Headline

Headline, formerly known as e.ventures, is a global venture capital firm founded in 1998, with a presence in seven cities worldwide. The firm specializes in investing in technology-driven companies across various stages, focusing on consumer internet, media, and mobile sectors. Headline operates with Early Stage Funds in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, while its San Francisco-based Growth Fund targets investments from Series B and beyond. This structure enables the firm to stay attuned to local market trends and work closely with promising founders. Notable companies in Headline's portfolio include Sonos, The RealReal, and Bumble, demonstrating its commitment to fostering transformative businesses on a global scale.

Jonathan Becker

Partner

Jett Fein

Partner

King Goh

Principal

Luis Hanemann

Partner

Andreas Haug

Managing Partner

Christian Leybold

Managing Partner

Lauren Lyon

Operating Partner

Thomas Middlehoff

CEO

Christian Miele

Partner

Dorothee Poetter Nam

Senior Director, Finance

Patrick Reilly

Chief Financial Officer

Mathias Schilling

Managing Partner

Jonathan Userovici

General Partner

547 past transactions

Smartfrog

Series A in 2016
Smartfrog provides a home surveillance solution that includes an application (Android and iOS), a camera, and video storage features. It offers its solution to monitor houses or apartments, babies and children, pets, holiday homes, and business places. Abbas Sadegh, Andreas Rudyk, and Norbert Stangl founded Smartfrog in 2014.

Candid

Private Placement in 2019
Candid helps people get the smile they've always wanted at a price they can afford. Customers complete an at-home impression kit, and in a matter of weeks, Candid Co sends them custom clear aligners in the mail. In an average of just 5 months, our customers will straighten and whiten their teeth to perfection. Candid Co's network of professional orthodontists oversees the entire treatment process from planning to evaluation to manufacturing. And the best part? It's all without ever having to set foot in a dentist office.

Shopmonkey

Series C in 2021
Shopmonkey Inc. develops a cloud-based shop management software for repair shops. It offers Shopmonkey that provides workflow management, calendar and scheduling, texting and emailing, automated followups and reminders, notifications, digital vehicle inspections, messages templates, and fleet reports. It offers its solution for auto repair, auto body, auto detail, auto glass, custom builds, heavy duty repair, bicycle repair, marine repair, motorcycle repair, oil change, RV repair, and tire shops. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Global Savings Group

Series A in 2014
Global Savings Group GmbH operates savings platforms that offer users opportunities to save on shopping in various sectors. It provides deals in the areas of fashion and accessories, books, movies, music and games, electronics and phones, beauty, health and wellness, and more. Global Savings Group GmbH was formerly known as CUPONATION Group GmbH and changed its name to Global Savings Group GmbH in July 2016. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Growblocks

Seed Round in 2023
Growblocks’ approach to predictable revenue is all about making it actionable. We help businesses understand their revenue by building robust, data-driven models fit for hyper-growth. We connect models to revenue plans and run alongside teams as they execute. Businesses using Growblocks don’t just hit their revenue goals, they beat them. Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.

CityDeal

Venture Round in 2010
CityDeal is a German based daily deal site which offers discounted deals to consumers on a daily basis based on city. If enough consumers sign up then the deal is on.

Playbook

Series A in 2020
Playbook is a mobile marketplace for trainers, health, and wellness athletes and professionals. It allows creators to have relationship with customers, build monthly income, and create own terms. It is an app for professionals, trainers, and athletes where they can share their workouts and healthy habits. It was launched in 2016 and is based in New York, USA.

Pismo

Series B in 2021
Pismo provides SaaS payment processing solutions. Daniela Binatti and Juliana Motta founded it on September 1, 2015 , with its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

Cajoo

Series A in 2021
Cajoo provides grocery home delivery services.

The RealReal

Series D in 2015
The RealReal, Inc. operates an online marketplace for consigned luxury goods. It offers various resale product categories, including women’s, men’s, kids’, jewelry, and watches, as well as home and art products. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

EBTH, Inc.

