Lightrock

LGT Lightstone is an impact investing initiative to build a global multi-billion dollar direct investing platform focused on scalable businesses that provide access to improved livelihoods, information and services for underserved consumers around the world or promote sustainable resource utilization.

André Aubert

Partner and Co-Head of Secondaries

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Marcel ter Bals

CFO

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Werner von Baum

Managing Partner

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Franziska Blindow

Principal of Hedge Funds

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Maximilian Brönner

Managing Partner

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Jürg Burkhard

Former VP

Douglas Coulter

Partner

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Marco Ferrari

Associate

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Pius Fritschi

Managing Partner

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Roger Gauch

Managing Partner

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Sascha Graf

Partner

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Sascha Gruber

Partner

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Martha Heitmann

Partner

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Anthony Hong

Principal

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Cem Meric

Former Principal

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Wolfgang Mueller

Partner

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Stefan Mühlemann

Partner of Hedge Funds

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Raphael Paglia

Executive Director

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Walter Pfaff

Managing Partner

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Robert Schlachter

Partner and Head of Investment Controlling Team

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Tycho Sneyers

Managing Partner

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Ivan Vercoutère

Managing Partner

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Sivendran Vettivetpillai

CEO

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Thomas Weber

Managing Partner

91 past transactions

WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.

Capital Float

Venture Round in 2021
Capital Float is an online platform that provides working capital finance to SMEs in India. It offers flexible, short-term loans that can be used to purchase inventory, service new orders or optimize cash cycles. Borrowers can apply online in minutes, select desired repayment terms and receive funds in their bank accounts in 7 days with minimal hassle. Capital Float was founded in 2013 by Gaurav Hinduja and Sashank Rishyasringa.

Satispay S.p.A.

Series C in 2020
Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly to the consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.

NiYO Solutions

Series C in 2022
NiYO is a fintech company that helps salaried employees access company benefits and other financial services. Founded in 2015, NiYO partners with companies (employers) and banks to offer employees the opportunity to access their benefits, such as healthcare or food allowances, through a digital platform. That includes a mobile app for submitting claims, and the option of a credit card.

Kebony

Venture Round in 2021
Kebony AS, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and supplies tropical hardwood products under the Kebony brand name . The company offers cladding, decking, roofing, construction, and rough sawn products, as well as accessories. Its products are used in residential, public, commercial, landscape, and marine applications. The company serves architects, builders, building professionals, builders' merchants, and yacht builders. Kebony AS was formerly known as Wood Polymer Technologies ASA and changed its name to Kebony AS in 2007. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Oslo, Norway with additional offices in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It has production facilities in Skien, Norway; and Flanders, Belgium.

Smartcoin

Series A in 2020
SmartCoin is a mobile app based lending platform, capable of assessing the risk profile of a prospective borrower in real time, using data science and machine learning algorithms. Their proprietary credit underwriting engine aggregates thousands of data points on a customer’s smartphone to build a customized credit score. A customer is instantly offered personalized loan products on the basis of his risk and capacity, and the money is transferred digitally to their bank account.
WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.
CMR Surgical is to make minimal access surgery available to all. With Versius they have delivered a next-generation tool to fit seamlessly into today’s operating rooms, working in harmony with the surgeon to improve patient outcomes and deliver value for healthcare providers.
Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages.

Chalo

Venture Round in 2022
Chalo is a free app that tracks ‍‍‍buses live and tells you what time your bus will reach your stop. Now you never have to wait at a bus stop ever again.

M-KOPA

Private Equity Round in 2023
M-KOPA Kenya Limited develops and markets solar home systems. It offers solar systems with three lights, phone charging, and a solar powered radio. The company sells its products through dealers and retail shops in Kenya. It offers M-KOPA 5, KOPA 6, KOPA 600, and KOPA 6000. M-KOPA Kenya Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. M-KOPA Kenya Limited operates as a subsidiary of M-Kopa, LLC.

