Nect
Venture Round in 2025
Nect GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in software solutions for identity verification. The company offers products such as SELFIE IDENT, which facilitates digital remote identity verification to comply with legal standards, ensuring the legitimacy and liveliness of users. Additionally, Nect provides CARD IDENT, an application that verifies document holders and extracts document data, serving as a technological aid for bank consultants and insurance brokers. By leveraging advanced biometric algorithms and artificial intelligence, Nect aims to simplify the onboarding process for users in regulated industries, addressing a significant market demand for secure, automated identity verification solutions.
EvoluteIQ
Venture Round in 2024
Founded in 2019, EvoluteIQ develops intelligent process automation software. Its platform integrates process orchestration, data processing, AI/ML, enterprise connectivity, and low-code application development to create seamless user journeys.
ELG E-Learning-Group
Venture Round in 2024
ELG E-Learning-Group in an online learning platform.
DealCircle
Venture Round in 2024
DealCircle is a digital platform facilitating mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It connects M&A advisors with relevant buyers using data-driven matching. The platform offers an anonymous deal marketplace, enhancing efficiency in creating high-quality longlists for sell-side mandates.
WeAreDevelopers
Venture Round in 2024
WeAreDevelopers operates a Europe-leading developer career platform that connects software professionals with technology companies through a dedicated job marketplace, curated content, and live events. The company runs the WeAreDevelopers World Congress, an annual conference attracting thousands of attendees and featuring prominent speakers, and provides talent acquisition and employer branding solutions, including company pages and recruiting lounges. It publishes technology content and magazines to inform the developer community. Headquartered in Vienna with offices in Berlin and Sarajevo, the company serves developers and employers across Europe by facilitating hiring, knowledge sharing, and networking in the software and tech infrastructure domain.
Zen Educate
Series B in 2024
Founded in 2017, Zen Educate operates an online platform that connects supply teachers with schools. It offers automated booking, compliance checks, and real-time availability updates for substitute teachers and support staff, helping educational institutions manage temporary staffing needs efficiently.
Betterspace
Venture Round in 2023
Betterspace is a provider of comprehensive digital solutions tailored for the hotel industry. The company focuses on enhancing hotel management through a platform that integrates smart assistants for guest communication and energy management systems, including intelligent room control. By leveraging this technology, Betterspace aims to simplify the daily operations of hoteliers, ultimately leading to increased revenue, reduced operating costs, and streamlined processes. Their holistic approach to digitization supports hotels in improving efficiency and enhancing the guest experience.
Phyron
Venture Round in 2023
Phyron is a Swedish SaaS company specializing in an AI-driven video generation platform tailored for the automobile industry. The company's innovative technology automates the creation of promotional videos by identifying the unique selling points of both new and used vehicles. It seamlessly transforms various inputs, including images, brand videos, text, data, and web links, into engaging videos. These videos can be utilized for sales promotion across websites, social media, showrooms, and other sales presentations. Phyron's solution offers a fully automated process with virtually unlimited capacity, enabling businesses to enhance their marketing efforts efficiently.
Testbirds
Debt Financing in 2023
Testbirds GmbH is a crowdtesting company based in Munich, Germany, with additional offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Hungary. Founded in 2011, the company specializes in testing mobile applications across various platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone, and Blackberry OS, as well as web applications such as online stores, websites, and games. Testbirds offers a range of services designed to enhance the functionality and user-friendliness of digital products, including exploratory and structured bug testing, usability studies, localization testing, and competitor analysis. The company caters to a diverse clientele, from large multinational corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, helping them improve product quality and accelerate development processes.
Smartlockr
Series A in 2023
Smartlockr provides a data protection platform designed to prevent email data leaks. It targets human error as the main breach vector and uses machine learning to make data security intuitive and broadly applicable. The platform enables secure communication without disrupting workflows, raises awareness to prevent sending sensitive information to the wrong recipient, and supports regulatory compliance, thereby reducing the risk of data breaches and allowing organizations to focus on their core business.
Actindo
Venture Round in 2023
Actindo offers a cloud-native digital operations platform that enables digital sales and omnichannel commerce. It blends a headless digital commerce ERP with an integration platform as a service to form a complete commerce operating system for current and future digital contact points. The cloud ERP supports digitization across core processes such as inventory management, financial accounting, and point-of-sale, and it functions as middleware and a data hub to connect diverse systems. The platform can underpin eCommerce platforms, marketing automation, and machine learning/AI capabilities, delivering unified operations, commerce, and data management across channels.
