Burda Principal Investments

Burda Principal Investments a division of Hubert Burda Media, provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies. Hubert Burda Media is media and technology conglomerates with a strong investment track record in internet-centric businesses since 1998. They have been partners for visionary entrepreneurs, leveraging Burda’s capital, brands and sector expertise, particularly in the areas of business expansion, internationalization and localization. They are invested in a portfolio of highly successful consumer internet companies in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. In the past, Hubert Burda Media has invested in internet platforms such as Etsy, zooplus, HolidayCheck, or Xing AG. BPI is run by a dedicated team of investment professionals based in Munich, Berlin, London and Singapore.

Alejandra Otero Arenzana

Investment Manager

Clare McCartney Beer

COO

Tim Cheah

Investment Associate

Julian Eckartsberg

Managing Director, Europe

Neil Fong

Managing Director

Frank, Luisa

Investments Associate

John Greger

CPO and Portfolio Partner

Thomas Juvin

Principal

Sophie Luck

Investment Associate

Edwin Mak

Investment Associate

Laura Moeller

Investment Manager

Francesco Moro

Principal

Vincent Rose

Investment Associate

William Sarjant

Investment Associate

Natalie Schmitke

Principal

Christian Teichmann

Managing Director and CEO

Townsend, Amelia

Principal

Friedrich von Wulffen

Principal

52 past transactions

Nord Security

Venture Round in 2022
Nord Security operates as an internet privacy and security provider for individuals and businesses. Its product portfolio includes its NordVPN offering and its Surfshark consumer line of solutions.

Zapp

Series B in 2022
Zapp provides on-demand delivery services. It is building the future of convenience with a full-stack approach to on-demand essential items, 24/7, delivered in minutes. It is backed by the worlds leading investors and our team has scale-up and exit experience at companies such as Amazon, Jumia, Deliveroo, Tesco, Stuart, and Just Eat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Kent, United Kingdom.

BillEase

Series B in 2022
BillEase offers applications that split customers' payments into interest-bearing installments. The company also provides in-app services like personal loans, mobile loads, gaming credits, and e-wallet top-ups. Users can purchase goods and services online and split their payments into installments. The service is designed to provide a more flexible payment option for customers who prefer to spread the cost of their purchases over time without incurring high-interest fees typically associated with credit cards.

ARIVE

Series A in 2022
Established in 2021 and founded in the heart of Paris, ARIVE is revolutionizing the world of shopping. The ARIVE App, a seamless blend of luxury and convenience, brings the very best of fashion, beauty, lifestyle, design, and premium brands directly to your fingertips, all within mere hours. The discerning selection of products is sourced from the most esteemed brands and is delivered with uncompromising attention to the highest standards of excellence. ARIVE prioritizes sustainability in all operations. Every order is delivered using 100% sustainable vehicles, rendering traditional transportation methods obsolete. Shop with ARIVE and directly support the long-term success of your local stores, while experiencing the ultimate in high-end shopping. ARIVE is built by people from countries all over the world and benefits from its multinational approach. The company is backed by some of the world’s best VCs, including Balderton Capital, La Famiglia, 468 Capital, BPI and TPC.

Oddbox

Corporate Round in 2021
Oddbox is London's first and only wonky and surplus veg box delivery scheme. Oddbox is a social impact business fighting food waste in UK’s farms with innovative solutions and our first solution is London’s first wonky fruit and veg box scheme. We buy fresh, wonky & surplus produce for a fair price directly from local farms and markets and deliver them in a weekly subscription box scheme to South London's homes and Central London's offices at 30% cheaper than similar box services. We donate 10% of our produce to charities that fight food poverty

Felmo

Venture Round in 2021
Felmo offers various veterinary services conveniently and stress-free at your home for your pets.

Bloom & Wild

Series D in 2021
Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.

WaitWhat

Series B in 2021
WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

Matera

Series B in 2021
We make the life of co-owners easy !

Vinted

Series F in 2021
Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Recount Media

Series B in 2021
Recount Media is a fast-growing startup focused on high quality journalism and short form video with a simple mission; No Bullshit, No Bad Faith, In 5 minutes or Less. Our flagship show, The Daily Recount, is a daily recap that remixes television news to tell you the stories that matter in politics without wasting your time or insulting your intelligence. We are building a radically new media platform across mobile apps and the web that will change the way news is consumed.

Zapp

Series A in 2021
Zapp provides on-demand delivery services. It is building the future of convenience with a full-stack approach to on-demand essential items, 24/7, delivered in minutes. It is backed by the worlds leading investors and our team has scale-up and exit experience at companies such as Amazon, Jumia, Deliveroo, Tesco, Stuart, and Just Eat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Kent, United Kingdom.

Bloom & Wild

Series D in 2021
Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.