Series C in 2016
EBTH, Inc. operates as an online estate sales company. It connects buyers to antique pieces from estate sales. The company also provides services for buying and selling products ranging from mid-century furniture to original art, used cars, collectibles, vintage bags, everyday kitchen and houseware, appliances, books, collectibles, electronics and computers, fashion and accessories, toys and games, jewelry and watches, and music and instruments, as well as automotive, bed and bath, commercial and industrial, décor, entertainment, furniture, home improvement, lighting, outdoor and garden, sports, and travel and leisure product categories. It also serves customers through a mobile application. EBTH, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Blue Ash, Ohio.

goPuff

Series B in 2016
goPuff is a Philadelphia-based startup that delivers products like over-the-counter medicine, baby food, and alcohol. goPuff was founded in 2013 by Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, two Drexel University students with a minivan and a vision to make everyday life a little easier. What started as a snack delivery service quickly grew into a national essential, and food delivery service, and later, in some markets, alcohol delivery. Today, goPuff is the fastest growing delivery service, operating 24/7 in most major markets. goPuff makes sure its customers have everything they need: from quick meals, over-the-counter meds, snacks and drinks to electronics, office supplies, baby and pet essentials, and in some markets, beer, wine, and spirits. Across America, goPuff is known for satiating late-night cravings for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, Doritos, Red Bull, and, in select markets, White Claw and rescuing those in need of diapers, condoms, and cleaning products. goPuff allows users the joy of browsing the shelves without the hassle of going to the store. It takes seconds to navigate the app and minutes for goPuff’s Driver-Partners to deliver the customer’s needs and wants. goPuff’s strategically located facilities cut out the middleman allowing for a flat fee of $1.95. goPuff’s success has allowed the company to support important causes. In March 2020 goPuff committed to $1 million in orders to hospital workers fighting COVID-19. In May 2020 the company wrote a check for $1 million to match donations to Boys and Girls Clubs. In June 2020 goPuff committed to supporting underrepresented founders in Philadelphia.

Klima

Series A in 2022
Klima is a provider of CO2 offsetting services used to reverse the effects of climate change. Its application allows users to calculate their footprint and understand the climate impact of their lifestyle and allows them to support science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same amount of emissions elsewhere that helps users realize their carbon emission goals. Klima was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Bumble

Venture Round in 2020
Bumble Trading Inc. operates a networking platform. Its platform allows people of all genders to make empowered connections in various areas of their lives, whether that means you’re seeking a romantic relationship on Bumble Date, making new friendships on Bumble BFF, or growing your professional network on Bumble Bizz. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Speakeasy

Series D in 2004
Speakeasy is one of the nation's leading broadband voice (VoIP), data and IT service providers. Speakeasy helps small businesses succeed by offering simplified voice and data solutions that improve the customer experience, increase employee productivity and help cut costs. Based in Seattle, Speakeasy has provided award-winning customer service since 1994 and joined the Best Buy family of companies in April 2007, working with Best Buy For Business to champion technology for small businesses throughout the U.S.

Codota

Venture Round in 2022
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

Smart Break

Series A in 2022
Smart Break Brasil is a pioneering company in the installation and operation of mini markets in residential condominiums and businesses using the concept of HONEST MARKET, that is, 100% autonomous stores with no employees, in the CHOOSE, GET, AND PAID model. It began in 2018 with the goal of changing Brazilian consumption habits by making everything consumers need just an elevator ride away or very close to their work desks. Its goal is to improve the quality of life for its customers by adding more practicality and convenience to their daily lives.

Deblock

Seed Round in 2022
Deblock offers banking services to cryptocurrency users.It assists people to cash out their cryptocurrency investments.

UXCam

Seed Round in 2022
UXCam is a tool for gathering and analyzing user experience data. UXCam - All-in-one UX optimization tool.

