About Grazia Equity
Grazia Equity is a venture capital firm founded in 1998. It is primarily based out of Stuttgart, Germany. As of Jul 2025, Grazia Equity is an active investor, having invested in 49 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series A round in Germany based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Life Sciences. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Q.ANT Overall, Grazia Equity portfolio has seen 1 unicorn, 4 IPOs and 17 acquisitions including key companies like SiTime, Immatics and Statista. A lot of funds co-invest with Grazia Equity, with names like IP Group sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Grazia Equity has team of 7 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Seed & 5 more
Portfolio Unicorns
Grazia Equity's List of Top Investments
Grazia Equity has a portfolio of 49 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in YEAY and Inspekto.Their portfolio spans across Germany, United States, Switzerland and 3 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Life Sciences and 25 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed and 5 more. Here is the list of top investments by Grazia Equity:1. SiTime
Provider of RF MEMS-based oscillators and resonators. Its product portfolio includes jitter cleaners/network synchronizers, clock generators, MHz oscillators, programmable OCXOs, precision MHz Super-TCXOs, ruggedized oscillators, µPower oscillators, and resonators. It has applications in infrastructure, automotive, industrial, IoT, mobile-wearable, consumer, aerospace, and defence.
Key facts about SiTime
- Founded Year: 2004
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $203M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $52M
- Employee Count: 382 as on Dec 31, 2023
- Investors: Hercules Capital, CampVentures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Sep 23, 2014, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. Lumotive
Developer of programmable optics technology for 3D sensing and communications. The company's Light Control Metasurface technology enables manipulation of light for applications including industrial automation, smart environments, and autonomous vehicles. It offers products such as LCM chips, development kits, and reference systems. The technology also serves optical circuit switching and communications applications.
Key facts about Lumotive
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Bellevue (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $72M
- Employee Count: 28 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Quan Funds, TSVC and 16 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 22, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. VYTAL
Platform offering App-based smart packaging solutions. It alows customers to buy a membership at its partnered restaurants and order a meal choosing the reusable bowls. It allows custommers to return the bowl at the partnered restaurants for further use. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
Key facts about VYTAL
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Cologne (Germany)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $51M
- Employee Count: 45 as on Dec 31, 2021
- Investors: HW Capital, Inven Capital and 30 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Mar 11, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Immatics
Developer of T -cell-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. The company has propriety platform XPRESIDENT is involved in identifying and validating antigens specific to cancer cells and subsequently develops adoptive cell therapies and bispecific TCRs for treating cancer. IMA101, using its proprietary ACTolog approach, which is T-cell products generated from peripheral blood cells with defined target selectivity.
Key facts about Immatics
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Tubingen (Germany)
- Annual Revenue: €9.02M as on Dec 31, 2018
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $236M
- Employee Count: 618 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Amgen Business Development, Timefolio Capital and 18 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 24, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Public
5. Zageno
Marketplace and life science research community for biotech research kits. Users can search for products to help with various research requirements including sample preparation, gene editing, PCR, detection, labelling, and sequencing. It also lists accessories such as nucleotides and plasmid vectors. Products are provided with a scientific score that is based on scientific papers, publication mentions, citations, social impact, positive & negative reviews, etc.
Key facts about Zageno
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Cambridge (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $121M
- Employee Count: 125 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: General Catalyst, Fabrice Grinda and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, May 25, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Grazia Equity's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Grazia Equity has invested in 49 companies over the last 26 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 3 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Q.ANT and most recent follow-on round was in VYTAL.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Grazia Equity's Investments by Stage
Grazia Equity has made 16 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $16M, 9 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.25M and 7 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $15.9M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 16 |
Seed | 9 |
Series B | 7 |
Series D | 2 |
PE | 1 |
Others | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Grazia Equity's Investments by Sector
Grazia Equity has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Life Sciences and Retail. Notably, it has invested in 38 Tech companies, 30 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 18 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 14 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Consumer | 13 |
High Tech | 9 |
Enterprise Applications | 8 |
Life Sciences | 6 |
Retail | 5 |
Others | 41 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Grazia Equity's Investments by Geography
Grazia Equity has made most investments in Germany (23), followed by United States where it has made 9 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Germany | 23 |
United States | 9 |
Switzerland | 2 |
Israel | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Grazia Equity's recent investments
Grazia Equity has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Grazia Equity:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jul 17, 2025 | Germany | Series A | 9695 | [+8] | |
Mar 11, 2025 | Germany | Series B | 1877 | [+5] | |
Feb 20, 2025 | United States | Series B | 9075 | [+9] | |
Sep 10, 2024 | Germany | Series B | 2685 | [+11] | |
Aug 22, 2024 | Germany | Series A | 5464 | [+5] |
Unicorns in Grazia Equity's Portfolio
Grazia Equity has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - TIER. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is TIER which became a unicorn in 2021.Here is a list of unicorns in Grazia Equity's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
58 | App-based rental platform for electric kick-scooters | 2018 | Berlin | Series D | cqan{du |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Grazia Equity's Portfolio
4 of Grazia Equity's portfolio companies have become public. Immatics got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Jul 2020 and SiTime got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $194M.Here are Grazia Equity's portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 02, 2020 | Mar 2004 | Series A | 1832 | |
Nov 21, 2019 | - | - | 8736 | |
Feb 10, 2014 | Jul 09, 2019 | Post IPO | 3976 | |
Feb 04, 2000 | - | - | 9924 |
Acquired companies in Grazia Equity's Portfolio
17 companies from Grazia Equity's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Inspekto in Feb 2024 by Siemens.Here are Grazia Equity's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 20, 2024 | Oct 15, 2018 | Series A | 7394 | |
Feb 01, 2024 | Jul 15, 2020 | Series A | 2798 | |
Jun 29, 2021 | Apr 24, 2007 | Series A | 8986 | |
Jan 10, 2020 | Apr 26, 2012 | Series A | 9505 | |
Mar 27, 2019 | Nov 20, 2007 | Series B | 1446 |
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Team profile of Grazia Equity
Grazia Equity has a team of 7 members including 2 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 2 Principals located in Germany and United Kingdom. Grazia Equity's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Grazia Equity:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Stuttgart | - | ||
Partner | Germany | - | ||
Venture Partner | London | - | - | |
Principal | Germany | - | ||
Principal | Germany | - |
Co-investors of Grazia Equity
Over the past 26 years, 259 investors have co-invested in Grazia Equity's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Grazia Equity: Samsung Venture Investment, USAA and 76 others have invested in rounds before Grazia Equity. There is 1 company where Samsung Venture Investment has invested before Grazia Equity and 1 company where USAA has invested before Grazia Equity.
- Top Co-investors of Grazia Equity: 90 investors entered a company along with Grazia Equity. These include investors like IP Group (2 companies).
- Invested after Grazia Equity: A total of 91 investors have invested in Grazia Equity's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Europa (3 companies), Kfw (2 companies) and Mountain Partners (2 companies).
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