Carsome

Series D in 2020
Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

HungryPanda

Series C in 2020
HungryPanda is a food delivery platform that offers authentic Asian cuisine, catering primarily to Chinese communities living abroad. With its business footprint in more than 60 major cities across the UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, and so on, HungryPanda is the global leader in delivering Chinese food and groceries with extensive market coverage, the highest user traffic as well as annual transaction volumes. The success is built upon a large vertical with specialized needs and underpinned by its operational efficiency and proprietary technology. For HungryPanda, customers are always at the center of its business and the company is committed to offering one-stop-shop solutions for overseas Chinese. The interface design of HungryPanda APP is highly in line with end users’ preferences and it has built an efficient distribution system to create an advanced food and retail ecosystem.

Skillshare

Series D in 2020
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

StashAway

Series C in 2020
StashAway is a wealth management platform design to build and protect your wealth. It personalizes financial planning and portfolio management for the vast range of needs of retail and accredited investors alike. Its risk-management investment strategy, ERAA® (Economic Regime-based Asset Allocation), is designed to maximize clients’ long-term returns while keeping each individual customer’s specific risk exposure constant through changing economic cycles.

The Female Company

Venture Round in 2020
The Female Company builds Europe's leading femcare platform from first period to menopause. By combining education, the largest community (>500k follower) with organic & sustainable solutions, they became the number one period d2c brand in DACH. Recent award-winning campaigns: www.tamponbook.com www.onegirlonecup.de

Pelago

Series A in 2020
Pelago, formerly Quit Genius, is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opportunities for positive change to members struggling with substance use, most commonly tobacco, alcohol, or opioids. Our solution gives employers the means to offer on-demand, personalized support to workers seeking to live healthier lives. Pelago’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs deliver convenient, accessible, and effective support that seamlessly integrates with health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and wellness platforms. To date, Pelago has helped more than 750,000 members manage their substance use and improve their lives.

Recount Media

Series A in 2020
Recount Media is a fast-growing startup focused on high quality journalism and short form video with a simple mission; No Bullshit, No Bad Faith, In 5 minutes or Less. Our flagship show, The Daily Recount, is a daily recap that remixes television news to tell you the stories that matter in politics without wasting your time or insulting your intelligence. We are building a radically new media platform across mobile apps and the web that will change the way news is consumed.

Vinted

Series E in 2019
Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Miinto

Venture Round in 2019
Miinto is an online fashion platform founded in 2009 that connects independent fashion boutiques and brands across Europe. Based in Copenhagen, the company operates in seven European markets, including Norway, Sweden, and Poland, and has grown rapidly to become one of Scandinavia's leading eCommerce businesses. Miinto features over 600 retailers, offering a diverse range of products to online shoppers. The platform emphasizes a sustainable fashion industry and aims to enhance the omnichannel shopping experience by leveraging digital technologies to reconnect consumers with local retailers. Miinto's team consists of skilled specialists in IT, digital marketing, and customer experience, all dedicated to creating a personalized and inspiring shopping experience for its customers.

Hmlet

Series B in 2019
Hmlet Pte. Ltd. is a co-living company that focuses on providing shared and short-term accommodation primarily for international tech professionals. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, Hmlet has expanded its operations to include locations in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. The company offers a range of rental options, including master, regular, and pocket rooms, as well as full apartments. Hmlet aims to simplify housing for individuals relocating or living in these cities, fostering a sense of community by organizing monthly events such as yoga classes and networking sessions. It also manages property-related issues on behalf of landlords, ensuring that residents have a secure and comfortable living environment.

Miinto

Venture Round in 2019
Miinto is an online fashion platform founded in 2009 that connects independent fashion boutiques and brands across Europe. Based in Copenhagen, the company operates in seven European markets, including Norway, Sweden, and Poland, and has grown rapidly to become one of Scandinavia's leading eCommerce businesses. Miinto features over 600 retailers, offering a diverse range of products to online shoppers. The platform emphasizes a sustainable fashion industry and aims to enhance the omnichannel shopping experience by leveraging digital technologies to reconnect consumers with local retailers. Miinto's team consists of skilled specialists in IT, digital marketing, and customer experience, all dedicated to creating a personalized and inspiring shopping experience for its customers.

The Female Company

Seed Round in 2019
The Female Company builds Europe's leading femcare platform from first period to menopause. By combining education, the largest community (>500k follower) with organic & sustainable solutions, they became the number one period d2c brand in DACH. Recent award-winning campaigns: www.tamponbook.com www.onegirlonecup.de

Rockets of Awesome

Series C in 2019
Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

WaitWhat

Series A in 2019
WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

Zilingo

Series D in 2019
Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone. By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.