Grin

Private Placement in 2020
Grin Technologies Inc. develops an influencer marketing platform that helps users to find, recruit, and manage authentic relationships to build brand love. It offers GRIN, an influencer marketing software platform for creating genuine and direct relationships with influencers. The company’s software is also used to reporting and analytics, relationship management, influencer payments, discovery and recruitment, product seeding, and content management. Grin Technologies Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Sacramento, California.

Ansible, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Ansible, Inc. develops information technology orchestration solutions. The company offers an enterprise-ready orchestration platform to information technology organizations. It enables businesses to manage computing infrastructures on-premise and in the cloud. Additionally, the company provides consulting and training services. The company was formerly known as AnsibleWorks, Inc. and changed its name to Ansible, Inc. in January 2014. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Montecito, California. As of October 15, 2015, Ansible, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.

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.

Appfolio

Series B in 2008
AppFolio Property Manager is a web-based property management software solution designed to help professional residential property managers focus on growing their business, not managing their software.

Intellect

Series A in 2022
Intellect is an app that helps you redevelop your traits, habits and behaviors through digitized therapy programs. Developed by a team of the world's leading psychologists and behavioral experts.

Freee

Series A in 2013
freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business. The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan.

Alloy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Alloy provides sophisticated investors with the infrastructure they need to interact with decentralised finance. They provide an intuitive client-facing frontend, similar to a brokerage trading platform, and an API solution for clients to integrate into existing infrastructure.

TheFamily S.A.S.

Private Placement in 2018
TheFamily S.A.S. provides education to entrepreneurs to build startups in Europe. It provides education in various areas, including toxicity, local, problems, focus, founders, bootstrap, care, growth, ambition, mission, investors, and courage. The company also offers deals, office hours with partners and entrepreneurs-in-residence, access to successful founders and thought-leaders, fundraising with godfathers, and a team of doers on demand. TheFamily S.A.S. was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, France.

Yeahka

Series A in 2011
Yeahka is a Chinese mobile payment service provider. Yeahka is committed to providing mobile payment solutions and related operational services for mobile e-businesses. It has developed a merchant-oriented mobile payment product named Leshua Business Version, which provides small businesses with convenient mobile payment services. Yeahka’s team is composed of senior personnel from famous internet and communications companies in China. With profound experience in the payment industry, Yeahka made huge progress in key technologies in mobile payment such as QR code payment technology, NFC payment technology, and independently developed JCVM technology.

Klima

Seed Round in 2020
Klima is a provider of CO2 offsetting services used to reverse the effects of climate change. Its application allows users to calculate their footprint and understand the climate impact of their lifestyle and allows them to support science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same amount of emissions elsewhere that helps users realize their carbon emission goals. Klima was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Layerise

Seed Round in 2021
Layerise ApS develops and offers product assistant and onboarding tool. It provides product reminders, product how-to guides, customer insights, post-sale triggers, smart localization, authoring tool, post-sale marketing, smart product registration, and product chat. The company was founded in 2019 and is based Copenhagen, Denmark.

Airvet

Private Placement in 2020
AirVet is a telehealth platform designed to offer continuity of care between pet parents and veterinarians. It aims to support and strengthen existing relationships between veterinarians and clients. Veterinarians can engage with clients or with pet parents through video or real-time chat to drive clinic revenue and create a continuity of care not achievable before, while becoming a part of an innovative veterinary community. The company was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Reelio

Seed Round in 2014
Reelio is a provider of an influencer marketing platform created to identify and manage top social media influencers. The company's platform enables forecasting, workflow automation, optimization, and reporting to provide valuable insights that result in scalable, predictable, measurable, and repeatable influencer marketing campaigns for brands. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York.

Blinks Labs GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
Blinks Labs GmbH operates a platform for mobile reading on the Internet portals and mobile applications. The company offers books such as, nonfiction books, mindfulness books, leadership books, psychology books, sales books, parenting books, entrepreneurship books, economics books, finance and investing books, self-help books, business books, history books, inspiring books, marketing books, biographies books, motivational books, and management books. It also offers Blinkist magazine, a digital publication full of original writing, interviews, and infographics. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

HireAthena

Series A in 2013
HireAthena, INC. provides accounting and HR Web services to startups and non-profit businesses. It offers services from payrolls, benefits, FSA, and 401k management to accounting, bookkeeping, monthly financials, and tax. HireAthena, INC. was formerly known as BackOps, Inc. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Velvet

Venture Round in 2021
Velvet is a liquidity platform for venture capital.

