Grazia Equity

Grazia Equity is a German investor in start-ups. It picks a handful of new investments each year and looks for entrepreneurs with very high ambitions. The firm says seven of its portfolio companies have reached unicorn status.

What Grazia Equity offers

• Selective investing — chooses a small number of new companies every year.
• Seed leadership — led the seed round of the materials company FACT in 1999.
• Industry contacts — used its automotive connections to help start series production at FACT.
• Founder support — works with teams through difficult periods, as in the case of Moviepilot.

Who it works with

Its case studies include FACT, which produced long-fibre reinforced materials and was later sold, and Moviepilot, a Berlin film discovery site that grew into a large publisher.

Key facts

• Language: Site content in German
• Portfolio examples: FACT and Moviepilot