Kukua

Seed Round in 2018
Our entertainment and technology platform creates magical learning experiences for children and families, centred around a universe of proprietary characters. We are the creators of the Super Sema franchise, brought to life through animated series, apps and toys.

Bloom & Wild

Series C in 2018
Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.

Skillshare

Series C in 2018
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Zilingo

Series C in 2018
Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone. By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.

nebenan.de

Series A in 2018
Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.

Carsome

Series B in 2018
Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Rockets of Awesome

Series B in 2017
Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

Zilingo

Series B in 2017
Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone. By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.

M.Gemi

Series C in 2017
M.Gemi is a new kind of luxury brand handcrafting shoes in the most well-regarded, family-owned artisan factories across Italy. M.Gemi introduces new, limited edition styles every week, and sells directly to consumers, which allows us to offer our shoes at surprisingly attainable prices. They believe that old-world luxury craftsmanship is perfect. But they also believe a revolution is in order. It’s why they’re doing things differently – starting with shoes.

Bloom & Wild

Series B in 2017
Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about. Founded in 2013 by Aron Gelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.

SHOWROOM

Venture Round in 2016
SHOWROOM is a platform gathering carefully selected independent fashion brands and designers from CEE region. Each product available in SHOWROOM has been approved by the experienced team to bring top shopping experience to customers.

Priceza

Series B in 2016
Priceza is the leading Product Search Engine and Price Comparison shopping site in SEA currently operating in 6 countries: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Vietnam with over 5 Million shoppers using Priceza every month. The service helps consumers to compare prices from the most comprehensive online shopping stores attracting millions of consumers to Search for Products, Compare Prices, and then Priceza drives Real Buyers back to the stores of merchants. Their Mission is to provide the most useful information about shopping to consumers anywhere in the world.

Notonthehighstreet

Series E in 2016
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

nebenan.de

Venture Round in 2016
Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.

Blitsy

Series B in 2016
Blitsy is where creative people shop online. It aims to provide the best selection, value, inspiration, and online shopping experience for creative people worldwide. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

BaubleBar

Series C in 2016
BaubleBar is changing how women shop for fashion jewelry. By offering on-trend styles and contextualizing them with strong editorial references, the company is quickly becoming the first go-to retailer within the $22bn fashion jewelry industry. BaubleBar’s core differentiating factor is its fast speed to market, recognized through its unique sourcing capabilities. The company leverages this by using real-time data to merchandise and design based on current market dynamics and consumer taste preferences. Coupling this with the high-touch customer experience and strong social media reach, BaubleBar is redefining how women think of fashion jewelry brands. BaubleBar (formerly Eight1Six) was founded by Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky in 2010 and has raised $15.6 million in equity financing to date. The Company most recently raised $10 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Burch Creative Capital, the investment firm headed by retail and fashion veteran Chris Burch. Other leading investors in the Company include Accel Partners, Greycroft Partners, Aspect Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Founder Collective, and Lerer Media Ventures.

Miinto

Venture Round in 2016
Miinto is an online fashion platform founded in 2009 that connects independent fashion boutiques and brands across Europe. Based in Copenhagen, the company operates in seven European markets, including Norway, Sweden, and Poland, and has grown rapidly to become one of Scandinavia's leading eCommerce businesses. Miinto features over 600 retailers, offering a diverse range of products to online shoppers. The platform emphasizes a sustainable fashion industry and aims to enhance the omnichannel shopping experience by leveraging digital technologies to reconnect consumers with local retailers. Miinto's team consists of skilled specialists in IT, digital marketing, and customer experience, all dedicated to creating a personalized and inspiring shopping experience for its customers.

Vinted

Series C in 2015
Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Coc Coc

Venture Round in 2015
Coc Coc is a search engine customized for Vietnamese people. It provides users with local services and information that are not strengths of giant search engines like Google. Besides the ability of understanding Vietnamese language, Coc Coc has the database of hundred thousand places in the country. When an user types “café Hanoi”, Coc Coc search results will display café shops in Hanoi with detailed information (image, address, phone number, map, etc) for his choice. Conceived in 2010, Coc Coc was officially launched at the end of 2012. It’s powered up by highly-qualified expatriates from Vietnam and Russia. Along with multi-million dollar in investment, Coc Coc aims to change the dominance of Google and internet future in Vietnam. If you don’t speak Vietnamese, you still may feel the strength of Coc Coc. Try to type “legend beer hoan kiem”, press 360 button and you’ll be surprised at result. http://coccoc.com/

SHOWROOM

Venture Round in 2012
SHOWROOM is a platform gathering carefully selected independent fashion brands and designers from CEE region. Each product available in SHOWROOM has been approved by the experienced team to bring top shopping experience to customers.

Etsy

Series F in 2012
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Etsy

Series E in 2010
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Etsy

Series D in 2008
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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