Myra Security
Funding Round in 2023
Myra Security GmbH, founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in developing a Security-as-a-Service platform aimed at safeguarding digital business processes. The company offers a robust cloud security suite designed to protect websites and IT infrastructures from web attacks. Myra Security's advanced technology continuously monitors, analyzes, and filters harmful internet traffic, effectively preventing cyber threats before they can inflict damage. By delivering certified security solutions, Myra Security sets a new standard in global IT security, ensuring clients can operate their digital environments safely and efficiently.
Avallain
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2002, Avallain specializes in digital learning solutions. It offers a suite of products including an e-learning authoring tool (Avallain Author), an end-to-end learning management system (Avallain Magnet), and a customizable learning platform architecture (Avallain Unity). These tools facilitate content creation, delivery, personalization, analysis, and enterprise integration for educational publishers, schools, universities, and corporate training teams.
Sales Impact Academy
Debt Financing in 2022
Sales Impact Academy is a London‑based learning platform founded in 2019 that provides live, instructor‑led courses and a peer‑to‑peer community for sales and marketing professionals. The platform delivers structured, high‑design learning experiences that help users craft go‑to‑market strategies, create compelling messaging, and build inbound and outbound lead‑generation systems. It hosts more than 70 instructors, including former executives from HubSpot, Gong, Tableau, and other leading technology firms, and serves over 12,000 learners across 280 customers such as PayPal, HubSpot, GitHub, and Klaviyo. The subscription model offers continuous, on‑demand training at a cost‑effective price point.
Vainu
Funding Round in 2021
Vainu is a sales intelligence platform based in Helsinki, Finland, that aims to enhance the efficiency of sales prospecting by transforming disorganized open and big data into actionable insights. The platform provides businesses with access to a database of over 108 million companies, enriched with relevant information to help identify valuable sales prospects and timely prospecting signals. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Vainu empowers sales professionals to improve their effectiveness and achieve better results. Currently, more than 1,000 organizations and over 10,000 individual users utilize Vainu to streamline their sales processes, ultimately increasing their productivity and success rates in securing new clients.
Sales Impact Academy
Debt Financing in 2021
Sales Impact Academy is a London‑based learning platform founded in 2019 that provides live, instructor‑led courses and a peer‑to‑peer community for sales and marketing professionals. The platform delivers structured, high‑design learning experiences that help users craft go‑to‑market strategies, create compelling messaging, and build inbound and outbound lead‑generation systems. It hosts more than 70 instructors, including former executives from HubSpot, Gong, Tableau, and other leading technology firms, and serves over 12,000 learners across 280 customers such as PayPal, HubSpot, GitHub, and Klaviyo. The subscription model offers continuous, on‑demand training at a cost‑effective price point.
Portagon is a technology company that offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed to facilitate online capital raising for financial intermediaries and businesses. Recognized as a pioneer in digital finance, Portagon’s platform allows clients to easily and securely raise and broker capital while providing a fully integrated option to manage transactions through their websites. By streamlining the capital-raising process, Portagon enables banks, financial service providers, and brokers to offer their clients alternative financing and investment opportunities. The company is committed to delivering cost-effective and automated solutions that transform the capital raising landscape.
DRACOON specializes in providing a highly secure and platform-independent enterprise file service, addressing the challenges companies face in storing, managing, and sharing data digitally. Their solution, DRACOON, is recognized as the market leader in enterprise file-sharing within the German-speaking region. The company prioritizes data sovereignty and compliance with GDPR standards, ensuring that customers maintain control over their data. DRACOON's service integrates deeply into company processes, offering a secure environment for data and connected applications. Notable clients include KfW, Rossmann, Helios Kliniken, and Deutsche Telekom, among others. The platform is available both in the cloud and as an on-premises version, adhering to stringent safety standards and certified by ISO27001 and EuroPriSe.
Ancla Logistik
Venture Round in 2021
Ancla Logistik specializes in contract logistics, fulfillment, freight forwarding, and customs services. They tailor each shipping component to clients' needs and scale solutions accordingly. Customers can reach out via phone, email, or online applications.
Myra Security
Funding Round in 2020
Myra Security GmbH, founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in developing a Security-as-a-Service platform aimed at safeguarding digital business processes. The company offers a robust cloud security suite designed to protect websites and IT infrastructures from web attacks. Myra Security's advanced technology continuously monitors, analyzes, and filters harmful internet traffic, effectively preventing cyber threats before they can inflict damage. By delivering certified security solutions, Myra Security sets a new standard in global IT security, ensuring clients can operate their digital environments safely and efficiently.
jacando
Debt Financing in 2020
jacando AG is a Swiss company founded in 2012 that specializes in cloud software solutions for human resource management. Based in Basel, jacando offers an integrated suite of applications designed to streamline various HR functions, including recruiting, talent management, time tracking, and project management. Its product offerings encompass jacando Match, Admin, Talent, and Time, each aimed at enhancing collaboration and efficiency within organizations. The platform allows for automated recruitment processes, project-related billing, and flexible working time models, thereby providing HR professionals with innovative tools to improve operational effectiveness and reduce costs. Through its holistic approach, jacando seeks to facilitate the digital transformation of HR practices.