Dunzo Digital Private Limited

Venture Round in 2022
Dunzo Digital Private Limited operates a daily tasks management app dunzo. Its services include groceries and essentials, fruits and vegetables, send packages, meat and fish, food delivery, medicines, pet supplies, health and wellness, bike pool, and gifts and lifestyle delivery services. The company provide its services in Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, and Mumbai. Dunzo Digital Private Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.

Etagen

Series E in 2022
EtaGen, Inc. provides power generation services. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Alasco

Series B in 2022
Alasco supports project controllers and developers through automated workflows and the availability of financial data placed in a central information source. This increases the productivity of the participants. This method also decreases the probability of errors, assures comprehensive transparency, and faster decision-making.

Creditas

Series F in 2022
Creditas is a financial technology company, operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

Medi Buddy

Series C in 2022
MediBuddy is the award-winning technology platform from Medi Assist that transforms the health insurance industry at the very core. MediBuddy, with its diverse offerings for various stakeholders of the health benefits industry, makes the process of discovering, accessing, utilizing and monitoring health benefits seamless, real-time and virtually paperless. Here is how MediBuddy addresses the varying needs of the diverse stakeholders in the health benefits ecosystem: • Members: MediBuddy is a comprehensive one-stop health benefits management platform that gives members access to inpatient, outpatient, wellness, fitness and preventive care services offered by our curated network of healthcare providers. Accessible both as an online portal as well as a mobile app, MediBuddy gives members unparalleled, real-time access to all their health benefits anytime and from anywhere. • Corporate HR: Individual logins for HR members provide them a transparent view of everyday claims management. The dashboard gives real-time information about claims in process, settled, denied, etc., and also allows HR members to raise, track or manage claims on behalf of their employees. • Insurers and decision makers: MediBuddy offers near-real-time MIS report of all critical parameters that allows for comparative study across years and policies with ease. Our business analytics module packs the power of multiple pivot tables into simple drop-downs for deep, decisive insights into your portfolio. Simple, graphical representation of data enables easy comparison, trend mapping and predictive analysis. • Hospitals: Medi Assist network hospitals enjoy real-time access to all cashless claims with MediBuddy. From receiving alerts for planned eCashless hospitalization, to raising preauthorization, enhancement and final billing, and also dashboards to view total claims settled, in-process, etc., hospitals get all the information they need on one common interface.
Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages.

CredAvenue

Series B in 2022
CredAvenue is a fully integrated, unified digital platform that helps discover, trade, execute and fulfill debt solutions for investors.

BUGWORKS Research India

Series B in 2022
Bugworks Research Inc. manufactures antibiotics that can withstand drug resistance issues. It offers GYROX-1, an intravenous drug for critical care infections; GYROX-2, an oral solution for hospital and community infections; and GYROX-3, an oral drug for cystic fibrosis patients. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Saratoga, California with additional offices in Adelaide, Australia; and Bengaluru, India.

Conductor Tecnologia S.A.

Private Equity Round in 2022
Conductor is a leading next-gen payments processor and banking-as-a-service infrastructure provider in Latin America, enabling clients from a wide range of industries to offer payment solutions to their end customers. With its proprietary API-based digital processing platform, the company serves close to 250 corporate clients, processing over US20 bi annually from 29 million active and 80 million total end customer payment accounts and enabling the capture of payment transactions in more than 2.5 million points of sale throughout Latin America.

CueLearn/Cuemath

Venture Round in 2022
Cuemath is the only program which makes every aspect of learning maths engaging and comprehensive by using math worksheets and application-based technology under the supervision of trained and certified teachers.

Selina Finance

Series B in 2022
Trillions of pounds in value are locked up in UK homes, while at the same time, homeowners still rely on expensive consumer loans, credit cards, or overdrafts. The inflexible and archaic secured products are simply not serving customer needs for flexibility and affordability. With our experience in real estate, finance and technology, Selina is bringing together the best from different worlds to offer customers a next-generation financing option – a product that is as flexible as a current account, as affordable as a mortgage, and as easy to apply for as a consumer loan.

