Participated · Equity · May 2026

Objow positions itself as a platform focused on animating and improving the performance of sales networks. The company recently completed a €2 million fundraising round (including €500,000 of debt) involving corporate investors, VCs and business angels. Its director general, Dimitri Dugne, participated in the round as a founder-investor. The public coverage does not provide details on revenue, users, founding year, or location. No specific product road map or future plans beyond the fundraising announcement were reported. Financial details beyond the amount and debt component were not disclosed.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2024

Freto operates a digital broker platform that handles contracting, scheduling, document issuance, monitoring and payments for road cargo, combining technology with offline logistics know-how. The company positions itself as a “digital‑raiz” transportadora able to serve low/medium value industries and manage fully digital journeys while addressing offline market inertia. Since its 2018 founding, Freto reports moving more than 100 million tonnes across over 3.6 million trips, corresponding to R$13 billion in contracted freight. The platform has over 180,000 qualified truck drivers and more than 50 customers across agribusiness, steel, construction, consumer goods and mining. Freto says 99.4% of deliveries occur effectively, 99% are not late, and 70% of contracts are executed within five hours—metrics it uses to drive efficiency and client retention. The company closed a R$12.3 million follow‑on and plans to scale a region‑focused commercial strategy while targeting >50% revenue growth in 2024, more than doubling contribution margin and reaching financial breakeven in the first half of 2024. Freto operates a digital marketplace and 100% digital broker that connects shippers and truck drivers, offering route analysis, flow and cost control for large producers and industrial clients. The company began as an intrapreneurial initiative inside Grupo da Ticket and has since become independent. It aims to become the largest freight platform in Latin America and plans to expand with support from strategic investors. Freto reports more than 125,000 drivers and 300,000 registered vehicles, intermediating over 150,000 tonnes of cargo through roughly 3,500 daily matches. Since the start of the pandemic its app downloads rose 30% and its Play Store rating is 4.4/5; in 2020 the logtech nearly tripled revenue. Leadership has been refreshed with Thomas Gautier, a former Edenred executive, appointed CEO to lead the company’s next phase.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

5Mins is a London-based gamified learning platform that delivers bite-sized, TikTok-style lessons to help companies upskill employees and improve retention. The platform offers over 15,000 digestible lessons from 150+ educators and coaches, covering more than 100 technical skills and workplace “power skills.” The company says it is building a global learning superapp that companies of all sizes can use to upskill everyone and drive innovation. 5Mins plans to use new capital to enhance platform capabilities, including skill analytics and API integrations, and to grow its customer base. CEO and co-founder Saurav Chopra frames the product as a way to build a learning culture and reduce churn by making learning more accessible and engaging. The company positions itself as an alternative to traditional corporate learning by delivering personalized, highly engaging microlearning content.

Led · Series A · Feb 2022

Banked, founded in 2018 and based in London, provides a "Pay by Bank" service that lets shoppers select their bank at checkout and approve payments via their mobile banking app. The company uses open-banking APIs to process payments directly from users' accounts, positioning the service as faster and cheaper than card settlement. Banked has strategic partnerships and previously raised funding from Bank of America. The startup has about 100 staff and says it will grow the team as it expands its US presence in the coming months. Banked recently published a 21-slide pitch deck used to close its latest round. To date the company has raised just over $50 million. Banked is a London-based fintech that offers an alternative to traditional card schemes by enabling consumers to pay without entering financial data or creating an account. Authorizations are biometric, no financial details are shared, and merchants receive funds in real time. The platform embeds incentives and rewards inside the payment process to drive customer engagement and loyalty. Banked says its fees can be up to 90% lower than traditional payment methods and it aims to deliver cheaper payments, lower fraud and instant refunds. It competes with TrueLayer, Trustly and Volt but presents a more end-to-end experience rather than just rails and infrastructure. Financially, the company raised a £2.35M seed in 2020 and has now raised more than $30 million in total to date. Banked builds account-to-account payment software that uses open banking/PSD2 to initiate payments directly from a payee’s bank account, enabling near real-time settlement. The platform charges a single low processing fee of 0.1%, which it says is a fraction of the typical 1–4% market rate, and claims it can reduce fraud by about 96% because authentication is handled by customers' banks. Banked exited beta last month and targets use cases where cash flow and high processing fees are critical, including wallet top-ups, trading apps, car financing, charities, and high-value e-commerce. The company emphasizes empowering merchants to offer the payment option while leveraging consumers' trusted relationships with their banks. Longer term, Banked plans to move beyond payment initiation into checkout features, commercial relationships with banks, and partnerships around loyalty, insurance and other checkout services. Banked is a London-based fintech that raised £1.5m in seed funding led by Backed VC. The company will use the funds to continue developing its product and plans to release its first product in early 2019. Banked's platform connects people’s bank account data to third-party applications, allowing users to make informed decisions and enabling direct payments. Information is delivered via APIs and supported by consent flows. Launch features include bank account connections, spending analysis, balance and income verification, and low-cost payments. Banked is led by founder and CEO Brad Goodall and will continuously add a library of ready-to-use functions and actions.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2021

Addworking publishes a SaaS platform to connect companies with subcontractors, service providers and freelancers and to manage job postings, contracts and invoice processing. The platform serves sectors including construction, transport, logistics, IT services and industry. The company reports nearly 2,500 customers, mainly SMEs and large groups. Addworking says it has doubled its annual growth in recent years but is not forthcoming about turnover. The team totals nearly 25 employees and the company expects to double its workforce by the end of the year. The company says new features will enrich the solution but has not disclosed details.