Born Capital

Born Capital, founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California, is a specialized venture capital firm focused on financing early-stage startups. The firm primarily targets companies in the fintech, big data, cloud, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation sectors. Born Capital aims to invest between $100,000 and $500,000 in pre-seed deals, often seeking to be the sole investor. The firm prides itself on its ability to identify startups with high potential, particularly those led by passionate and determined founders who have demonstrated early traction. Managed by a full-time general partner with extensive entrepreneurial experience and a strong network of advisors, Born Capital leverages its industry knowledge to support innovative solutions in finance transformation.

Wouter Born

Managing Partner

Marcel Vlug

Chairman of the Investment Committee

17 past transactions

Pluto

Seed Round in 2025
Pluto is the most comprehensive & powerful corporate card and spend management platform built for MENA businesses. From small businesses to the largest multi-national group holdings, businesses such as Property Finder, Knight Frank and Swissport have trusted Pluto with all of their non-payroll spending. Pluto combines the power of getting access to instant issuance unlimited corporate cards, full end-to-end reimbursements, petty cash & account payables management all within one platform. No more chasing for receipts, manually approving invoices on long e-mail threads or sharing one corporate card with several people. Pluto's enterprise platform brings control back to complex finance and accounting business processes and creates a streamlined approach to controlling your company's spending.

Dost

Seed Round in 2024
Dost is a software as a service company that automates the processing of supplier documents, including invoices, delivery notes and supplier orders, using artificial intelligence and intelligent process automation. The platform targets mid-size to large companies with high invoice volumes, helping finance teams such as CFOs and finance managers improve data-entry accuracy, reduce processing time, and lower administrative costs by automating data entry to ERP or accounting systems and by implementing automated approval workflows.

Puzzle Financial

Series A in 2023
Puzzle Financial is a stealth mode SaaS startup focused on developing core accounting software designed to improve financial decision-making for startups. The platform aims to create a scalable foundation that supports fundraising, tax management, and real-time insights into overall business health. By transforming traditional accounting practices into a system of financial intelligence, Puzzle Financial enables startups to enhance their financial performance and gain greater trust and confidence in their financial operations.

Jirav

Series B in 2023
Jirav is a cloud-based financial forecasting and analysis platform that connects financial and operational data to enable planning, reporting, and scenario analysis. The software lets users explore historical operations and forecast bookings, revenues, headcount, expenses, and cash flows, while providing plan versus actual views and rolling forecasts. It supports interactive reports, data visualization, and easy sharing to align teams across departments. The platform offers templates to help build accurate budgets and forecasts, and is designed for finance teams, accounting firms, and business leaders who need rapid deployment of a corporate planning and analytics function. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Jirav positions itself as FP&A as a Service, delivering powerful analysis, reporting, and forecasting capabilities to enable fast, informed decision making.

Aimplan

Seed Round in 2023
Aimplan is a next-generation provider of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) software solutions that enhances the Microsoft Power BI platform. The company specializes in offering a service as a software platform aimed at improving the financial management capabilities of organizations. Aimplan's offerings include features such as planning, forecasting, financial reporting, and master data management. By leveraging existing Power BI models, Aimplan enables organizations to refine their financial planning processes, enhance forecasting accuracy, and improve reporting efficiency, ultimately supporting better decision-making in financial management.

Invopop

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Invopop simplifies international invoicing for software companies. It offers an API that records sales, converts them into compliant invoices, and reports them to the appropriate tax authorities in the correct format.

OnPlan

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2016, OnPlan develops software that enables businesses to forecast budgets, track key performance indicators (KPIs), create dashboards, and collaborate with teams. Its platform synchronizes with popular tools like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, offering features such as Budget versus Actual tracking, pre-made modules for sales, marketing, and staffing, what-if scenario analysis, role-based permissions, and company performance overviews.

TrueRev

Pre Seed Round in 2022
TrueRev is a subscription‑management platform that helps small and medium‑sized businesses automate billing, renewals, revenue recognition, and financial reporting. By connecting CRM and ERP systems, it centralizes customer data, reduces manual entry, and eliminates communication gaps between sales, finance, and operations. The solution streamlines subscription processing, improves accuracy, and provides a single source of truth for revenue, enabling companies to avoid costly mistakes and focus on growth.

