Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 25. April 2024 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://www.bmp.com/en/ (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save Preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
bmp Ventures AG
Schlüterstraße 38
10629 Berlin
Germany
Website: https://www.bmp.com/en/
Email: info@bmp.com
Phone number: +49 (0)30 2030 50
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We invest venture capital in outstanding teams with innovative business models – We empower Tech Companies.
Since 1997 we have been the partner in crime for early-stage and growth startups.
25 years of venture capital experience meets innovation: 11 funds, over 250 investments, 120 exits and more than 20 IPOs.
In addition to providing our portfolio companies with financial resources, founders benefit from our team’s experience and international network. We are the strategic advisor at their side – from seed phase to exit.
We go the extra mile for our founders.
We are prepared to do everything possible to drive highly innovative business models forward. As a committed, proactive investor we are always at the side of our currently more than 50 portfolio companies. Both in times of rapid growth as well as in crisis situations.
We work together with outstanding founders.
We invest in innovative and scalable companies, often as lead investor and with investments starting from 350,000 EUR. Our sweet spot is between EUR 1.5-3 million per financing round, with total investments of up to EUR 10 million.
You would like to partner with one of the most experienced venture capital investors in Germany?
We are always happy to exchange ideas with startups, investors, and strategic partners. The investment process for your venture starts with the pitch deck.
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Do you want to support ambitious founders in turning their ideas into reality?
We offer you one of the most exciting and challenging jobs in a dynamic market environment and in a highly motivated team of 20 investment professionals. Your colleagues from controlling, legal and tax will provide you with the support you need to fulfill your tasks. We have very flat hierarchis and an open-door policy among the partners, so that decisions can always be made promptly.
Since 1997, we have been investing in exceptional founders and pioneering technologies. We are driven by the urge to constantly challenge and improve the status quo.
100% commitment. Our philosophy is to always support our portfolio companies and shoulder their entrepreneurial challenges together.
In 25 years we have managed 10 VC funds. Our track record comprises well over 250 investments, over 120 exits and more than 20 IPOs.
Our portfolio companies benefit from our extensive network of entrepreneurs, industry partners and co-investors such as business angels, venture capital firms, family offices, and state and development banks.
With our investment strategy we focus on committed entrepreneurs with big ideas who want to build innovative companies in growing markets. After investing, we strengthen all essential elements of our investments, and see ourselves as sparring partners for the further development of the company.
Our goal is to invest in dynamically growing companies, in order to develop them sustainably and to achieve a sound return for our investors.
We invest in innovative companies in the following industries: Digital Solutions, Life Sciences & eHealth, Industry & Deeptech, Media & Gaming, Cleanteach & Planet Positive, Mobility & Automotive, FinTech & LegalTech.
Our investments per company start at 350,000 EUR in seed financing rounds. In early-stage financing rounds we invest between 500,000 and 3 million EUR, while we can provide a total of up to 10 million EUR per company.
250 +
Investments
120 +
Exits
4
Current funds
20 +
IPOs
€ 160 M+
Total fund volume
Early Stage/ Growth
Investment phase
50 +
Active portfolio companies
Our investment decisions are not driven by the obsessive search for the next unicorn.
01
Professional
For many of our portfolio companies, we are the first institutional investor. We finance acceleration to achieve notable company goals and provide liquidity for at least 18 months.
02
Flexible
We invest alone as lead investor or together with co-investors, some of which are part of our extensive network.
03
Persevering
We usually invest not just once, but over several financing rounds, adapting to an individual company’s growth. This enables us to build up a healthy and economically sustainable company over time.
04
Customized
The average holding period of our investments is 6 years, but can be over 10 years depending on the technology.
In 25 years we have managed 11 VC funds.
As a professional partner, we have taken on mandates for various fund investors, including KfW Bankengruppe, König & Cie., and the German federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.
1997
bmp media investors AG
1998
bmp Venture Tech GmbH
1999
Central & Eastern Europe Venture GmbH
2005
König & Cie. International Private Equity GmbH & Co. KG
2007
König & Cie. II International Private Equity GmbH & Co. KG
2010
BFB Frühphasenfonds Brandenburg GmbH
2015
IBG Innovationsfonds GmbH & Co. KG (Vintage 2007)
2015
IBG Risikokapitalfonds I GmbH & Co. KG (Vintage 2007)
2015
IBG Risikokapitalfonds II GmbH & Co. KG (Vintage 2007)
2017
IBG Risikokapitalfonds III GmbH & Co. KG
2023
IBG Risikokapitalfonds IV GmbH & Co. KG
We recognise the increasing importance of ESG principles and aim to address them more intensively in the future.
We see ESG criteria as an integral part of our business and are committed to continuously strengthening our environmental, social and governance efforts and ensuring that our ESG measures are in line with our corporate objectives and long-term strategy.
Ecology
We actively contribute to the reduction of operational CO2 emissions and have been CO2 neutral since October 2022. We calculate our CO2 footprint via the non-profit organisation Prima Klima e.V. and offset it by reforesting forests. In addition, we have financed the planting of more than 1.000 trees to date, some of which we carry out ourselves in Brandenburg.
An environmentally conscious way of working is very important to us at bmp Ventures. We promote this by providing bicycles as pool vehicles for the short business trips of our employees at both locations. Train journeys by our employees are subsidised with a Bahn-Card 50 or – for very intensive use – with a Bahn-Card 100. We encourage our employees to make inner-city journeys by public transport or bicycle. In 2023, one business flight was undertaken whose CO2 emissions were completely offset. Company cars and pool vehicles are gradually being converted to hybrid or battery-electric drives. Our goal is to reduce service delivery by 5% annually.
Social field
At bmp, we promote a diverse employee structure and create the framework to ensure that differences in employees, especially by gender, age and disability, are taken into account fairly. We are a founding member of the #startupdiversity initiative of the Startup Verband.
We design all personnel processes to be non-discriminatory and do not tolerate discrimination. Since our founding, the quota of women at bmp has been similarly high and is currently 42%. We also pay attention to equal pay and strengthen the work-life balance by offering the possibility to work in a home office and flexible working hours. We also offer regular further training, such as foreign language courses with private teachers, IT courses or further training in the respective specialist area of the employees.
Governance
We attach great importance to transparent and responsible corporate governance. Therefore, we have established clear rules of conduct and guidelines for our employees and partners. All employees and partners are obliged to submit a declaration on private shareholdings, supervisory and advisory board mandates, data protection, money laundering prevention procedures and the bmp Code of Conduct.
Among other things, employees and partners are not permitted – with the exception of listed investments that are not portfolio companies (up to 5% of the share capital) – to invest in companies, conduct business with investees or accept benefits without prior review by the compliance officer.
bmp has a functioning internal control system that was audited and endorsed by an independent auditor after its implementation.
We strive to ensure that our company always complies with the highest standards of corporate governance and that our employees and partners observe the rules and regulations relating to management and compliance.
Objectives and Monitoring
Our goal is to continuously improve and expand our ESG activities. To ensure this, we will regularly review our ESG measures and develop new measures as needed. In addition, we will also advocate ESG principles in our portfolio companies and support them in implementing their own ESG measures.
We will consider the implementation of ESG criteria at all stages of our investment process and network with other investors and organisations to share our experiences and best practices.