PRICAP Venture Partners

Profile

PRICAP Venture Partners AG is a principal investment firm specializing in seed, start-ups, early stage, expansion stage, pre-IPO, and bridge financing. The firm also participates in management buy out and management buy in transactions. It will consider investing in the new economy sector, which includes the following industries: new media, information technology telecommunications, high tech industrial solutions, software and hardware, semi-conductors, Internet, medical technology, nano-tech, micro-tech, and alternative energies. The firm prefers to invest in German speaking countries. It invests between €0.1 million ($0.12 million) and €10 million ($12.11 million) per deal. The firm will take a majority or minority stake in its portfolio companies. In August 2000, it merged with Alta Vista Equity Partner GmbH & Co. KG. PRICAP Venture Partners AG was formed in March 1998 and is based at Hamburg, Germany.