Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996, with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva. The firm focuses on partnering with entrepreneurs to transform innovative ideas into successful global businesses. It invests in a diverse range of sectors, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, fintech, healthcare, and mobility. Index Ventures has a notable track record of supporting high-profile companies such as Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, and Slack, reflecting its commitment to fostering technology-driven enterprises. By leveraging its extensive experience and network, Index Ventures aims to empower exceptional founders in reshaping industries and driving forward the future of business.

Nina Achadjian

Partner

Julia Andre

Principal / Partner

Damir Becirovic

Partner

Sofia Dolfe

Principal, Partner

Paula Garcia Domingo

Partner and Investor

Fiorentino, Mark

Partner

Giacomo Genzini

Partner and Investor

Kyle Harrison

Principal

Paris Heymann

Partner and Investor

Jacob Jofe

Executive, Strategist

Jack Kleeman

Partner

Erik Kriessmann

Talent Partner / Vice President + Head of Human Capital

Stephane Kurgan

Venture Partner

Ma, Adrianna C.

Operating Partner

Bryan Offut

Principal / Partner

Bryan Offutt

Partner and Investor

Shimin Ooi

Partner

Cyriac Parisot

VC Investor and Head of Data

Neil Rimer

General Partner, Founder

Danny Rimer

Partner

Jahanvi Sardana

Partner

Hannah Seal

Principal / Partner

Kimihiko Shindo

General Partner

Ishani Thakur

Partner and investor

Kelly Toole

Partner

Dominique Vidal

Venture Partner

Wilhelm, Katharina

Principal, Partner

Catherine Wu

Partner

Past deals in Series E

Personio

Series E in 2022
Personio GmbH is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

Alan

Series E in 2022
Alan provides online digital insurance services focusing on health and wellness. The company offers health insurance services, providing solutions tailored to the needs of different types of businesses. It provides simple and seamless insurance coverage and easy claim handling. It gives access to medical professionals for users to easily and conveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements.

Fireblocks

Series E in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a blockchain-based security service platform that provides a secure solution for managing digital asset operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Fireblocks specializes in protecting the transmission of digital assets between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. The platform is designed for financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, exchanges, liquidity providers, over-the-counter brokers, and hedge funds, allowing them to securely manage their digital assets. Fireblocks employs advanced technologies such as patent-pending chip isolation security and multi-party computation (MPC) to ensure the safe transfer and availability of assets across various environments.

Expel

Series E in 2021
Expel is a security operations provider that offers managed detection and response (MDR), remediation, phishing support, and threat hunting. Expel’s technology and people work together — each doing what they do best — to detect, understand, and fix issues fast. The collaborative experience in the Expel Workbench™ platform enables customers to choose how they run their security operations — whether that’s following along with live investigations, or receiving alerts at every step from when an investigation starts until it’s done. This unmatched transparency means customers always know what’s happening in their investigations into incidents like business email compromise (BEC), business application compromise (BAC), phishing, ransomware, cryptojacking, and supply chain attacks, to name a few. This allows security operations center (SOC) teams to dedicate their time to strategic security priorities rather than sifting through alerts.

Personio

Series E in 2021
Personio GmbH is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

Glossier

Series E in 2021
Glossier is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that leverages content and community to power a superior shopping experience. Their skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance products are sold in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom directly through Glossier and in their New York City showroom.

Figma

Series E in 2021
Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. Born in the browser, Figma helps the entire product team create, test, and ship better designs, faster. Whether the company tries to consolidate tools, get more eyes on your work, or collaborate across time zones, Figma boosts creative productivity while keeping everyone on the same page. On a mission to make design accessible to all, Figma is helping companies like Airbnb, Slack, and Microsoft redesign how they design.

Motive

Series E in 2021
Motive is a technology company building technology to improve the safety, productivity, sustainability, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Combined with AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks. Motive serves small businesses across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. Motive is a fully unified integrated operations platform, combining driver safety, fleet management, equipment monitoring, and spend management all in one place.

Scale AI

Series E in 2021
Scale AI develops a data-oriented platform that provides training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. The company's LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like Lyft, OpenAI, Zoox, Pinterest, and Airbnb to focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data.

Cockroach Labs

Series E in 2021
Cockroach Labs, Inc. specializes in developing open-source database software, notably CockroachDB, which is a distributed SQL database tailored for modern cloud applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company also has an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CockroachDB is designed to scale horizontally and can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, while maintaining minimal latency and no need for manual intervention. It supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data management. The software is suitable for diverse clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and is utilized for enterprise-grade disaster recovery services. CockroachDB combines the rich features of SQL with the scalability typically associated with NoSQL databases, enabling developers to innovate rapidly without compromising on consistency. The platform is trusted by major enterprises across various sectors, including finance, retail, and media.

Stack Overflow

Series E in 2020
Stack Overflow is a platform for developers and programmers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges. It helps programmers get answers to their toughest coding questions, share knowledge with their coworkers in private, and find their next dream job. Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky co-founded Stack Overflow in 2008 in New York, New York.