Cake Bikes

Convertible Note in 2021
Light, clean and silent – CAKE develops uncompromising high performance electric off-road motorcycles.

NGINX

Series B in 2016
NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer. NGINX was incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Stotles

Seed Round in 2022
Stotles is giving suppliers to government the tools and insights required to effectively find and win public-sector contracts. They aggregate and standardize huge amounts of data in order to give suppliers a complete view of thier market and surface the most relevant opportunites and intelligence in real time. Stotles is ensuring the best fit suppliers work with governments by bringing transparency to the £7Tn that flows from governments to businesses every year.

Codota

Private Placement in 2020
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

iS3

Series B in 2003
iS3 is a software company that provides its clients with internet security products and services. Its users, resellers, and affiliates are provided integral support to resolve issues. iS3 offers a range of online solutions, including security software, tech support services, custom programming, and more. It was founded in 1991. iS3 is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

Futrli

Private Placement in 2018
FUTRLI LTD designs and develops a cloud based forecasting and reporting platform. Its platform provides cashflow forecasting, business planning, business budgeting, scenario modelling, reports and key performance dashboards, business reporting, business alerts, consolidation, and white labelling services. The company was formerly known as HAMY LIMITED and changed its name to FUTRLI LTD in October 2018. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Kenbi

Series A in 2021
Herzsache GmbH provides heart care services to patients at home. Herzsache GmbH is headquartered in Altdorf Bei Nurnberg, Germany.

Acorns

Series F in 2022
Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Plain Vanilla

Series A in 2013
Plain Vanilla Corp., a mobile games company, develops a real-time social trivia platform for mobile devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California with an operation in Reykjavík, Iceland. As of December 19, 2016, Plain Vanilla Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Glu Mobile Inc.

Weavr

Seed Round in 2020
Weavr provides an open publicly-accessible cloud-based platform that connects payment networks and financial providers, and tools for innovators to define, deploy and consume digital payment flows. Businesses need to master payment flows to realize the full benefits of digitization, but as payment capabilities - such as open banking, new payment card transactions, real-time bank payments, DLT-based value transfers - proliferate and compliance burdens grow - PCI DSS, but also Secure Customer Authentication and new AML directives - complexity is an increasing barrier for innovators. Weavr addresses these challenges in practical ways, simplifying how digital payments are purchased, delivered and consumed.

Honeycomb

Series C in 2021
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it empowers every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system. The company was founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California.

Dray Alliance

Series B in 2021
Dray Alliance is disrupting the multi-billion dollar drayage trucking industry with a technology platform that makes deliveries to warehouses simple, predictable, and transparent. Eliminating the friction in each step of the delivery process, Dray Alliance efficiently connects shippers, carriers, and truckers in real time.

Swell

Series A in 2022
Swell Commerce Corp. develops both client-side and server-side application programming Interface. It operates as a multi-channel direct marketer of surf apparel, equipment and lifestyle products. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Auctionata

Series A in 2013
Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvency proceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

Asana Rebel

Series B in 2018
Asana Rebel offers a Yoga-inspired fitness app combining the best of Yoga and fitness. The mobile fitness App is available in six languages (DE, EN, FR, PT, ESP, IT), has been featured multiple times by Apple and Google and is rated as one of the top health and fitness apps, with an average of more than 4.6 / 5 stars. The startup was founded in 2015 by Pascal Klein and Robin Pratap and is based in Berlin.

