable (Solar) Energy

Founded in

2017, Berlin

One-Sentence-Pitch

Enpal is a photovoltaics leasing firm that provides solar power systems for homeowners.

Financing round

Money raised

€215mn ($230.8mn)

Company valuation

€2bn (pre-money)

Type of financing round

Series D

Comment/Quote

Enpal raised €215mn ($231mn) in their 13th funding round.  Since 2017, Enpal raised a total of €1.7bn with the help of 30 investors. During the latest Series D round, the company was valued at €2bn.

Bloomberg.com

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