Click Diagnostics

Series E in 2022
Visby Medical is a diagnostics company that develops PCR-based diagnostic tests for the detection of infectious diseases. The company develops a device platform that aims to redefine the way an illness is tested and treated. They believe that by taking a human-centric, technology-first approach to device development and they can create tools that are both highly accurate and delightful to use.

CargoX

Series E in 2020
CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of Brazil. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers, increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road. CargoX was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Mobile Tulip

Series C in 2020
MessageBird is on a mission to modernize and simplify the overcomplicated space of customer communication. As the only leading cloud communications platform with its own telecommunications carrier infrastructure, MessageBird connects over 15,000 enterprises to their global customers via the fastest and most reliable SMS, Voice and Chat APIs in the world. Today MessageBird is powered by a world-class team of over 20 nationalities from offices in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, London, Hamburg, and Shanghai. In October 2017 MessageBird announced a $60M Series A funding led by Accel, marking the largest Series A raised by any European software company or Y Combinator graduate to date.

Copia Global

Series C in 2022
Copia Global Inc. provides an e-commerce application that enables users to browse products and place orders with the local shopkeepers. The company’s application enables shopkeepers to order products for customers and make payments for the ordered products through a mobile payment system. Copia Global Inc. was formerly known as TTJL Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Agrevolution

Series D in 2021
Green Agrevolution Pvt. Ltd. engages in distribution of agri-inputs, collection of agri-produce, and provides crop advisory. It offers DeHaat, an online marketplace and application, which provides farm products and services; electronic weighing and daily price display; processing and logistics solution; soil health management, crop selection, and crop monitoring. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Patna, India.

Dataiku

Series E in 2021
DATAIKU SAS provides a software platform for data applications. It offers Data Science Studio, a software platform that aggregates the steps and big data tools necessary to get from raw data to production ready applications. The company’s Data Science Studio enables companies to build their data lab and start extracting value from their data. Its application is accessible to data scientists and business analysts. DATAIKU SAS was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Paris, France with an additional office in Sydney, Australia.

Shiprocket

Series E in 2021
Shiprocket is a tech-enabled logistics aggregation platform that drives global and domestic shipping for MSMEs operating in the e-commerce sector. Shiprocket ships to around 220 countries and across 26,000 PIN codes in India with 18 courier partners on-board. Incepted in 2017, Shiprocket today has 1.5 lakh sellers and has driven a GMV of more than $400 million till date. Some of the USPs of the platform include its AI-driven recommendation engine, cost-effectiveness (with domestic and international shipping rates), time-efficiency, data-driven approach, and easy-to-use integrated ecosystem for sellers (including Shiprocket 360 and Shiprocket Social) alongside others. This has enabled the platform to secure a YoY growth rate of 300% throughout and onboard customers irrespective of their operational/target geographies or business volume - emerging as the next-generation logistics enabler for e-commerce shipping in India.
WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.

Konfio

Series E in 2021
Konfio provides digital banking and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools. The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and is headquartered in Mexico City.

InterviewBit Academy

Series B in 2021
InterviewBit Software Services LLP develops an interview preparation platform that offers computer science education via live online classes to prepare students for jobs in technology companies. It gathers data about the users' coding skills, their previous projects, and other technical attributes which is used to match the candidates to a given job. It also operates as a recruitment agency that sources pre-screened technical talent for employers such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, and Google. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Pune, India.
Founded in 2013 by Osnat Michaeli and the brothers Erez and Guy Galonska, Infarm combines highly efficient vertical farms with IoT technologies and Machine Learning, to offer an alternative food system that is resilient, transparent, and affordable. The company distributes its smart modular farms throughout the urban environment to grow fresh produce for the city’s inhabitants. With cutting edge R&D, patented technologies, and a leading multi-disciplinary team, Infarm was founded on a visionary mission: helping cities become self-sufficient in their food production while significantly improving the safety, quality, and environmental footprint of our food.

Liqid Inc.

