Led · Equity · Jun 2022

Odilo provides a white-label, headless e-learning platform that lets businesses and organizations deliver customized on-demand digital libraries in a B2B2C model. The company has assembled a catalogue of about 3.9 million items — roughly 3 million books plus podcasts, full courses and other materials — sourced from some 6,300 publishers in 43 languages. Odilo powers portals for roughly 8,500 customers across 52 countries and serves about 170 million users, including government bodies, libraries, education organizations like MIT, and corporate customers such as Google and Vodafone. The platform emphasizes extensibility via APIs so customers can build tailored learning experiences without exposing the Odilo brand. Odilo plans to use new funding to continue growing its catalogue and to expand deeper into North America and across the African continent. The company was founded in 2012 and recently completed a new growth financing round of €60M ($64M). Odilo offers a platform that lets schools, universities, business schools, corporations, governments and libraries create their own educational “Netflix” or unlimited educational ecosystems. The platform provides access to more than 3 million multiformat titles (ebooks, audiobooks, articles, podcasts, videos and courses) and supports original integrated learning experiences (independent, guided, collaborative, certified, classroom, etc.). Its catalog is sourced from 5,300 content partners in 43 languages and the service reaches more than 146 million users worldwide. Odilo is used by over 6,200 institutions across more than 43 countries. The company plans to use the new funding to boost development of its intelligent learning experience technology, expand its content catalog, and advance global expansion into new markets. Odilo is a Madrid-based technology and digital content company that provides a SaaS platform for managing, distributing, consuming, archiving and preserving all types of digital content, including eBooks, audio, video, images and documents. Its marketplace lets organizations buy digital content to offer users on a loan, rental or subscription basis. Odilo serves libraries (public, private, university, school, and special interest), hospitals, governments, businesses, and travel and hospitality customers in more than 40 countries. The company holds distribution rights to 1.3 million digital content materials from over 2,500 publishers in 42 languages. Led by CEO Rodrigo Rodriguez, Odilo plans to use the new funds to launch new products, accelerate technological development and continue international expansion across Europe, Latin America, North America and Australia. Odilo, based in Madrid and led by CEO Rodrigo Rodriguez, has developed a digital content management and lending platform that allows entities with large user bases to offer on-demand access to digital content through a pay-per-consumption model. The company markets a Content as a Service (CaaS) business and has been deployed as the technological platform for Spain's eBiblio, Chile's national e-book library, and the Cervantes Institute. Described as a leader in the Spanish-speaking market, Odilo has won public contracts across Europe, Latin America and North America. In the United States it was awarded the contract to deliver digital content to the entire State of Michigan. Following these deployments, the company has undertaken an internationalization process. Odilo intends to use the new funding to continue international expansion and strengthen its CaaS offering. Odilo provides a suite of products for lending digital content to libraries, schools, universities, associations, corporations and municipalities. Its technology enables more than 5 million users to access digital content through those institutions. The company has completed projects including the first state-wide network for U.S. libraries to lend e-books and the national network of libraries in Chile. Odilo is creating an open platform selling digital content licenses in Spanish (OdiloPlace) and a library management system that integrates physical and digital lending (OdiloTT). Founded in April 2011 and led by CEO Rodrigo Rodriguez, Odilo has offices in Madrid, New York, Miami and Cartagena. It intends to use new funds to accelerate growth in the U.S. and Latin America.

Led · Series B · Apr 2022

Productsup provides a product-to-consumer (P2C) platform that manages all product-to-consumer information value chains across any system, channel, or technology. The company serves brands, retailers, service providers, and marketplaces and works with over 900 global clients. Productsup processes over two trillion products a month and employs more than 250 people. Leadership includes Vincent Peters (CEO) and Marcel Hollerbach (Co‑Founder and Chief Innovation Officer). The company plans to use new funding to advance product development, pursue merger and acquisition opportunities, strengthen its partner network, and expand into new markets. Productsup is based in Berlin, Germany. Productsup provides a SaaS platform that allows brands and retailers to optimize and syndicate product content to digital marketing, shopping and business channels such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Walmart. The platform is used by more than 800 businesses worldwide, including five Fortune 20 companies and customers like IKEA, Beiersdorf, ALDI and Superdry. Led by CEO and co-founder Johannis Hatt, the company focuses on enabling product feed management and channel-specific content optimization. Productsup plans to use new funding for product development and to scale marketing and sales initiatives. The company also intends to expand its ecommerce data integration solutions into new markets, particularly in North America. To date the company has raised $45M in total funding.