Glean AI

Seed Round in 2022
Glean AI is a New York-based company that provides an all-in-one spend management solution tailored for small and mid-market businesses. Utilizing advanced artificial intelligence, Glean analyzes expense drivers and delivers line-item level insights that are frequently overlooked by finance teams and budget owners. Its platform combines smart automation with spending intelligence, empowering finance teams to identify significant savings opportunities. By streamlining financial processes, Glean enables companies to expedite invoice payments and reduce manual workload, thereby enhancing overall financial efficiency.

Hudson Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Hudson Labs is software that extracts hard-to-find information in a public company filing like annual reports.

Synder

Seed Round in 2021
Synder is a cloud-based accounting platform tailored for e-commerce and SaaS businesses, specializing in automating financial management and accounting processes. Founded in 2016, the company has experienced rapid growth, processing over one billion dollars in transactions in 2020 alone and assisting more than 20,000 businesses. Synder's software integrates seamlessly with multiple sales channels, including Shopify, Amazon, and PayPal, allowing for efficient bookkeeping, accounts reconciliation, and detailed reporting, such as Profit & Loss statements and balance sheets. The platform is recognized for its high-quality software and customer support, achieving over 1,000 five-star reviews on various review platforms by the end of 2020. Synder continues to expand its offerings by adding new e-commerce integrations and features each month, including Smart Rules and support for multicurrency transactions, positioning itself as a comprehensive solution for businesses with high volumes of online transactions.

Keeper

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Keeper is a software company that develops tools designed to assist bookkeepers in managing their clients' back-office operations more efficiently. The company's flagship app streamlines the month-end closing process by integrating functionalities such as a client portal, task management, file quality assurance, and management reporting. This all-in-one solution aims to enhance the workflow and productivity of bookkeepers, ultimately leading to improved financial management for their clients.

Doublefin

Seed Round in 2021
Doublefin is a collaborative platform for people management and planning, designed for people teams, finance business partners, and budget owners. It provides headcount tracking, budget planning, finance workflows, spend analytics, and hiring insights along with intuitive management workflows, enabling organizations to leverage hiring data and analytics to inform planning and growth.

KPI Sense

Seed Round in 2021
KPI Sense offers B2B SaaS financial reporting solutions for startups. It aggregates, optimizes, and reports data to help SaaS companies create and share their financial story. Its tools simplify data collection and analysis by gathering information from various sources and organizing it into comprehensive, easy-to-understand summaries.

Bluelight

Seed Round in 2021
Bluelight is a financial data platform designed to support high-performing startups and home service contractors by automating financial data collection and categorization. The platform addresses the challenge of fragmented financial data, providing users with tools for financial analysis and benchmarking. It offers features such as revenue projections, pace reporting, and variance analysis, which enable users to gain real-time insights into their business performance. By integrating with popular contractor tools, Bluelight helps contractors identify areas for improvement and make informed, data-driven decisions to enhance revenue and expand their customer base.

OnPlan

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2016, OnPlan develops software that enables businesses to forecast budgets, track key performance indicators (KPIs), create dashboards, and collaborate with teams. Its platform synchronizes with popular tools like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, offering features such as Budget versus Actual tracking, pre-made modules for sales, marketing, and staffing, what-if scenario analysis, role-based permissions, and company performance overviews.

Skopos.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cyber security has grown old and is ready for disruption. Two key questions come to mind on any organization when it comes to cyber security. First, how vulnerable are we against attacks from professional hackers and script kiddies? Second, what must we do to stay safe? Two important questions. 60% of med-sized businesses experienced a cyber-attack in 2018. Of those attacks, 4 in 5 evade antivirus software. Yet, the majority of medium-sized businesses rely on anti-virus, firewalls and Windows policies like requiring a password. This is clearly not sufficient. Cyber risks are correlated; you cannot separate a vulnerable laptop from the employee or the credentials that are out there on the dark web. Hackers exploit a weakness in a user to get a foothold on a laptop in order to get access to confidential data. For this reason: we believe that to protect an organization, a holistic approach is required. An approach that focusses on employee, websites, devices and organization. The CISO or CTO should have a quick answer to basic clients. For example: How much effort does it take a hacker to breach us? What is the risk of ransomware attacks? What data of our company has been exposed to criminals? How do we perform compared to peers? Skopos helps to answer these questions in real time. We detect the weakest link in your chain by smart pairing of humans and machines. Skopos is the future of cyber security
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