FAQ

In January 2021, we announced additional funding from our two investors Axel Springer and Porsche, significantly increasing our total investment amount for new and existing portfolio companies to a volume of EUR 55 Million. Article from Techcrunch here.

We invest in exceptional earliest-stage founding teams building startups with digital business models – to become Europe’s leading earliest-stage VC. We look for diverse teams that want to lead, execute and win by assessing factors such as market momentum and validation of hypotheses. Our focus lies in a high financial return for our investors and a great impact on people and our planet. To learn more about what we look for as an investor, you can read this article.

We invest up to EUR 500,000 in startups even before a Series A, starting with a quick EUR 50,000 investment. Within a few months, depending on traction and speed, we intend to invest further.

You can find the full APX portfolio here.

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Yes. We support and partner with the most ambitious pre-seed startups from Europe and beyond – often as their first investor. Most of our portfolio companies have been incorporated in Germany, but the founders are coming from all over the world. To date, we have invested in +100 companies from +20 different countries. We have also invested in a series of US Delaware companies (due to the nature of VC)

We focus on earliest-stage founding teams, and we are often the first investor in the company. In general, there is no “too early” for us. Companies should already have an MVP (minimum viable product) or be able to build it shortly after the investment. 

We have invested in strong founding teams at the idea stage and also in companies post-market launch with more than EUR 100,000 in revenues. We usually want to be the first investor or part of the first round.

We invest up to EUR 500,000 in multiple steps even before a Series A starting with a quick EUR 50,000 investment in (usually) less than four weeks). Our investment comes with a pledge to join any future pro-rata follow-on financing rounds with market standard contracts and great external investors on board the round. Within a few months of our initial investment, depending on your traction and speed, we want to invest an additional EUR 150,000-200,000 as part of investment rounds with other investors.

Yes. At APX, we aim to make our early-stage investments easy & fast. For this reason, we made all details of our standardized convertible loan agreement (CLA), together with a set of explainers, publically available here.  For more information on our deal, you can read this article, and find out more about our investment strategy in our FAQ section.

If you have relevant commitment(s) from other qualified investors, and our standard deal is not in line with your current fundraising strategy, we are always happy to discuss alternative investment solutions for your specific case. Get in touch via hello@apx.vc.

An initial APX investment always comes with a pledge to join any future pro-rata follow-on financing rounds with market standard contracts and great external investors on board the round. So far, we have joined follow-on financing rounds for more than 70 % of our portfolio companies that have raised additional funds after the APX investment.

We want to tell you whether or not we want to invest in your company as soon as possible. That’s why we decided to be very specific about the data and documents we need from you before we can engage in any process. You can send us your pitch deck by completing this form.

We don’t have any specific KPI requirements or minimum thresholds. Like every investor, we like traction. But we’re able to invest even before you demonstrate traction if we are convinced of your team, idea, and hypotheses.

We can’t talk to you on the phone before you submit the form and pitch deck. The reason is resources. We focus all of our time and energy to support the companies we invest in, and those who are in the selection process. To get started, please complete this form and upload your pitch deck.

We try our best to review your application in a timely manner and get back to you as soon as possible. You can expect to hear back from us within a week.

The average time it takes us to take you through our pre-seed selection process – from you submitting your pitch deck and information on our website to our investment decision – is less than three weeks.

This depends on how much thought you have put into your idea. If you filled in a lean canvas before and created a pitch deck in advance, you shouldn’t need more than 15 minutes to submit the pitch deck and additional information in the form.

Yes. Please indicate in your submission form when you would like to work with our venture developers if selected for investment.

We wrote a blog post about what we believe a great pitch deck should include. Check it out!