{"id":15463,"date":"2024-01-02T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/2023-en\/2023-herausfordernd-aber-erfolgreich-fuer-bmt-und-unsere-investee-partner\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:51:51","slug":"2023-hard-fought-and-successful-for-bmt-and-our-investee-partners2023-herausfordernd-aber-erfolgreich-fuer-bmt-und-unsere-investee-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2024-en\/2023-hard-fought-and-successful-for-bmt-and-our-investee-partners2023-herausfordernd-aber-erfolgreich-fuer-bmt-und-unsere-investee-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 challenging but successful for bm|t and our Investee partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the per\u00adsis\u00adtently tense geopo\u00adlit\u00adi\u00adcal and increas\u00adingly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult macro\u00adeco\u00adnomic envi\u00adron\u00adment, the bm|t Investee part\u00adners secured over EUR 116 mil\u00adlion in equity and mez\u00adza\u00adnine cap\u00adi\u00adtal in 2023. The invest\u00adments were spread across 26 com\u00adpa\u00adnies in 39 invest\u00adment rounds. The funds man\u00adaged by bm|t pro\u00advided EUR 29.5 mil\u00adlion and the co-investors EUR 86.6 mil\u00adlion. In addi\u00adtion, bm|t had two suc\u00adcess\u00adful exits in 2023 with the sale of its stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2023-en\/bmt-sells-its-shares-in-bianogmp-to-euroapi\/\">BianoGMP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/portfolio\/secondsol\/\">Sec\u00adond\u00adSol<\/a>, both of which were acquired by excel\u00adlently suited com\u00adpany buyers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the mas\u00adsive decline in over\u00adall ven\u00adture cap\u00adi\u00adtal fund\u00ading in Ger\u00admany and most regions of the world, we are very pleased that we have been able to sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcantly increase the vol\u00adume of cap\u00adi\u00adtal raised by our Investee Part\u00adners. The fact that 21 of our investee part\u00adners have raised seven- or eight-fig\u00adure amounts shows the strength and breadth of our port\u00adfo\u00adlio, which has devel\u00adoped well in recent years,\u201d com\u00adments Kevin Reeder, CEO of bm|t. <\/p>\n<p>Another pos\u00adi\u00adtive sig\u00adnal for the future of ven\u00adture cap\u00adi\u00adtal financ\u00ading in Thuringia was the launch of three new invest\u00adment funds with a total vol\u00adume of over EUR 90 mil\u00adlion for invest\u00adments in inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies. The Thuringian Startup Fund II (TSFII), the Growth Invest\u00adment Fund II (WBFII) and the Thuringian Future Fund III (TZFIII) fit together well to ensure appro\u00adpri\u00adate and coor\u00addi\u00adnated financ\u00ading for high-per\u00adform\u00ading inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive com\u00adpa\u00adnies for many years to&nbsp;come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike almost all ven\u00adture cap\u00adi\u00adtal and pri\u00advate equity investors, we faced many head\u00adwinds and chal\u00adlenges last year. I am par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly proud that in these dif\u00adfi\u00adcult times, our out\u00adstand\u00ading investee part\u00adners, strong co-investors and the entire bm|t team worked tire\u00adlessly together to deliver a very suc\u00adcess\u00adful year in an extremely chal\u00adleng\u00ading envi\u00adron\u00adment,\u201d added Kevin Reeder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, bm|t Investee part\u00adners have secured over EUR 715 mil\u00adlion in equity and mez\u00adza\u00adnine invest\u00adments, with over EUR 154 mil\u00adlion invested by funds man\u00adaged by bm|t and over EUR 565 mil\u00adlion invested by other investors. Dur\u00ading this period, the funds man\u00adaged by bm|t achieved returns of over EUR 105 mil\u00adlion through more than 12 exits with invested cap\u00adi\u00adtal of around EUR 30 mil\u00adlion. Reeder con\u00adcludes: \u201cSev\u00aderal sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant and highly prof\u00aditable exits in recent years are clear proof that excel\u00adlent invest\u00adment returns can be achieved here in the Free State of Thuringia, which in our opin\u00adion remains sur\u00adpris\u00adingly under the radar of most investors.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About bm|t<\/h3>\n<p>bm\u2011t beteili\u00adgungs\u00adman\u00adage\u00adment th\u00fcrin\u00adgen (bm|t), based in Erfurt, is the first port of call for ven\u00adture cap\u00adi\u00adtal in Thuringia. bm|t cur\u00adrently man\u00adages twelve invest\u00adment funds with a total vol\u00adume of EUR 445 mil\u00adlion and invests in inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive, high-growth com\u00adpa\u00adnies in all sec\u00adtors and at all stages of the cor\u00adpo\u00adrate life&nbsp;cycle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bm|t Investee part\u00adners secured over EUR 116 mil\u00adlion in equity and mez\u00adza\u00adnine financ\u00ading in 39 invest\u00adment rounds in 2023. In addi\u00adtion to two very suc\u00adcess\u00adful exits, bm|t was also able to launch three new invest\u00adment funds with a total vol\u00adume of over EUR 90 mil\u00adlion for invest\u00adments in inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Thuringian companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[176,177,249,210,159,171],"class_list":["post-15463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-en","tag-bm-t-en","tag-bmt-en","tag-erfolgsgeschichte-en","tag-investeepartner","tag-investment-en","tag-thuringia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18200,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions\/18200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}