PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next-generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries.
Gen Phoenix is a manufacturer of engineered composite leather products aimed at various industries, including aviation, automotive, marine, and domestic upholstery. The company utilizes a patented, eco-friendly process to combine leather fiber with a high-performance core, resulting in a composition leather that is reliable, consistent, and customizable to meet specific performance criteria. This innovative approach not only enhances the material's durability and functionality but also helps clients reduce waste and improve sustainability, making it a superior alternative to traditional upholstery and cladding materials. Gen Phoenix's products are designed to meet the diverse needs of its clients while maintaining a lower environmental footprint.
EDITED provides retail intelligence and AI-driven data services aimed at helping retailers enhance their margins and boost sales. The company offers a real-time analytics platform that delivers market data, trend insights, and comprehensive product metrics, allowing clients to monitor pricing and assortment effectively. By integrating business analytics with external market data, brands such as Columbia and Inditex can swiftly transform insights into actionable strategies. This enables apparel professionals involved in merchandising, buying, trading, and strategy to make informed decisions and trade more efficiently, ultimately improving their overall market understanding.
Refurbed GmbH is an online marketplace based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in the sale of refurbished electronic goods. Founded in 2017, the company offers a wide range of products, including smartphones, laptops, tablets, TVs, smartwatches, headphones, consoles, cameras, and kitchen appliances. Refurbed distinguishes itself by providing refurbished devices that are renewed through a meticulous 40-step process, ensuring they look and function like new while being offered at prices up to 40% lower than new items. Additionally, all products come with a minimum 12-month guarantee, making them a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective choice for consumers.
PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next-generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries.
Private Equity Round in 2021
FundApps provides automated compliance monitoring services to financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. FundApps is used to monitor over $12 trillion in client assets every day. FundApps tackles the three biggest issues many compliance teams face when determining their responsibility to disclose: keeping track of international regulation, interpreting it correctly and accurately aggregating exposure across portfolios. Their services: Shareholding Disclosure (major shareholding / beneficial ownership, short selling, takeover panels), Sensitive Industries (industries with special significance) and Position Limits (exchange-based limits, with data sourcing and netting & aggregation). They deliver a managed service to their clients, pairing innovative technology with legal knowledge from their dedicated team of compliance experts. Their compliance experts stay up-to-date with over 400 rules in 100+ jurisdictions, providing rules and legal content that let their clients make disclosures faster and more accurately than ever before. Yearly upgrades, server costs and maintenance fees for traditional software are all made redundant with their single yearly subscription fee and seamless, daily updates mean clients are always using the latest and greatest version of their service. They've received multiple awards for their innovation, including being listed in the FinTech50 (50 most ground-breaking FinTech start-ups in Europe) two years in a row. They’re also a member of TechCity UK’s FutureFifty, an industry group containing 50 of the UK’s most disruptive and promising technology startups.
Job&Talent is a leading marketplace focused on connecting individuals with employment opportunities through a sophisticated platform. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Madrid, the company utilizes advanced technology to streamline the hiring process, offering services that include job matching, staff management, staffing, and payroll solutions. This innovative approach enables companies to build agile workforces while providing workers with reliable and flexible job options. In 2022, Job&Talent successfully placed over 340,000 workers in more than 2,500 companies, generating €1.9 billion in revenue. The company operates in ten countries across Europe, the U.S., and Latin America, and has plans for further expansion. With backing from prominent investors, Job&Talent has established itself as the highest-valued unicorn in Spain.
GoCardless Limited provides online payment processing services that facilitate bank-to-bank transfers for businesses. The company offers a range of products, including GoCardless for one-off and recurring payments, GoCardless Pro for creating a recurring payments ecosystem, and Success+, a tool designed to predict and manage payment failures. With connections to over 2,300 banks across Europe, GoCardless enables businesses to collect payments both domestically and internationally while reducing the stress and costs associated with payment collection. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, GoCardless has expanded its presence with offices in Paris, Munich, and Melbourne, serving over 75,000 businesses globally. The company aims to leverage bank account data to enhance decision-making and risk management for its clients.