Voicea

Series A in 2018
Voicea is the creator of EVA, an Enterprise Voice Assistant. EVA is an intelligent meeting facilitator that helps people have more productive meetings by making meetings searchable, taking note of decisions, and encouraging follow-up on action items. Leveraging a blend of artificial intelligence and speech recognition, EVA is built to propel professionals to be more efficient, effective and creative. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. Voicea is led by veterans from Oracle, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Codota

Series A in 2020
Codota is an artificial pair programmer that learns from existing code to help you build software faster and smarter. Codota runs alongside the IDE and uses the learned code models to suggest relevant code. These suggestions save you time searching for references, and help prevent errors. Codota helps you when writing new code by predicting the code that you may need next. Codota helps you when reading and reviewing code by showing you code that applies in similar settings.

LucidLink

Series A in 2021
Lucid provides a cloud-backed distributed file service allowing instant access to an unlimited, shared, and secure file space in the cloud. It believes cloud object storage has the power to transform the way individuals and businesses store and access their files. LucidLink aims to change that with universal distributed file system that streams data from cloud object storage. It purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. Simply stated, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage.

Jow

Seed Round in 2019
Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking. Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

First AML

Series B in 2021
First AML Limited provides customer due diligence (CDD) outsourced services. It provides CDD, identify verification, source of wealth / source of funds, PEP screening, and annual reporting and audit support services. It serves law firms, accounting firms, real estate agents, financial firms and other entities. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Defacto

Series A in 2022
Defacto is a fintech firm that offers credit infrastructure using an API for small and medium companies. Defacto is an embedded finance product,

Let’s Do This

Series B in 2022
Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet. It helps race organizers to reach an engaged community of participants and endurance sports enthusiasts, offering a dedicated platform to provide detailed event information, news, and special offers. Find and book the best running, triathlon, cycling and obstacle events in the UK and around the world. Whether it's a 5k fun run or tenth Ironman Triathlon, Let's Do This is the best place to find the perfect race. It was founded in 2016 by Alex Rose and Sam Browne who are both passionate runners and cyclists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in London, United Kingdom.

Swile

Series D in 2021
Swile is a provider of digital solutions for employee rewards and benefits through a custom card and app. Swile is reinventing the corporate lunchtime experience with group ordering, couponing, and payment app. Swile is a new actor in the restaurant title.Their mission is simple: to make the lunch break a pleasant, simple and effective moment. Their offer is based on a meal voucher card to pay for lunch throughout France and an app that allows you to manage your card and have lunch as a team by getting discounts.They believe that the restaurant title should not be limited to just paying for a business lunch. It is especially an opportunity of conviviality and cohesion between colleagues! Created at the end of 2016 by Loïc Soubeyrand (founder of Teads, repurchased € 285m by Altice), Lunchr is supported by the Daphni fund with a first round of € 2.5m, and a second of € 11m in May 2018 (Idinvest fund). What gives us means up to their ambition: to become the leading service of the lunch break in Europe. To support their rapid growth, Lunchr onboard 40 new passionate and talented employees to join their great adventure this year.

Leapwork

Series B in 2021
ILEAPWORK is transforming work on a global scale. We are democratizing automation through our next generation visual language that everyone understands. Now non-technical people can easily train software robots to handle repetitive and mundane tasks. It matters because it impacts us all, from increasing our productivity to our job satisfaction. LEAPWORK robots are used by Global2000 companies in test automation, RPA and Systems monitoring across the world and in all industries, from banks and insurance companies to life science, government and aerospace. https://www.leapwork.com/

Honeycomb

Series A in 2018
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it empowers every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system. The company was founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California.

YuMe

Venture Round in 2010
YuMe is a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions that drives inventory monetization and enables advertisers to reach targeted audiences across a wide range of internet-connected devices. Designed to serve the specific needs of brand advertising, its technology platform simplifies the complexities associated with delivering effective digital video advertising campaigns in today’s market. YuMe was founded in 2004 by [Jayant Kadambi](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jayant-kadambi#/entity) and [Ayyappan Sankaran](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ayyappan-sankaran#/entity). It is headquartered in Redwood City, C.A. with European headquarters in London and nine additional offices worldwide.