Series C in 2021
Liqid Inc. develops infrastructure hardware and software platform that enables users to manage, scale out, and configure physical bare-metal server systems within the data center. It offers composable infrastructure products, such as composable vSAN, high-memory products, AI platform, expansion solutions, and development kits; and composable storage products. Liqid Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

Distribusion Technologies

Series B in 2022
We believe any part of the travel journey should be bookable from anywhere and that booking ground transportation tickets should be as easy as booking a flight. We developed the first global B2B booking API and the largest network of carriers and retailers in the industry. Through our platform, global travel brands connect with hundreds of buses, airport transfer, train and ferry providers. Travel retailers use our API to access the largest content while carriers benefit from a full end-to-end booking solution. We are building what is to become the world’s standard for ground transportation.
WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.

Smartcoin

Series B in 2022
SmartCoin is a mobile app based lending platform, capable of assessing the risk profile of a prospective borrower in real time, using data science and machine learning algorithms. Their proprietary credit underwriting engine aggregates thousands of data points on a customer’s smartphone to build a customized credit score. A customer is instantly offered personalized loan products on the basis of his risk and capacity, and the money is transferred digitally to their bank account.

Dataiku

Series E in 2021
DATAIKU SAS provides a software platform for data applications. It offers Data Science Studio, a software platform that aggregates the steps and big data tools necessary to get from raw data to production ready applications. The company’s Data Science Studio enables companies to build their data lab and start extracting value from their data. Its application is accessible to data scientists and business analysts. DATAIKU SAS was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Paris, France with an additional office in Sydney, Australia.

Agrevolution

Series D in 2021
Green Agrevolution Pvt. Ltd. engages in distribution of agri-inputs, collection of agri-produce, and provides crop advisory. It offers DeHaat, an online marketplace and application, which provides farm products and services; electronic weighing and daily price display; processing and logistics solution; soil health management, crop selection, and crop monitoring. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Patna, India.

Chalo

Series C in 2021
Chalo is a free app that tracks ‍‍‍buses live and tells you what time your bus will reach your stop. Now you never have to wait at a bus stop ever again.

4G Capital

Series C in 2022
4G Capital provides instant access credit for small business growth in Africa. The company provides unsecured debt funding to self-employed informal market traders. Its clientele include owner-operators of micro businesses in low income informal markets; business cycles; rural and urban markets, such as agriculture, trade, and household goods; entrepreneurs; resilient customers; and female traders. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Lilium GmbH

Post in 2021
Lilium is an aviation company developing an emissions-free regional air mobility service. It has designed and prototyped the Lilium Jet, a brand-new type of aircraft that will enable it to deliver regional journeys that are considerably faster than rail or road, yet competitive in price. The demonstrator aircraft first flew in 2019 and is a five-seater, fully-electric aircraft that can take-off and land vertically (eVTOL). Lilium expects to service a sizeable global market demand by connecting communities at a fraction of the cost of conventional high-speed infrastructure, with zero operating emissions.

Vivriti Capital

Series C in 2022
Vivriti Capital has been set up with the objective of creating the largest and most valuable platform for financial services, serving a client base of financial institutions, corporates, small enterprises, and individuals that lack efficient access to financial services. The founding team is committed to making Vivriti Capital a one-stop shop for all the debt requirements of its target clientele.

Creditas

Series E in 2020
Creditas is a financial technology company, operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

CargoX

Series F in 2021
CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of Brazil. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers, increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road. CargoX was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

CredAvenue

Series A in 2021
CredAvenue is a fully integrated, unified digital platform that helps discover, trade, execute and fulfill debt solutions for investors.

InterviewBit Academy

Series B in 2022
InterviewBit Software Services LLP develops an interview preparation platform that offers computer science education via live online classes to prepare students for jobs in technology companies. It gathers data about the users' coding skills, their previous projects, and other technical attributes which is used to match the candidates to a given job. It also operates as a recruitment agency that sources pre-screened technical talent for employers such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, and Google. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Pune, India.
Buser is a collaborative charter platform where travelers can have low cost bus trips. Buser connects people who want to the same destination. The sustainable technology encourage mobility in Brazil, creating a new option for safe, quality, and fair transportation. The app is available for iOS and Android. Buser founded on November 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Burn to Give SPA

