Figure 1 shows the breakdown of investors; domestic and international, in Germany over the past six years from 2016 – 2021 and Figure 2 shows that foreign investors have higher overall share of involvement 55% in the German VC ecosystem.
Figure 3, indicates that the German VC landscape is prominently dominated by corporate investors with an average representation of 88.2% over the last five years. Figure 4 and Figure 5 provide a detailed information about number of financing rounds and accumulated value every six months. Apart from a little spike in funding rounds in 2021, the average number of rounds is approximately 690 per year. There is a bit slowdown in VC funding rounds, but the funding amount in H1 2022 is significantly less than previous year.
Overall, the German exit scenario in accordance with Figure 6, is highly dominated with IPOs rather than M&A which represent only 15.33% of total exits over last five years. The share of exits in terms IPO each year grew at a steady pace till 2020 but decreased in 2021 compared to 2020 and roughly 3% increase in M&A exits was observed as per Figure 7.