RABO

Series B in 2022
RABO, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes Internet of Things-based collar-type wearable devices for cats’ behavioral measurement. It also develops mobile application to support its devices. The company’s products include Catlog pendant and belt, which measures activity data of cats for 24 hours and supports cat health management; Catlog home; and Catlog app, a mobile application that enables cat owners to review their cat’s activity. It distributes its products through online retail store. RABO, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Shibuya, Japan.

Apiax

Venture Round in 2021
Apiax is a Swiss RegTech start-up that builds and offers tools that transform complex financial regulations into digital compliance rules, which are constantly up-to-date and verified. The rules are consumable via an App or can be integrated directly into banking processes through an easy-to-use API. Its cutting-edge technology provides legal and compliance teams with full visibility and control over their digital rule sets and empowers client advisors to serve their clients more efficiently and in a fully compliant manner. Apiax was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Azimo

Private Placement in 2018
Azimo is an online international money transfer company that challenges the old fashioned, expensive ways of moving your money around the world. They are all about lower costs, excellent exchange rates and a brilliant service. Azimo is created with the explicit mission of cutting the costs of sending money home. Its international money transfer platform allows to send money either to a bank account or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points around the world and is accessible via mobile devices.

EmployeeApp GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
EmployeeApp GmbH, doing business as Staffbase, operates as a Software-as-a-Service provider for employee applications. The company offers a mobile Intranet application that allows small and medium businesses to reach workers on smartphones, tablets, or desktops; and Staffbase NOW, a real-time communications solution that help companies reach their entire workforce. It serves customers worldwide. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Chemnitz, Germany.

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.

Staffbase

Series D in 2021
Staffbase supports industry leaders with their own branded app to engage their diverse, disconnected, and distributed workforce. Offices in Chemnitz, Dresden, Cologne and New York.

Sorare

Funding Round in 2021
Sorare is a global fantasy football game where managers can trade official digital collectibles. It is on a mission to make crypto fun and accessible to all through fantasy football. Based in Paris, Sorare provides a soccer team management game with digital NFT cards that fans can collect and trade. Founded in December 2018, Sorare currently sold $1.8 million worth of cards in December 2020.

MyFab

Series B in 2009
[MyFab.com](http://www.myfab.com) is an e-commerce solution that allows prospective shoppers to look for inventory directly from companies' factories and warehouses. The service cuts out middlemen in the e-commerce arena by dealing directly with manufacturers as suggested by site visitors. The company claims to deliver prices at 70% of the regular price via traditional retailing or other e-commerce sites.

Appdiff, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Appdiff, Inc., doing business as test.ai, an application testing platform that analyzes screens, elements, and flows in a mobile application while measuring performance and tracking the user experience, enabling agile, lean, and continuous engineering teams. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fotolog

Series C in 2006
Fotolog, Inc. operates a photo-blogging site that enables members to create, post, and share a photo diary online. It allows users to connect with friends, family, and others; discover the photos of new people from various cultures; participate in the site's special-interest communities; and receive personal feedback from around the world on their photos. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in New York, New York.

Monta

Series A in 2022
Share your charge point with friends, family, or neighbors on the street. We make sharing a no-brainer! Monta GreenCharge forecasts the availability of renewable energy and manages your charging to reduce CO2 emission. Monta - Driving Innovation

Flutterwave

Series B in 2020
Flutterwave provides a payment service for global merchants and payment service providers. It provides technology, infrastructure, and services to enable global merchants, payment service providers, and helps banks and businesses build secure and seamless payment solutions for their customers by smoothening the exchange of funds. The company was founded in 2016 by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Olugbenga Agboola and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Azimo

Series B in 2015
Azimo is an online international money transfer company that challenges the old fashioned, expensive ways of moving your money around the world. They are all about lower costs, excellent exchange rates and a brilliant service. Azimo is created with the explicit mission of cutting the costs of sending money home. Its international money transfer platform allows to send money either to a bank account or to over 270,000 cash pick-up points around the world and is accessible via mobile devices.

