Participated · Equity · Oct 2024

MobilityPlus offers an all-in-one smart EV charging platform (MobilityPlus eXperience) that provides real-time data, 24/7 support, and intelligent energy management. The company manages over 15,000 charging points in Belgium and France and has roaming access to an additional 550,000 stations across Europe. Its product suite targets B2B clients and real estate customers, and includes a Charging-as-a-Service (CaaS) model to eliminate upfront costs for customers. MobilityPlus plans to use fresh capital to expand its footprint in Belgium and France and to strengthen its technological lead. Leadership says the company will focus on improving user experience, advanced energy management, and solutions that help clients reduce charging costs and meet regulatory requirements. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

MobieTrain offers a microlearning, gamified mobile app with short 5–10 minute modules designed for onboarding and ongoing training of frontline employees. The product uses microlearning, gamification, quizzes, personalization and built-in retention techniques the company says make knowledge transfer up to six times more effective. Clients use the software to improve sales and customer experience, diversify training, support organisational changes, and for safety instructions across sectors such as retail, logistics, hospitality and healthcare. Founded in 2015, the Belgian HR tech scale-up serves over a hundred organisations in thirty countries and lists customers including Decathlon, Emirates Post, Diesel and Proximus. The company has achieved triple-digit growth over the past year, with more than half of its revenue coming from international markets and having more than doubled turnover in 2021. MobieTrain plans to use new funding to accelerate expansion into Germany, France, the UK and other European growth markets, strengthen teams in Genk, Madrid, Milan and Amsterdam, and sustain product development and innovation. MobieTrain offers a gamified mobile microlearning platform with bite-sized, personalized learning tracks and built-in retention techniques designed for deskless and frontline workers. The product roadmap focuses on adding new gamified elements and leveraging algorithms and machine learning to deliver the right content to the right person at the right time. Founded in 2015, the company serves nearly 100,000 users in more than 20 countries and counts clients such as Atlas Copco, Decathlon, Deloitte, Proximus, Diesel, Hästens, and public bodies including the municipality of Antwerp and the Dutch police. During the pandemic MobieTrain quadrupled its revenue and doubled its customer base; currently 50% of revenue comes from outside Belgium. The company has partnerships with SAP SuccessFactors and Goodhabitz and was added to the SAP store to support international expansion. The new funding will be used to further develop the platform, accelerate international growth, and grow the team from 25 to 40 employees. MobieTrain builds a mobile microlearning platform that enables employers to create five- to ten-minute training and retraining courses employees can access on their phones. Its customers include retail brands Diesel, Proximus, Timberland and Vans. The company has around 20 paying customers across 13 countries and is opening a small office in Lisbon where some technical development already takes place. MobieTrain plans to expand in its home market and focus growth on Northwestern Europe while targeting the hospitality and care sectors. Management says it will use artificial intelligence increasingly to personalise learning trajectories. Financially, MobieTrain has just raised €1.8 million from a Limburg investment company, the Concentra Media Group and existing investors, with BNP Paribas Fortis and another major bank providing a loan on top of the capital.

Participated · Debt Financing · Jul 2017

Borrowell is a Toronto-based credit education company that offers free credit scores, educational content, weekly credit monitoring, personalized credit coaching and AI-powered financial product recommendations. The company raised $25M in a funding round that brings its total equity financing to $55M. Proceeds will be used to acquire Refresh Financial, a provider of credit to underserved Canadians, and to support future growth. The acquisition of Refresh Financial doubles Borrowell's revenue and employee base. Borrowell is led by co-founder and CEO Andrew Graham. The company combines consumer credit tools with digital product recommendations to expand its reach in underserved markets. Borrowell offers free credit score and report monitoring, automated credit coaching tools, and AI-driven financial product recommendations. Its AI credit coaching tool, Molly, gives users actions and insights to help improve their credit score and aggregates score, report and personalized recommendations in one place. The company recently released its AI-powered free credit monitoring app to the public after a soft launch; Molly’s beta recorded more than 36,000 downloads. Borrowell generates revenue through a loan service and referral fees when customers use its recommended products. It has partnered with 50 financial services, including major Canadian banks like CIBC, and reports more than one million users, calling itself Canada’s largest consumer fintech by user reach. Following the recent raise, the company plans to continue investing heavily in AI and machine learning. Based in Toronto, Borrowell offers free credit score monitoring, personal loans and tailored product recommendations to help Canadians make better credit decisions. The company has more than 300,000 account holders, with thousands signing up each week. Borrowell plans to use its new funding to expand credit education and scale lending, including ‘one click’ loans to prime consumers. It is making significant investments in data science and artificial intelligence to better predict needs and build financial tools. The business has expanded distribution through partnerships (including with CIBC) and focuses on improving consumer financial well‑being. The new capital will support growth of both its free information services and its loan offerings. Borrowell operates a wholly online platform that offers fast, fixed‑interest personal loans to Canadians as an alternative to high‑interest credit card debt. The company emphasizes a simple, online application that instantly provides personalized loan options to consumers with good credit. Since launching in March 2015, Borrowell has processed over $500 million in loan applications from thousands of Canadians. Borrowell positions itself as technology‑driven marketplace lender and is partnering with strategic investors to accelerate growth and adoption in the Canadian market. The company has attracted capital from financial and technology investors to expand its lending platform and market traction.