• LiveEO

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2024

  LiveEO develops satellite-based monitoring systems and analytics to track risks along linear infrastructure corridors, including pipelines, railways, and power lines. Its Twinspector project is a dual-satellite constellation designed to capture high-resolution and three-dimensional imagery tailored to long, narrow infrastructure routes. The company intends Twinspector data to integrate with its existing analytics platforms to help operators detect threats like unauthorized construction, excavation, and vegetation encroachment earlier. LiveEO is developing the system with European partners and positions the project as part of expanding commercial Earth observation capabilities for infrastructure monitoring. The company’s current disclosed financing activity includes ESA program funding through the InCubed program to support Twinspector’s development.

• Vitesse

  Participated · Series C · May 2024

  Vitesse provides an all-in-one treasury and payment management platform aimed at insurance companies. Its product connects to a network of clearing systems to streamline international payments and gives access to domestic banking services to reduce cross-border friction. The platform also offers liquidity management, cash-flow forecasting, and real-time visibility into cash positions across accounts and currencies. Founded out of London in 2013 by Paul Townsend and Phil McGriskin, the company was created after the founders sold an e-commerce payments business to WorldPay. With the new funding, Vitesse plans to accelerate U.S. expansion and has appointed banking veteran Curt Hess to lead growth stateside. Financially, the company has completed prior financings and now adds a $93M Series C to its balance sheet. Vitesse PSP provides a liquidity and treasury management platform built on a globally distributed payments network that enables insurers and other customers to manage liquidity and settle claims in real time. The platform helps insurers digitise operations and develop new real-time products such as parametric covers. Vitesse counts several blue-chip insurance customers, including 70% of the insurers within the Lloyds of London market, and neo-insurer BoughtByMany as a user. The company announced a partnership with Mastercard in December 2021 to enable a Pay-to-Card solution for paying claims directly to debit and credit cards. Vitesse will use the new funding to accelerate its product development, invest in customer service, and expand in the US and Europe. CEO Phillip McGriskin framed the opportunity against a larger market where the insurance sector sees over $4tn in claims settled annually. Vitesse provides real-time cross-border payments to businesses via a globally distributed banking and payment network. Founded in 2014 by Phillip McGriskin and Paul Townsend and based in London, it gives customers direct access to domestic payment networks in more than 100 countries and over 60 currencies. The company targets insurance, payroll and corporate payment businesses and lists Brit Insurance, DXC Technology and Gett as customers. To date Vitesse has processed more than £2.1 billion across almost 2.3 million transactions. It plans to use investment to build out sales and marketing, expand its footprint in the U.S., and further invest in the reach and speed of its banking capabilities. Vitesse competes with banks while also partnering with them, differentiating through technology that enables real-time services, rich reporting and improved liquidity management for customers.

• Finanzguru

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

  Finanzguru is a digital, AI-based financial assistant and holistic advisor that connects to any online banking account in Germany. The app functions as a control centre for users’ money, letting them track income, expenses and contracts, save and invest, and take out insurance and other financial products. The company reports more than 1.5 million registered users and a team of 70 employees. Finanzguru plans to use the new funding to accelerate profitable growth in Germany, further expand its product platform, and strengthen its team. Since its launch in 2018, the startup has raised a cumulative €27M. Dwins builds Finanzguru, an artificial-intelligence driven mobile app designed to help Deutsche Bank’s clients better plan their finances and optimize individual customer needs, including contracts, debits and other financial issues. The company was co-founded by Alexander and Benjamin Michel and is based at the Deutsche Börse FinTech Hub in Frankfurt since 2015. Seven of its ten employees are located at the hub. Dwins has worked with the Deutsche Börse Venture Network, gaining introductions to potential investors as well as product feedback and user testing. Financially, the company recently completed a financing round of approximately €1M in which Deutsche Bank took a minority stake. Deutsche Bank’s investment positions the bank as a strategic investor tied to the app’s deployment for its clients. The article does not disclose additional operating metrics or other investors.

• talpasolutions

  Participated · Series B · Mar 2023

  talpasolutions offers a digital fleet and operations management solution that uses onboard sensors to monitor the lifecycle and condition of large machinery. The platform leverages data to detect issues before they occur, aiming to reduce downtime and lower repair and replacement costs. Since its launch in 2016, the company has combined mining engineering and data science to build an ecosystem connecting fleet operators, machine manufacturers, and component makers. CEO and co-founder Sebastian Kowitz says the product supercharges digitalisation in traditionally conservative heavy‑industry sectors. The company recently raised a €15 million Series B to expand its offering. talpasolutions plans to use the funding to move beyond mining into other machinery‑based industries such as construction and logistics. Founded in 2016 and based in Essen, talpasolutions offers software that connects mobile heavy machinery, collects data, and uses data-science models to turn machine data into concrete actionable insights. The platform helps machine manufacturers and operators optimize machine performance, reduce unplanned downtime and improve safety across industries. The company serves key sectors including mining, construction and logistics and says it supports customers around the world. talpasolutions will use the fresh capital to accelerate expansion in those industries and to further develop its platform. Management also plans to work on acquiring more international partners and customers to broaden adoption of its IoT capabilities in heavy industry. The startup’s existing investors include High‑Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Gründerfonds Ruhr.

• CybSafe

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2022

  CybSafe offers a SaaS, per-user subscription platform that applies behavioral science and data analytics to manage people-related security risk. Its product delivers microlearning content and personalized “nudges” via mobile app or browser in nine languages. The company says this behavior-led approach lets organizations peer into workforce security behavior, culture and risk reporting to preempt problems and track improvement, and claims 40%–60% greater effectiveness for certain security behaviors versus traditional methods. CybSafe counts clients such as Credit Suisse, Barclays, HSBC, FNZ Group and Moody’s, and has a strategic partnership with Vodafone. Founded and launched in 2017 by Oz Alashe MBE, the company was created to move beyond compliance-driven, tick-box training toward evidence-backed behavior change. Financially, CybSafe recently closed a new funding round to support continued product development centered on behavior-change micro-experiments. CybSafe is a behavior-led cybersecurity SaaS product that applies behavioral science and data analytics to manage people-related security risks by delivering personalized cyber support, microlearning, adaptive content and nudges. The platform is delivered via a mobile application and within a browser and is available in nine languages. It uses accredited microlearning content, adaptive support material and personalized nudges to help users develop security skills and habits. CybSafe operates on a per-user subscription licensing model and already serves 350 clients in 15 countries, including Credit Suisse, Air Canada, HSBC and NHS Trusts. Launched in 2017, the team includes cyber resilience and intelligence experts, former U.K. government cybersecurity specialists, behavioral scientists, data scientists and software engineers. The company plans to use new funding to expand its enterprise and midmarket client base. CybSafe is a cloud-based cyber security software platform that addresses human cyber risk by improving awareness, behaviour, and culture. Its platform uses AI, machine learning and advanced data analytics to combat threats such as phishing, social media use, public WiFi, malware, identity and password issues. An analytical engine lets customers see the type and location of risk and what they can do to mitigate those risks. The solution is used by over 100,000 users and more than 140 organisations across the UK and 11 other countries. CybSafe plans to use the £3.5m Series A to further develop its intelligent software platform and to accelerate revenue generation and growth. The company was founded in 2015, launched to market in 2017, and is led by CEO Oz Alashe.

No current team members are available.