Mira AI, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Mira AI, Inc. operates as an online beauty product’s review platform. The company collects reviews of beauty products brands and allows the customer to browse the product according to the needs. Mira AI, Inc. also provides an advice platform to give and take advice. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Growblocks

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Growblocks’ approach to predictable revenue is all about making it actionable. We help businesses understand their revenue by building robust, data-driven models fit for hyper-growth. We connect models to revenue plans and run alongside teams as they execute. Businesses using Growblocks don’t just hit their revenue goals, they beat them. Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.

Trellis Research

Series A in 2021
Trellis Research, Inc. provides legal data and analytics for law firms. It offers court data and analytics for legal practitioners by gaining insights from state trial court records, as well as practical judicial biographies and actionable analytics on individual judges. The company also operates a searchable database of California Superior Court records and judicial analytics. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Keeper Tax

Series A in 2021
Keeper Tax Inc. designs and develops a bookkeeping software application. Its platform monitors and write-offs purchases and deducts tax expenses among the bank statements of users using machine learning. The company also offers certified bookkeepers to verify the expenses. It offers this product to real estate agents, independent actors, freelance designers, freelance writers, rideshare drivers, scooter chargers, photographers, and Airbnb hosts. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

AdMoment

Seed Round in 2012
AdMoment is a mobile advertising company that offers an advertising platform which provides intelligent targeting solutions through smartphones. It leverages programmatic-buying and engaging formats to help major brands and their media buyers reach consumers through mobile applications. AdMoment’s platform allows mobile publishers to automatically identify the parameters of their target groups, including the time, location, device types, weather, and traffic. AdMoment was incorporated in August 2012 and is based in Moscow, Russia.

Wishop SAS

Private Placement in 2019
Wishop SAS designs and develops a mobile application which offers cooking recipe ingredients. The platform allows users to choose the recipe, provides ingredients, and delivers it to the users. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Paris, France.

Smartfrog

Venture Round in 2020
Smartfrog provides a home surveillance solution that includes an application (Android and iOS), a camera, and video storage features. It offers its solution to monitor houses or apartments, babies and children, pets, holiday homes, and business places. Abbas Sadegh, Andreas Rudyk, and Norbert Stangl founded Smartfrog in 2014.

Icertis

Series F in 2021
Icertis is an enterprise contract management platform in the cloud that solves hard contract management problems on an easy to use platform. With Icertis, companies can accelerate business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize the commercial relationships by maximizing revenue and reducing costs. The AI-infused Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform is used by companies like 3M, Airbus, Cognizant, Daimler, Microsoft, and Roche to manage 5.7 million contracts in 40+ languages across 90+ countries. Icertis was founded on 2009 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

CareSync

Series B in 2017
CareSync is the leading provider of software and services for chronic disease management, combining technology with 24/7 nursing services to facilitate care coordination among patients, family and caregivers and all providers. CareSync provides turnkey Chronic Care Management services and a software-only option, allowing practices of any size to easily meet the billing requirements for CPT code 99490. Additionally, CareSync’s certified technology makes it simple for providers to meet Meaningful Use 2 for Data Exchange, Messaging, and Timely Access. CareSync patients are at the center of their healthcare, with access to health information, actionable goals, and Comprehensive Care Plan tasks, and as a result, are experiencing more productive medical appointments and better health outcomes.

Voicea

Private Placement in 2018
Voicea is the creator of EVA, an Enterprise Voice Assistant. EVA is an intelligent meeting facilitator that helps people have more productive meetings by making meetings searchable, taking note of decisions, and encouraging follow-up on action items. Leveraging a blend of artificial intelligence and speech recognition, EVA is built to propel professionals to be more efficient, effective and creative. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. Voicea is led by veterans from Oracle, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Rocket.Chat

Series A in 2021
Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd. develops and operates an open source Web chat platform. It offers Rocket.Chat platform for video conferencing, helpdesk chat, file sharing, TEX math rendering, screen sharing, voice messages, link preview, API, native applications, and mobile applications. The company also provides white labeling, integrations, data import, feature development, and hosting services. Rocket.Chat Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Porto Alegre, Brazil with additional offices in Brazil, the United States, Canada, Spain, Ecuador, Uruguay, Ukraine, Germany, China, and Portugal.

