• Ctrl Alt

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

  Ctrl Alt, founded in 2020 by Matt Ong, provides API and white-label capabilities that let investment platforms access alternative assets like property and green energy within their brand and dashboard. The company serves investment platforms and asset owners by simplifying the capital-raising process for alternative assets. Ctrl Alt is based in London, UK and Dundalk, Ireland. It raised €2.5M in a funding round led by Forward Partners and Middlegame Ventures. The round included participation from Enterprise Ireland, Algorand Ventures, 365.fintech, Syndicate Room, Marc Cohen (Unbundled VC), Omid Ashtari (ex-Google, ex-President Citymapper) and Alex Macdonald (Co-Founder of sequel & Velocity Black). The company intends to use the funds to scale its technology, operations and compliance teams in Ireland.

• Tapline

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2022

  Tapline offers non-dilutive financing to B2B SaaS and subscription businesses by pre-financing future receivables, supported by AI-driven credit technology. It can fund companies with as little as €15K MRR and also provides advanced AI-powered analytics. The platform serves clients across Germany, Estonia, the Czech Republic, and Poland, with further expansion plans to be announced. Tapline combines credit assessment technology with larger ticket sizes to address liquidity gaps faced by subscription businesses. The company has raised capital to scale operations, expand its platform, and continue serving existing customers while remaining capital-light through a bespoke debt facility. Tapline provides revenue-based financing (RBF) that delivers non-dilutive working capital to startups based on monthly recurring revenue, using an algorithmic underwriting process that can fund businesses in less than 48 hours. The company focuses on serving SaaS businesses in the DACH and CEE regions and will provide financing to companies with MRR levels as low as €8,000. Tapline emerged from stealth alongside its public reveal and highlights a founding team—Dean Hastie, Dmitrij Miller, and Peter Grouev—with more than 25 years of relevant experience. The business plans to use new capital to enhance its current solution and to hire in marketing and product. Tapline is entering an increasingly crowded RBF market and faces competitive pressure, including a recently released AI-driven offering tied to the team behind EQT Ventures’ Motherbrain. The company combines algorithmic underwriting with a low-MRR entry point to target underserved smaller SaaS firms.

• Velaris

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2022

  Velaris provides an AI-driven customer success platform aimed at B2B tech companies, offering a single-pane solution and a frictionless UX to increase adoption of customer experience data. The product consolidates siloed customer data from the multiple internal tools used to manage customer touch points and adds advanced reporting and execution capabilities for customer success teams. It targets improved Net Revenue Retention (NRR) through data-driven decisions and machine-led intelligence. Founded in 2021 and based in London, the company emphasizes putting customers at the centre of operations to enable horizontal growth across organizations. Velaris plans to build a machine learning-led intelligence layer, invest in R&D, and expand operations in London, Madrid, and Sri Lanka. The company recently raised external capital (see deal details) to fund these initiatives.

• InvestSuite

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2020

  InvestSuite provides as-a-Service wealth- and investment-management solutions to financial institutions, with products including multi-asset trading (SelfInvestor), quantitative portfolio construction (Optimizer) and portfolio reporting (StoryTeller). The company has expanded its presence across London, Madrid, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Sydney and serves clients on four continents. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Leuven, InvestSuite has been growing steadily and has nearly doubled headcount since March, from 25 to 45 employees, adding multiple senior hires and expanding its development and quant teams. Financially, the startup has raised €9 million to date. Recent fundraising and hiring are aimed at supporting continued global expansion and product development. InvestSuite is a Leuven-based B2B wealthtech company offering AI-based digital investment solutions to financial institutions. Billed as "wealthtech-as-a-service", its product suite includes multi-asset trading (SelfInvestor), quantitative portfolio construction (Optimizer), and portfolio reporting (StoryTeller). The company targets financial institutions that need to meet digital-native customer expectations and compete with disruptive B2C fintechs. Founded in June 2018, InvestSuite raised a €2 million seed extension and has raised €6 million to date. The new funding will be used to expand market reach, grow the team, and develop the product. Management says demand has accelerated over the last six to twelve months and the company is engaging institutions across Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Brazil. Investsuite provides a white-label advisory solution for financial institutions, using investment advice based on a proprietary algorithm. The company targets traditional banks and wealth managers, aiming to accelerate deployment of innovative wealthtech products. It was co-founded by CEO Bart Vanhaeren, an experienced banking specialist, and CTO Laurent Sorber, a PhD in Mathematical Engineering. Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, Investsuite also maintains an office in Warsaw, Poland. In 2019 the startup planned to expand its product range with a next-generation retail trading platform. The company recently raised external capital to support its growth and product expansion.

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