Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on empowering entrepreneurs globally. The firm is stage agnostic, investing in companies across various sectors, including internet, software, fintech, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Global Founders Capital typically invests in the equity of young technology companies, with a preference for startups located in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, Europe, the United States, and China. Investment amounts range from €0.01 million to €10 million, with specific allocations varying by stage: seed investments typically between €0.1 million and €1 million, early-stage investments between €1 million and €3 million, and growth-stage investments between €3 million and €8 million. The firm often seeks to be the lead investor and aims to secure board representation in its portfolio companies.

Marc Samwer

Co-Founder & Advisor

Oliver Samwer

Co-Founder & Investor

AutoLeap

Seed Round in 2020

AutoLeap Incorporated develops a software platform that enables automotive repair shops to organize operations, schedule jobs, conduct digital inspections, manage technicians, and invoice customers. Its platform streamlines the workflow, collects payments, and displays performance data. AutoLeap Incorporated was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Another Brain

Venture Round in 2018

Another Brain, SA develops and manufactures bio-inspired chipset for for artificial intelligence and robotics. The company's chipsets enables autonomous, unsupervised data extraction and embedded pattern recognition and processing without resorting to an external database, detection and storage of many patterns per chipset, and learning by previously encountered crossing patterns. It also provides software tools to prepare the integration of chipsets and perform simulations at users end. The company's solutions application caters to industries such as smart sensors including Internet of things (IoT), smart cars, smart home, robotics, drones, security, biometrics, defense and data servers, and datacenter optimization. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Paris, France.