RoadRunner Recycling

Private Placement in 2020
RoadRunner Recycling provides tech-powered solutions for commercial waste recycling which helps businesses lower recurring costs. This makes waste and recycling significantly more efficient for commercial waste generators. They do this through innovative logistics solutions that cut fuel costs and carbon emissions by 80%, and by focusing on extracting the maximum value from materials. The end result is significant cost savings for businesses, as well as improved environmental performance. RoadRunner Recycling was founded in 2014 and is based in Pennsylvania.

Apiax

Series A in 2019
Apiax is a Swiss RegTech start-up that builds and offers tools that transform complex financial regulations into digital compliance rules, which are constantly up-to-date and verified. The rules are consumable via an App or can be integrated directly into banking processes through an easy-to-use API. Its cutting-edge technology provides legal and compliance teams with full visibility and control over their digital rule sets and empowers client advisors to serve their clients more efficiently and in a fully compliant manner. Apiax was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Lastline

Venture Round in 2013
Lastline provides a malware protection platform to detect and stop advanced persistent threats, zero-day exploits, and evasive malware. The company was founded in 2011 by world-renowned security researchers and creators of Anubis and Wepawet – malware analysis tools used by thousands of security vendors, enterprises, and government agencies worldwide. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.

Flowhub

Venture Round in 2021
Flowhub is a cannabis retail software company that helps modern dispensaries thrive by delivering compliance, point of sale, inventory tracking, and business intelligence data from a single, highly-customizable platform. With first-to-market mobile check-in and inventory management applications, Flowhub processes over one billion dollars in cannabis sales annually, and empowers more than 700 cannabis retailers and their partners to grow revenue, simplify compliance, speed checkouts and manage inventory for improved consumer experiences. Flowhub is a privately held company headquartered in Denver.

Braavo Capital

Series A in 2018
Braavo provides revenue-based financing to mobile app and game developers worldwide. Whether you're a an early-stage health and fitness app or a multi-million dollar mobile gaming publisher, Braavo is your partner for flexible, affordable and on-demand financing. Founded in 2015, Braavo is headquartered in New York City. The company has funded nearly half a billion dollars to the top app companies in the world and is backed by investors including e.ventures, SWS Venture Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Upper90, and a number of successful angels and entrepreneurs from the fintech and mobile community.

Say Mine Technologies Ltd.

Private Placement in 2020
Say Mine Technologies Ltd. allows users to control their data by making online privacy rights simple and accessible. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

MoVoxx

Series A in 2008
MoVoxx is a leading mobile advertising company that intelligently serves ads into mobile content reaching over 40 million unique U.S. users. With a fully integrated product suite of mobile media, including SMS, mobile app and display, MoVoxx pioneered tracking and aggregating mobile behaviors to enable advanced targeting and industry-best post-click conversion rates. MoVoxx's GeoSense and MobileTrace technologies empower top digital agencies, national brands and local merchants to launch location-based mobile advertising campaigns on a broad scale. These proprietary technologies include deep post-click analytics tools used to optimize mobile user engagement within targeted audience subsets. Founded in 2006, MoVoxx has a Fortune 500 client roster including Sears, Nissan, Continental Airlines, Ford Motor Company and Paramount Pictures. MoVoxx is backed by Greycroft Partners, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital and BV Capital.

The Family

Venture Round in 2017
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.

Exporo

Series A in 2017
Exporo AG operates a online real estate crowdfunding platform in Germany. Its platform serves as a contact point that fits the needs of private investors, who are seeking for real estate investment opportunities and real estate developers seeking for capital. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

The RealReal

Series C in 2014
The RealReal, Inc. operates an online marketplace for consigned luxury goods. It offers various resale product categories, including women’s, men’s, kids’, jewelry, and watches, as well as home and art products. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.