XroadMedia
Debt Financing in 2020
XroadMedia GmbH, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria, specializes in providing cloud and server-based content discovery, personalization, and recommendation services for the digital media industry. The company offers a suite of solutions including Ncanto, a real-time API that enhances media platforms by delivering advanced personalization services; Yaveo, a business intelligence and analytics platform; and Piloto, a user-friendly interface that allows service providers to make real-time adjustments to the Ncanto back-end. XroadMedia's technology aims to enhance user satisfaction, foster customer loyalty, and create new revenue opportunities for media businesses.
Vainu
Debt Financing in 2019
Vainu is a sales intelligence platform based in Helsinki, Finland, that aims to enhance the efficiency of sales prospecting by transforming disorganized open and big data into actionable insights. The platform provides businesses with access to a database of over 108 million companies, enriched with relevant information to help identify valuable sales prospects and timely prospecting signals. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Vainu empowers sales professionals to improve their effectiveness and achieve better results. Currently, more than 1,000 organizations and over 10,000 individual users utilize Vainu to streamline their sales processes, ultimately increasing their productivity and success rates in securing new clients.
Ocast is a Stockholm-based SaaS platform that offers media publishers a dynamic digital media kit and advertising page, designed for real-time editing and compatibility. The platform serves not only publishers but also influencers, influencer networks, media agencies, and PR agencies, aiming to enhance the efficiency of advertising processes. Ocast provides a comprehensive media toolkit that acts as an inbound channel, attracting advertisers, agencies, and media planners while streamlining workflows and improving operational efficiency. The company collaborates with notable global brands, including eBay Classifieds, Discovery, Bauer Media Sweden, IDG, and Spotify for Brands. Founded in 2016, Ocast is committed to transforming the advertising and media industry through innovative technology.
minubo
Debt Financing in 2019
minubo is a cloud-based eCommerce analytics platform that acts as a central data hub for online retailers. The service unifies data from fragmented sources into a single database with reporting and analysis capabilities built on eCommerce best practice metrics. By connecting multichannel data and providing transparent, metrics-based insights, minubo helps retailers make actionable decisions, optimize sales and profitability, and manage costs across omnichannel operations without imposing complex IT requirements.
Myra Security
Debt Financing in 2019
Myra Security GmbH, founded in 2012 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in developing a Security-as-a-Service platform aimed at safeguarding digital business processes. The company offers a robust cloud security suite designed to protect websites and IT infrastructures from web attacks. Myra Security's advanced technology continuously monitors, analyzes, and filters harmful internet traffic, effectively preventing cyber threats before they can inflict damage. By delivering certified security solutions, Myra Security sets a new standard in global IT security, ensuring clients can operate their digital environments safely and efficiently.
HomeMaker
Debt Financing in 2018
HomeMaker is the digital cloud service for managing options, standard raising and aftermarket issues in new housing production. HomeMaker has been used in more than 216 projects for 35,000 apartments across Sweden.
Flic
Debt Financing in 2018
Shortcut Labs is a technology company that specializes in the development of wireless smart buttons designed to provide physical shortcuts for digital functions on mobile devices. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a unique product that allows users to trigger applications, services, and tasks on their phones, tablets, or computers with the simple press of a button. These buttons are sold in packs for retail and as individual units through the company's website. In addition to the hardware, Shortcut Labs develops apps for both iOS and Android platforms, and provides an open API to support integration of the buttons with various applications. This innovative approach enables users to conveniently access their devices and perform tasks seamlessly, regardless of their location.
OnTopx
Debt Financing in 2018
OnTopx, founded in 2003, specializes in the manufacturing of LED lighting products, transitioning from an initial focus on advertising lights to a broader application in general lighting by 2008. The company is recognized for its high-quality LED tubes, which are distinguished by their durability and adaptability to various conditions. OnTopx was the first manufacturer to achieve TÜV and VDE certifications for its LED tubes, reflecting its commitment to safety and performance. In addition to these certifications, the company maintains various other standards related to fire protection and breakage resistance. With a focus on customer satisfaction, OnTopx combines the expertise of Swiss and German engineers to ensure efficient production processes while upholding the integrity of its product claims.