Confluent

Series E in 2020
Confluent, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a data platform for real-time data integration, stream processing, and analytics. The company’s offerings include a suite of products based on Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system that facilitates the collection and processing of data from various sources. Key products include Confluent Cloud, a managed streaming data service; Confluent Operator, which manages Apache Kafka on Kubernetes; KSQL, an open-source streaming SQL engine for interactive queries; and ksqlDB, an event streaming database. Confluent's platform empowers organizations to create a real-time data pipeline, enabling immediate action on data insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a range of sectors, including financial services, retail, automotive, and government, and generates most of its revenue from subscriptions and services primarily in the United States. The company also has additional offices in several major cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Justworks

Series E in 2020
Justworks, Inc. offers a cloud-based platform that simplifies payroll, benefits, human resources, and compliance for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a comprehensive solution that allows businesses to efficiently manage employment-related responsibilities. Its services include access to affordable health insurance and employee benefits, streamlined payroll processing, and tools for compliance and documentation management. Justworks also offers 24/7 human support and on-demand expertise to assist entrepreneurs in navigating workforce management challenges. By leveraging a professional employer organization model, Justworks enables businesses to achieve cost savings and enhance their employee benefits offerings.

Culture Amp

Series E in 2019
Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running in them. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.

Trustpilot

Series E in 2019
Trustpilot is a global review platform that enables consumers to share and discover reviews of businesses, fostering a transparent marketplace. With over 58 million reviews covering more than 270,000 domains, it serves as a valuable resource for individuals making purchasing decisions. The platform offers companies tools to harness consumer feedback, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business improvement. Trustpilot's reviews attract over 3 billion views monthly from users worldwide, reflecting its significant reach and influence. Headquartered in multiple cities, including Copenhagen, London, and New York, Trustpilot employs around 700 individuals from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing its commitment to a multicultural work environment. The company's mission is to bridge the gap between consumers and businesses, ultimately creating better experiences for all stakeholders involved.

Collibra

Series E in 2019
Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation. Collibra accelerates trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights, and algorithms to all Data Citizens. The company's platform breaks down traditional data silos and opens up organizational data, providing trustworthy business intelligence, enabling users to find the data they need, collaborate on it, and easily understand its meaning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium.

Metromile

Series E in 2018
Metromile, Inc. is a digital insurance platform based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in pay-per-mile car insurance. Using a wireless device called Metromile Pulse, which connects to a vehicle's onboard diagnostics port, the company tracks real-time mileage along with location and driving behavior. This data-driven approach allows Metromile to offer personalized auto insurance policies, providing significant savings—averaging 47% compared to traditional insurers. The platform also features automated claims processing and smart driving tools to enhance user experience. In addition to its insurance offerings, Metromile licenses its technology to insurance companies globally, enabling them to improve efficiency and reduce fraud through advanced data analytics.

Discord

Series E in 2018
Discord operates as a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with friends and communities. It was originally created for people who loved to play games, but these passionate people realized it could be enjoyed for more purposes. Discord is now used by everyone from local hiking clubs, to art communities, to study groups.

Wealthfront

Series E in 2018
Wealthfront Inc. is a privately owned investment manager based in Redwood City, California, that primarily serves individuals, including high net worth clients and organizations. The firm focuses on integrating investing and saving products to assist young professionals in building long-term wealth across various market conditions. Wealthfront offers high-yield savings, diversified investment options, and low-cost loans through its automated wealth management platform, which is accessible via a mobile application. The company's robo-advisor facilitates investment account openings, providing users with access to investment strategies and comprehensive financial planning services. Wealthfront currently manages over $30 billion for more than 500,000 clients in the United States and has received numerous accolades for its services, including recognition as a leading automated investment app and robo-advisor.

Roblox

Series E in 2017
Roblox is a platform for online gaming and entertainment that provides a communal digital experience that unites individuals via play. It enables anyone to imagine, create, and have fun with friends as they explore interactive 3D experiences produced by developers using their desktop design tool, Roblox Studio.

Notonthehighstreet

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

DoubleDutch

Series E in 2015
Developer of a live engagement marketing platform intended to capture actionable data at every touch point. The company's platform offers event program analytics, attendee logistics tools, marketing automation, CRM and promotion tools, enabling businesses to foster authentic connections through live events and increase revenue.

Slack

Series E in 2015
Slack Technologies, Inc. operates a business communication platform that enhances collaboration among teams by integrating messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing, and workflow automation. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Slack serves a diverse clientele ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, aiming to streamline communication and improve productivity. The platform is delivered as a software-as-a-service solution, allowing users to connect with the right people and information efficiently. Additionally, Slack has established the Slack Fund, an investment initiative focused on early-stage ventures in the technology sector, further promoting innovation in workplace productivity tools.