Led · Equity · Jul 2021

Teamwork provides a SaaS project management platform tailored to Client Services companies, enabling teams to track, manage, and invoice projects. It includes a suite of integrated solutions such as helpdesk, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and CRM add-ons, positioning itself as a one-stop practice management solution. Founded in 2007 by Peter Coppinger and Daniel Mackey and based in Cork, Ireland, the platform is used by more than 20,000 teams across 170 countries. The company has offices in five countries and a global team of 270 employees in Cork, Boston, Belfast, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. Teamwork recently completed its first-ever fundraise of $70M from Bregal Milestone. The company plans to work with Bregal Milestone’s Milestone Performance Partners to accelerate growth, invest in product development initiatives, and expand globally.

Led · Equity · Jun 2021

Uberall offers a platform and dashboard that connects and updates businesses' listings across local search, maps, review sites and social apps, enabling centralized management of addresses, hours and customer reviews. The product includes tools to push updates automatically, monitor unofficial or incorrect listings, respond to reviews, and run location-based advertising. Uberall serves retail and brick-and-mortar customers, helping them scale accurate location information across a fragmented ecosystem of discovery services. The company says its platform manages the online presence for 1.35 million business locations and counts customers such as BP, KFC, Marks & Spencer, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. Uberall is expanding its capabilities and U.S. presence via the acquisition of MomentFeed, whose sentiment-analysis tools will be integrated into the wider platform. Financially, Uberall announced a $115 million funding infusion that sources peg at roughly a $500 million valuation and is using the capital to scale product and reach. Uberall offers a Software-as-a-Service product that lets SMEs and larger multi-location companies manage their location marketing across search engines, directories, online maps, navigation services and social platforms. The platform synchronises listings and location data to services such as Google, Bing, Apple Maps, HERE, Waze, TomTom, Facebook, Foursquare and Yelp. Founded in 2013, the company serves more than 1,500 customers and—post-acquisition of Navads—covers nearly 700,000 locations globally. Uberall acquired Navads to bolster its listings and location data management, gaining access to Navads’ technology used by over 800 brands across four continents, including Shell, BP and McDonald’s. Management says the deal strengthens Uberall’s position as the second-biggest location marketing platform behind Yext and emphasizes its presence in the U.S. The recent capital raise was positioned to support the acquisition and further growth. Uberall offers a cloud-based SaaS that centralizes location marketing for SMEs and larger companies with multiple stores, allowing single-point submission and management across search engines, directories, maps, social channels, and navigation services. The platform supports roughly 100 services and injects structured data (location, opening times, menus, facilities) to improve listings and visibility. Beyond listings, Uberall provides review and engagement management tools and a location-based advertising product, and charges a monthly fee per business location. The company serves both well-known enterprise clients and SMEs, and distributes via partners such as 1&1 Internet, Swisscom, Sensis, Vendasta, and OVH. Uberall plans to use new capital for product development and international expansion, with a particular focus on the U.S.

Led · Equity · Jan 2021

M-Files provides an intelligent, repository-neutral platform that leverages metadata and artificial intelligence to break down information silos and unify systems, data and content across an organization. The platform embeds within popular digital workplace applications including Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Google Workspace to let users access and manage documents where they work. M-Files operates on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, which the company says continues to propel its strong growth. The company serves thousands of customers in over 100 countries and has more than 500 employees across 11 global offices. Leadership has emphasized continued product development, AI and cloud platform innovation as priorities following the new investment. Management plans to use the funding to accelerate growth and further expand market penetration, especially in North America. M-Files provides an enterprise information management (EIM) platform for managing front-office and back-office business operations. Its solution classifies content based on relevance rather than location and employs search, auto-classification and machine learning to manage information without migration or duplication. The platform integrates with core business systems including Documentum, OpenText, SharePoint, Box, Salesforce and SAP to unify documents and other unstructured content. Led by executive chairman Jim Geary, M-Files serves customers such as SAS, OMV and NBC Universal and maintains a global partner network of over 450 partners in more than 100 countries. The company raised $36M in a Series B round to accelerate sales and marketing, strengthen its partner network and expand into new markets in North America, EMEA and APAC. The round was led by Partech Ventures with participation from Finnish Industry Investment and Draper Esprit. M-Files provides a metadata-based enterprise content management solution that manages information by what it is rather than by folder location, supporting on-premise, cloud, and hybrid storage. Its interface exposes files via the Windows Explorer UI and supports standard File Open/Save commands, while integrating with CRM, ERP and accounting systems including Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics (GP, AX, NAV, online), and NetSuite. The company says its approach modernizes enterprise document management by surfacing content via metadata rather than traditional folder hierarchies. M-Files has expanded from its Tampere, Finland base and already counts enterprise customers in the U.S. such as AstraZeneca, SAS, Pandora, the United Nations, Northrop Grumman, Charles Schwab, Hecla Mining, and Hill+Knowlton. It raised a €6 million (~$7.8M) Series A to fund growth, with stated plans to accelerate U.S. expansion and bolster sales and marketing through partner channels. As part of the financing announcement, Jim Geary, Bob Suh and DFJ Esprit’s Mikko Suonenlahti joined the board of directors.