FOUNDERS ABOUT GRAZIA

ABOUT US

Grazia Equity is one of the leading early-stage Venture Capital firms in Europe.
For more than 25 years, we’ve been supporting entrepreneurs on their journey from foundation to IPO or sale.

 

  • Grazia is financially independent. Being entrepreneurs ourselves, we work with a very high share of our own capital. This gives us high flexibility and enables us to make fast and pragmatic decisions.
  • Grazia is a reliable partner along the life cycle of a company. While we are often one of the first investors with ticket sizes usually between EUR 0.5mn and EUR 2.5mn, we budget sufficient capital for each company to remain a strong partner for entrepreneurs during the development of their firm.
  • Grazia is driven by passion. We only invest in topics and teams that excite us. For example, we’ve been investing in clean tech since 1998, so impact investing is part of our DNA.
  • Grazia is very selective in choosing projects and teams. Without pressure to invest we only support what we believe to be the best of the best. Once we are in, founders can count on our full commitment.
  • Grazia is a true asset. Founders benefit from our unique business network to leading decision makers as well as from our extensive business-building expertise in B2B and B2C. We support and advise our founders with both strategic and operational challenges. We constantly strive to meet the highest standards.

Having invested throughout two severe financial market crises, we have proven that we weather stormy times. At the end of the day, fairness and empathy are the essential values that shape our decisions, our actions and our lives.

INVESTMENT FOCUS

We love great entrepreneurs as well as big, world-changing innovations and ideas.

Our enthusiasm is generally not limited to particular industries. Nevertheless the following success criteria are important to us:

  • An extraordinary, dynamic, complementary and talented team with relevant experience
  • A unique product or service that represents a true challenge to the status quo
  • A sustainable and defensible competitive advantage
  • A scalable business model
  • Sizeable market potential (at least 1bn USD directly addressable by the team and product)
  • Geographic focus: We do lead- and co-investments in early-stage companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
    For other European countries, United States and Africa we only do co-investments

Sustainable Consumption

With a rising global population and living standards, the Earth’s limited resources come more and more under pressure. Sustainable consumption will become mainstream as climate effects become visible in people’s daily life.

B2B DIGITIZATION
& ENTERPRISE TECH

Digitization of business processes is still nascent and plagued by island solutions. Advancements in AI and digitization unlock a massive saving potential that will drive corporate investments in this area. We are just at the beginning of this trend.

Industry focus

HEALTHCARE EFFECTIVENESS
& MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

An ageing population will reduce contributions in the healthcare system while simultaneously increasing the costs. Investments in effectiveness and efficiency of the system are thus mandatory. Moreover, there are still many material breakthroughs to be made.

CLEAN TECH
& RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

Global warming is a fact. Economic activity around the globe will remain on a rising path while the earth resources are limited. Hence, clean technologies as solar or wind energy as well as any offering that helps businesses to be more efficient will have high demand.

OFFICE

  • Grazia Equity GmbH
  • Falkertstrasse 10
  • 70176 Stuttgart