Outbrain

Series E in 2013
Outbrain is a recommendation platform that enhances the open web by helping online consumers discover new content through personalized recommendation feeds. The company connects advertisers with targeted audiences, facilitating engagement through its advertising platform. Outbrain delivers ads that appear as links to articles, products, and videos on the websites of its media partners. Revenue is generated from advertisers based on user interactions with these ads. The company operates primarily in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, with a significant presence in the United States and other regions.

Lookout

Series E in 2013
Lookout, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in cloud-based technology solutions for mobile security. It offers personal security applications for both Android and iOS devices, focusing on mobile threat protection and theft prevention. Lookout's product suite also includes the Mobile Intelligence Center, which facilitates real-time access to mobile threat data, and an App Vetting API that secures enterprise and commercial app stores. The company aims to empower organizations to implement Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, ensure compliance, and combat advanced mobile threats. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Lookout has expanded its presence with offices in several global locations, including Boston, London, and Tokyo. It serves a diverse clientele, including enterprises, government agencies, and millions of consumers, by providing solutions that safeguard sensitive data across devices, applications, networks, and clouds.

Zuora

Series E in 2013
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that enables companies in various industries to launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business. The firm offers Zuora Central platform that acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates the subscription order-to-cash process, including quoting, billing, collections, analytics, and revenue recognition. I

Pure Storage

Series E in 2013
Pure Storage is a U.S.-based company that specializes in enterprise data storage solutions, designed to leverage flash memory technology for enhanced performance and efficiency. Its products are tailored for various applications, including server and desktop virtualization, databases, and cloud computing, facilitating the deployment of flash storage within data centers while managing space and power constraints. The company generates revenue through two primary channels: the sale of integrated storage hardware and operating system software, and subscription services, which encompass Evergreen Storage, Pure as-a-Service, Cloud Block Store, and Portworx, along with professional services for installation and implementation. By transforming data storage management, Pure Storage aims to significantly increase performance while reducing complexity and costs for organizations.

OpenX

Series E in 2013
OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensure marketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps.

MyHeritage

Series E in 2012
MyHeritage is a platform dedicated to helping individuals discover, preserve, and share their family history. It offers DNA testing services that facilitate the creation of family trees and the search for relatives. Through its user-friendly platform and DNA kits, MyHeritage enables users to explore their ancestry and connect with long-lost family members, making it accessible for anyone to embark on a meaningful journey into their past. This service aims to empower consumers to treasure their family stories for future generations.

Privalia

Series E in 2010
Privalia is an e-commerce website that enables users to buy and sell fashion and household products. Customers can search for goods based on brand name or product type. Privalia sells clothing products such as tops, cardigans and sweaters, jackets, shoes, accessories, sportswear, and swimwear for men, women, and children. The products in the home and décor tab are classified as kitchen and dining, furniture, textile, electronics and gadgets, suitcases, and leisure. L’Oreal Professionnel, Fred Perry, McGregor, Dr. Scholl, Troll kids, Kayoom, La Morena, and Mr. Fox are of the brands available on the website. Privalia has an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil and was launched in 2006 by Jose Manuel Villanueva and Lucas Carne, and is operated from Barcelona, Spain.

Etsy

Series E in 2010
Etsy, Inc. operates online marketplaces primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, and Germany, connecting buyers and sellers of handmade, vintage, and craft items. The company offers a diverse range of approximately 66 million products across various categories, including clothing, jewelry, craft supplies, and home goods. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Etsy provides seller services such as payment processing through Etsy Payments, advertising via Etsy Ads, and discounted shipping labels for sellers in select countries. Additionally, it offers tools like the Shop Manager dashboard for inventory and order management, Targeted Offers for promotions, and educational resources for sellers. With significant gross merchandise volume and a growing user base of over 96 million buyers and 9 million sellers as of 2023, Etsy has established itself as a key player in the e-commerce market.

Zend

Series E in 2010
Zend Technologies Ltd. specializes in solutions for developing, deploying, and managing PHP applications, which are essential for many web and mobile platforms. The company offers a range of products including Z-Ray, a PHP debugging tool, and Zend Server, an integrated platform that streamlines the application lifecycle from development to production. Additional offerings include Zend Studio, an environment for mobile application development, and Zend Guard, which protects applications from unauthorized use. Zend also provides Apigility for API development and Zend Framework for building PHP applications. The company serves a diverse clientele, from small businesses to large enterprises, and its solutions are accessible through partnerships and an online store. With operations in multiple countries and partnerships with major technology firms, Zend Technologies aims to enhance the reliability, performance, and security of PHP applications in both on-premise and cloud environments. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Zend operates as a subsidiary of Rogue Wave Software, Inc.

CinemaNow

Series E in 2006
CinemaNow is an Internet provider of premium on-demand movies and video content. CinemaNow legally offers downloads of more than 4,000 feature-length films, shorts, music concerts and television programs from more than 250 licensors including 20th Century Fox, ABC News, Disney, HDNet, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, NBC Universal, Sony, Sundance Channel and Warner Bros.
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