Series C in 2022
Betterfly is a purpose-driven wellbeing and insurance platform that empowers organizations and employees to improve their health and wellbeing while making an impact in their communities. Its unique approach to employee wellbeing rewards good habits with life insurance coverage that grows every day and converts every healthy activity into a charitable donation. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

Shiprocket

Series E in 2022
Shiprocket is a tech-enabled logistics aggregation platform that drives global and domestic shipping for MSMEs operating in the e-commerce sector. Shiprocket ships to around 220 countries and across 26,000 PIN codes in India with 18 courier partners on-board. Incepted in 2017, Shiprocket today has 1.5 lakh sellers and has driven a GMV of more than $400 million till date. Some of the USPs of the platform include its AI-driven recommendation engine, cost-effectiveness (with domestic and international shipping rates), time-efficiency, data-driven approach, and easy-to-use integrated ecosystem for sellers (including Shiprocket 360 and Shiprocket Social) alongside others. This has enabled the platform to secure a YoY growth rate of 300% throughout and onboard customers irrespective of their operational/target geographies or business volume - emerging as the next-generation logistics enabler for e-commerce shipping in India.

Etagen

Series E in 2022
EtaGen, Inc. provides power generation services. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Neo4j, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2021
Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help global brands – including Comcast, NASA, UBS and Volvo – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built with Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Find out more at neo4j.com. © 2020 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j® Bloom™ and Neo4j® Aura™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.

Porter

Series E in 2021
Porter aims to offer economical, efficient and reliable intra-city Transportation solutions to its customers. It helps e-commerce, FMCG, SMEs, traders, 3PLs, Courier, Cargo companies optimize their logistics with the help of our dedicated fleet and in-house technology. Porter started off as a platform to address inefficiencies in the last mile logistics sector and transform the way goods are transported around cities, enabling lakhs of businesses move anything on-demand. Our clientele includes ITC, Flipkart, Amazon, Furlenco, Delhivery, Aramex, Urban Ladder, Pepperfry, Parle Agro and many more.

MessageBird B.V.

Series C in 2021
MessageBird B.V. develops and markets cloud based software solutions for calling, customer service, two-factor authentications, and notifications. It offers voice solutions, text message services, programmable conversations, emails, lookup, and flow builder solutions. MessageBird B.V. was founded in 2011 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in Hamburg, Germany; San Francisco, California; Shanghai, China; Sydney, Australia; London, United Kingdom; and Singapore.

IMAX Program

Venture Round in 2018
IMAX Program is a data drive personalization education product that builds learning genome using school assessments.

Copia Global

Series B in 2019
Copia Global Inc. provides an e-commerce application that enables users to browse products and place orders with the local shopkeepers. The company’s application enables shopkeepers to order products for customers and make payments for the ordered products through a mobile payment system. Copia Global Inc. was formerly known as TTJL Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Eupheus Learning

Series C in 2021
Eupheus Learning is a Delhi based EdTech firm aiming to bridge the gap between in-class and at-home learning by offering pedagogically differentiated, technology-led solutions in the K-12 space.The company targets reaching 10 million kids in India through its curriculum and specially curated educational offerings in Kinesthetic Learning, Reading Enhancement, STEM / STEAM, and English Language learning via exclusive tie-ups with award-winning Edtech companies from across the world.

Konfio

Series E in 2021
Konfio provides digital banking and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools. The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and is headquartered in Mexico City.

