German Venture Capital: Better Than Its Reputation

MUNICH , Germany, January 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

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German Venture Capital Funds have generated comparable or better returns than their US counterparts, as new data presented by three of Germany's largest venture capital firms Earlybird, Target Partners and Wellington Partners shows.

The three VC firms analysed today's most recent data provided by the "Private Equity Analyzer online database" that is hosted by the Munich based independent benchmarking specialist CEPRES. As part of a recently completed survey, the Database now gives an unprecedented overview of the international VC industry. The analysis shows that venture capital investments in German portfolio companies with investments dated between 1998 and 2010 generated an average gross return of 11.4 percent. In the same time period, US companies achieved an average gross return of 7.7 percent. The analysis was based on data from 496 VC investments in Germany as well as profiles of 6940 venture investments in the US.

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