Defined.ai operates an intelligent data platform that facilitates efficient data workflows for collecting, processing, and enriching training data. By integrating crowdsourcing, advanced tools, and machine learning capabilities, the platform provides customizable workflows to deliver high-quality, project-specific training data. In addition to its marketplace for buying and selling AI data, tools, and models, Defined.ai offers professional services designed to support clients in navigating complex machine learning projects. The company aims to foster a community of AI professionals dedicated to creating fair, accessible, inclusive, and ethical artificial intelligence solutions for the future.
Contentsquare is an AI-powered platform that provides rich and contextual insight through customer behaviors, feelings, and intent. The platform helps brands to transform their businesses digitally using digital experience analytics that allows them to take action through enterprise scale and build customer trust with security, privacy, and accessibility.
EDITED provides retail intelligence and AI-driven data services aimed at helping retailers enhance their margins and boost sales. The company offers a real-time analytics platform that delivers market data, trend insights, and comprehensive product metrics, allowing clients to monitor pricing and assortment effectively. By integrating business analytics with external market data, brands such as Columbia and Inditex can swiftly transform insights into actionable strategies. This enables apparel professionals involved in merchandising, buying, trading, and strategy to make informed decisions and trade more efficiently, ultimately improving their overall market understanding.
Readly International AB is a digital subscription service based in Sweden that provides users with unlimited access to thousands of magazines and newspapers in various local languages. The company aims to be at the forefront of the digital magazine revolution, leveraging the expertise of its management team, which has over 25 years of experience in publishing, digital gaming, and broadcasting. Readly's primary markets include Germany, the UK, Sweden, and France, with Germany being the largest source of revenue. Through its platform, Readly caters to the evolving reading habits of consumers by offering a convenient and comprehensive digital reading experience on tablets and smartphones.
Telensa makes wireless smart city control systems, including the worlds most deployed smart streetlight solution. The company, founded in 2005, was formerly part of renowned electronic design consultancy Plextek, whose wireless technology is used in medical, security, tracking and smart metering applications. Telensa PLANet is the market-leading Central Management System (CMS) for smart streetlights, with over 50 city and regional networks deployed in 8 countries and a project footprint covering over 1 million streetlights. A bi-directional radio-enabled system that allows full control and monitoring of street lighting across a wide area, PLANet pays for itself in lower energy and maintenance costs, and it future-proofs LED investments by providing ongoing adaptation of local lighting levels. Telensa’s Smart Parking reduces congestion, enforcement costs and driver frustration. The solution includes some of the world’s largest deployments such as Moscow and Shenzhen. Fundamental to Telensa’s success is its Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) radio system, which has the unique combination of low cost, long range, long battery life and 2-way communication for massive numbers of devices. With over 9 million devices across 30 countries using UNB, it is easy to see why it is fast becoming the deployment standard for smart city control applications. By deploying a Telensa smart city solution, the city also acquires its very own dedicated smart city network. This enables authorities to take control of their smart city strategy by adding new wireless sensors and by monetising new applications. Taking a different path from the proprietary LPWA ecosystems of firms like Semtech LoRa, Sigfox, Ingenu and Sliver Spring, Telensa is helping to drive the open standards in LPWA networks, including through the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Together with industry leaders including Cisco, Accenture and BT, Telensa is a founding member of the Wireless Internet of Things Forum (WIoTF). Created to drive standards adoption and establish common wide area smart city approaches, the WIoTF is committed to uniting the growing ecosystem and accelerating the adoption of wide-area wireless IoT.
iZettle AB is a financial technology company based in Stockholm, Sweden, that specializes in mobile payment services and applications for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Founded in 2010, iZettle revolutionized the market by introducing the first mini chip card reader designed for smartphones and tablets, enabling seamless payment processing. The company offers a range of products, including the iZettle Card Reader Lite, along with software that enhances payment speed, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding solutions. iZettle serves a diverse clientele across various countries, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Brazil. As of September 2018, iZettle operates as a subsidiary of PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Rightpoint is an independent customer experience agency that focuses on creating seamless digital experiences through insight, strategy, technology, and design. The agency serves over 250 Fortune 1,000 companies, offering services in strategy, site design and development, content management, customer relationship management, commerce, business intelligence, and cloud infrastructure. With a workforce of 350 employees spread across eight offices in the United States, Rightpoint has established itself as a leader in the industry, earning recognition as one of Crain's 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Chicago for four consecutive years. The company's commitment to innovation and excellence enables it to help clients evolve their business practices and improve customer engagement.