SunFire GmbH

Series D in 2021
Sunfire develops and manufactures systems for renewable industrial gas and fuel production. These substitutes for mineral oil and natural gas, known as e-Gas, e-Fuel or e-Chemicals, replace fossil fuels in existing infrastructures. The solid oxide cells (SOCs) used for the conversion process are also used as generators to provide electricity and heat. Sunfire’s vision is to make regenerative energy from sources such as wind farms, hydropower plants and photovoltaic systems available wherever and whenever it is needed — not just when the wind is blowing, the waves are crashing or the sun is shining.
CMR Surgical is to make minimal access surgery available to all. With Versius they have delivered a next-generation tool to fit seamlessly into today’s operating rooms, working in harmony with the surgeon to improve patient outcomes and deliver value for healthcare providers.
Founded in 2013 by Osnat Michaeli and the brothers Erez and Guy Galonska, Infarm combines highly efficient vertical farms with IoT technologies and Machine Learning, to offer an alternative food system that is resilient, transparent, and affordable. The company distributes its smart modular farms throughout the urban environment to grow fresh produce for the city’s inhabitants. With cutting edge R&D, patented technologies, and a leading multi-disciplinary team, Infarm was founded on a visionary mission: helping cities become self-sufficient in their food production while significantly improving the safety, quality, and environmental footprint of our food.
Ummeed Housing Finance is a housing finance company that provides home loans and loan against property to lower and middle income families. The company aims to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population. Ummeed Housing Finance's services include issuance of home loans and loan against property to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time for customers, enabling low and middle income households to get access to affordable housing loans in an innovative and personalized manner.

Varthana

Seed Round in 2013
Varthana provides loans and support for affordable private schools. They are a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) headquartered in Bangalore, India.

General Water SA

Private Equity Round in 2017
General Water S.A. engages in the extraction, treatment, and supply of water in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region. It also engages in the treatment and reuse of sewage. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Copia Global

Venture Round in 2018
Copia Global Inc. provides an e-commerce application that enables users to browse products and place orders with the local shopkeepers. The company’s application enables shopkeepers to order products for customers and make payments for the ordered products through a mobile payment system. Copia Global Inc. was formerly known as TTJL Inc. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

CargoX

Series E in 2020
CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of Brazil. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers, increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road. CargoX was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Lilium GmbH

Series B in 2017
Lilium is an aviation company developing an emissions-free regional air mobility service. It has designed and prototyped the Lilium Jet, a brand-new type of aircraft that will enable it to deliver regional journeys that are considerably faster than rail or road, yet competitive in price. The demonstrator aircraft first flew in 2019 and is a five-seater, fully-electric aircraft that can take-off and land vertically (eVTOL). Lilium expects to service a sizeable global market demand by connecting communities at a fraction of the cost of conventional high-speed infrastructure, with zero operating emissions.

Dr.Consulta

Series B in 2016
Dr.consulta is a healthtech platform and primary care provider, self sufficient to generate health data, working to eliminate medically homelessness.

Porter

Series D in 2020
Porter aims to offer economical, efficient and reliable intra-city Transportation solutions to its customers. It helps e-commerce, FMCG, SMEs, traders, 3PLs, Courier, Cargo companies optimize their logistics with the help of our dedicated fleet and in-house technology. Porter started off as a platform to address inefficiencies in the last mile logistics sector and transform the way goods are transported around cities, enabling lakhs of businesses move anything on-demand. Our clientele includes ITC, Flipkart, Amazon, Furlenco, Delhivery, Aramex, Urban Ladder, Pepperfry, Parle Agro and many more.
Aye Finance is a finance company that provides business loans to micro and small businesses in Northern India.The company's mission is to provide innovative and customer-centered financial services to micro and small business through effective technology and robust processes. It works with a relevant technology to facilitate better financial inclusion and to consequently serve micro-enterprises. Aye Finance was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Lilium GmbH

Venture Round in 2020
Lilium is an aviation company developing an emissions-free regional air mobility service. It has designed and prototyped the Lilium Jet, a brand-new type of aircraft that will enable it to deliver regional journeys that are considerably faster than rail or road, yet competitive in price. The demonstrator aircraft first flew in 2019 and is a five-seater, fully-electric aircraft that can take-off and land vertically (eVTOL). Lilium expects to service a sizeable global market demand by connecting communities at a fraction of the cost of conventional high-speed infrastructure, with zero operating emissions.
WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.
Dunzo Digital Private Limited operates a daily tasks management app dunzo. Its services include groceries and essentials, fruits and vegetables, send packages, meat and fish, food delivery, medicines, pet supplies, health and wellness, bike pool, and gifts and lifestyle delivery services. The company provide its services in Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, and Mumbai. Dunzo Digital Private Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
CMR Surgical is to make minimal access surgery available to all. With Versius they have delivered a next-generation tool to fit seamlessly into today’s operating rooms, working in harmony with the surgeon to improve patient outcomes and deliver value for healthcare providers.

WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd.

Debt Financing in 2019
WayCool Foods & Products Pvt. Ltd. procures, preserves, packs, re-packs, transports, and trades fruits, vegetables, nuts, spices, condiments, dairy products, and baked goods, as well as grocery products, including staples and cereals. The company also designs and constructs storage facilities for own and third party’s sale or lease, develop, and manage the operations of cold chain distribution. It provides its products through its retail stores and mobile stores on trucks, as well as e-commerce in Chennai. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chennai, India.

OurHouse

Series D in 2000
OurHouse is an online retailer that provides its clients with hardware products and advice from its official online platform. The company partnered with Ace Hardware, a retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, and the United States. OurHouse was founded in 1999.

IPnetwork

Series B in 2000
IPnetwork provides foreign advertising solutions via TV, radio, and internet delivery platforms.
Dunzo Digital Private Limited operates a daily tasks management app dunzo. Its services include groceries and essentials, fruits and vegetables, send packages, meat and fish, food delivery, medicines, pet supplies, health and wellness, bike pool, and gifts and lifestyle delivery services. The company provide its services in Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Jaipur, and Mumbai. Dunzo Digital Private Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
Aye Finance is a finance company that provides business loans to micro and small businesses in Northern India.The company's mission is to provide innovative and customer-centered financial services to micro and small business through effective technology and robust processes. It works with a relevant technology to facilitate better financial inclusion and to consequently serve micro-enterprises. Aye Finance was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

The Family

Venture Round in 2018
The Family is building the largest and most sophisticated service infrastructure for startups in Europe. Their model is to take 5% equity for free in exchange of long-term support. Today, they have a portfolio of 200+ active companies in London, Paris and Berlin, including Captain Train (acquired by Trainline), Algolia and Payfit.
Vogo is a dockless scooter rental company that lets customers rent scooters for short one-way trips. The company's VOGO box is attached to each scooter and lets customers access the key without any human intervention and start riding. Vogo is the fastest commute option available today in India at a fraction of the cost of other alternatives. Vogo is currently available at limited pick-up and drop-off points across Bangalore and Hyderabad.

SalaUno Salud SAPI de CV

Corporate Round in 2019
salauno offers eye care services (e.g. cataract, glaucoma, pterygium, diabetic retinopathy, etc.) to the bottom of Mexico's pyramid (low and middle-income population). They distinguish themselves by their culture of patient focus and affordability. The company has received several awards (incl. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship) and it has currently 11 clinics operating in Mexico.
Vogo is a dockless scooter rental company that lets customers rent scooters for short one-way trips. The company's VOGO box is attached to each scooter and lets customers access the key without any human intervention and start riding. Vogo is the fastest commute option available today in India at a fraction of the cost of other alternatives. Vogo is currently available at limited pick-up and drop-off points across Bangalore and Hyderabad.

General Water SA

Venture Round in 2017
General Water S.A. engages in the extraction, treatment, and supply of water in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region. It also engages in the treatment and reuse of sewage. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Dr.Consulta

Series A in 2014
Dr.consulta is a healthtech platform and primary care provider, self sufficient to generate health data, working to eliminate medically homelessness.
Arya Collateral Warehousing Services provides post-harvest services including warehousing, warehouse receipt financing, rural storage discovery, collateral management and market linkages.
Aye Finance is a finance company that provides business loans to micro and small businesses in Northern India.The company's mission is to provide innovative and customer-centered financial services to micro and small business through effective technology and robust processes. It works with a relevant technology to facilitate better financial inclusion and to consequently serve micro-enterprises. Aye Finance was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Vitamina

Private Equity Round in 2019
Vitamina es una red de Salas cuna y Jardines Infantiles de Chile, con 10 años de trayectoria