Gen Phoenix is a manufacturer of engineered composite leather products aimed at various industries, including aviation, automotive, marine, and domestic upholstery. The company utilizes a patented, eco-friendly process to combine leather fiber with a high-performance core, resulting in a composition leather that is reliable, consistent, and customizable to meet specific performance criteria. This innovative approach not only enhances the material's durability and functionality but also helps clients reduce waste and improve sustainability, making it a superior alternative to traditional upholstery and cladding materials. Gen Phoenix's products are designed to meet the diverse needs of its clients while maintaining a lower environmental footprint.
Huddle is a company based in Hammersmith, United Kingdom, that specializes in providing collaborative workspace solutions and document management services. Founded in 2018, Huddle offers a range of facilities including co-working spaces, private offices, informal break-out areas, and formal boardrooms, which can be tailored to meet the specific needs of businesses. In addition to physical spaces, Huddle also delivers version control, task management, and file request services, enabling users to manage documents effectively. This includes features such as transparent tracking of version changes and comments, ensuring a comprehensive audit trail. The company serves various industries, including accounting, consulting, government, marketing, transportation, logistics, media, construction, engineering, utilities, and managed services.
Sefaira is a company that develops software focused on energy-efficient building design. It offers real-time design performance analysis aimed at architects, engineers, and building designers. The software enables users to assess and compare various design strategies and associated costs, streamlining a process that traditionally required extensive time and effort. By conducting whole-building physics-based analyses, Sefaira allows designers to evaluate factors such as water usage, carbon emissions, and renewable energy potential, thereby facilitating informed decision-making in the design process.
Anesco is a national company focused on reducing carbon emissions through a range of energy services. It collaborates with businesses, local authorities, housing associations, and homeowners to provide energy audits, recommendations, installations, and capital funding plans. The company has managed some of the UK's largest energy efficiency projects and serves as a managing agent for the ECO 4 scheme. Anesco has deployed technologies that generate over 1GW of renewable energy, underscoring its commitment to both renewable energy and energy efficiency. Its services are designed to facilitate the installation of energy efficiency and renewable measures without requiring upfront capital, thereby supporting stakeholders in achieving their sustainability goals.
WEMS is the only wireless building energy management system in the world that is completely wireless and web-enabled. WEMS delivers typical energy savings of 15-30%. Installing their wireless energy management systems is non-intrusive and fast, which helps you realise your building energy efficiency quickly and cost-effectively.
Sefaira is a company that develops software focused on energy-efficient building design. It offers real-time design performance analysis aimed at architects, engineers, and building designers. The software enables users to assess and compare various design strategies and associated costs, streamlining a process that traditionally required extensive time and effort. By conducting whole-building physics-based analyses, Sefaira allows designers to evaluate factors such as water usage, carbon emissions, and renewable energy potential, thereby facilitating informed decision-making in the design process.
Bluewater Bio is an innovative company in the wastewater treatment business, providing a high performance, yet highly cost effective, proprietary wastewater treatment process, called HYBACS.
Private Equity Round in 2012
Anesco is a national company focused on reducing carbon emissions through a range of energy services. It collaborates with businesses, local authorities, housing associations, and homeowners to provide energy audits, recommendations, installations, and capital funding plans. The company has managed some of the UK's largest energy efficiency projects and serves as a managing agent for the ECO 4 scheme. Anesco has deployed technologies that generate over 1GW of renewable energy, underscoring its commitment to both renewable energy and energy efficiency. Its services are designed to facilitate the installation of energy efficiency and renewable measures without requiring upfront capital, thereby supporting stakeholders in achieving their sustainability goals.
Private Equity Round in 2011
Envirogen Technologies, Inc. specializes in developing and supplying treatment systems for groundwater and air, targeting industries such as food and beverage, healthcare, and industrial water treatment. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including the design, construction, and implementation of systems for treating contaminated groundwater, industrial process water, and air streams from both municipal and industrial sources. With over 30 years of experience in water and air treatment, Envirogen focuses on delivering long-term, guaranteed solutions that enhance clients' operational efficiency while helping them meet quality standards and environmental goals. The company is recognized for its lifecycle performance, providing pay-for-performance contracts that ensure the lowest total cost over the lifetime of its installations. Envirogen Technologies is part of the Envirogen Group, which is based in the United Kingdom.