helloworld.vc
2, Place de Strasbourg, Luxembourg, LU-LU, L-2562
Overview
Hello World is a Detroit-based Venture Capital firm. We invest in people, not companies. We look for entrepreneurs that never take ‘no’ for an answer, entrepreneurs that have a “Rocky” type mentality, and are willing to do whatever it takes to be successful. The founders of Hello World have started successful companies in the past, and know the gritty, hungry, scrappy characteristics it takes to build something that will impact the world.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Rekord
Participated · Seed · Sep 2025
Founded in 2024 in Dublin by Christopher Lynch and Mark Noone, Rekord is building a unified orchestration layer that connects core banking and loan-origination systems with external data sources such as credit bureaus and open-banking providers. The platform lets lenders design, test, and launch fully automated, explainable decision flows for mortgages, SME lending, and consumer credit. By replacing fragmented manual processes, Rekord claims it can reduce the manual work involved in credit origination by up to 80 %, cutting operating costs and accelerating cycle times. The solution is designed to help financial institutions comply with emerging regulations around AI transparency and bias while improving customer experience. Over the next six months, the company plans to onboard additional design partners, run pilot programs with selected institutions, and expand across the EU and UK. The fresh capital will also support team growth to meet rising demand for compliant, AI-driven credit automation.
- Lightbase
Participated · Seed · Sep 2025
Lightbase is an AI-driven developer tools company that connects directly to software repositories and workflows to analyse code and surface instant, context-rich answers about how a system works. By transforming fragmented engineering knowledge into a living, searchable resource, it aims to eliminate the time developers lose to meetings, interruptions, and repeated explanations. The platform offers insights on architecture, data flows, and dependencies, giving new hires and product managers rapid understanding without constant reliance on senior engineers. Early customer usage indicates teams can reclaim up to 50 % of the hours typically lost each week to onboarding and knowledge transfer. Madrid-based Lightbase plans to enhance its product and grow its engineering team, while opening access to additional customers across Europe and North America. Its current financial backing totals €2.2 million from a pre-seed round, and no other funding rounds have been disclosed.
- Stackfix
Participated · Seed · Dec 2024
Stackfix builds an AI-driven system that tests software products in real time to generate standardized, up-to-date datasets for assessing pricing, features and performance. The company positions this approach as an alternative to user-generated review marketplaces, which it says are often incentivized, stale and gameable. Stackfix was founded in 2023 by Paddy Stobbs (co-founder of Jukedeck) and Camin McCluskey (formerly of Skyscanner). Its product aims to introduce greater transparency and independence into software buying by replacing human reviews with automated testing and AI analysis. Businesses across Europe and North America used Stackfix in private beta, generating some revenues already. The team emphasizes simplifying the software buying process for small businesses and enterprises through its AI approach.
- Catalog
Participated · Equity · Mar 2024
Catalog builds a SaaS B2B commerce platform that manages sales across multiple channels for companies roughly doing $5M–$100M in annual revenue. The product integrates tightly with customers' existing ERPs rather than replacing order management, offering an online customer portal, a salesperson companion view, and AI that scans inbound emails to convert free-form conversations into orders. Catalog also positions itself as a marketing/activation tool for existing B2B customers, enabling campaign nudges and prioritization of salesperson outreach. The company targets verticals including home & decoration, baby & kids, and fashion, and competes with Djust, which it says serves larger enterprise clients. Catalog charges customers a flat monthly subscription fee so fees don't rise with usage. The startup recently raised €3 million (about $3.3M) and was originally founded at Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio; future product plans mentioned include payment reconciliation, customer support integrations and onboarding optimizations.
- Weflow
Participated · Seed · Jul 2023
Weflow builds a "revenue workspace" designed to capture and structure CRM data to improve sales teams' efficiency, pipeline visibility, and Salesforce data hygiene. The platform aggregates structured and unstructured sales signals, surfaces deal insights, and provides pipeline analytics and collaborative forecasting. Weflow uses AI to assign a "deal score" that predicts the likelihood of a deal closing and plans to expand AI-driven revenue forecasts while leveraging unstructured email data and call/video transcripts. Product features include a task manager, notepad, a Chrome extension for Gmail and Google Calendar integration, and transparent per-user pricing. The company was launched in 2021 and is based in Berlin. Prior to this seed, Weflow raised $2.7M in pre-seed funding in 2021 and is using new capital to further develop its AI capabilities. weflow develops software for sales teams that use Salesforce. The product saves sales teams time when updating the Salesforce pipeline, enables structuring of the sales process and helps prioritize tasks to win more deals. The startup is led by serial founder Janis Zech, who previously founded and sold Fyber. Cherry Ventures and several business angels have invested $2.7 million in the company. Zech discussed hypotheses, ‘Schreckmomente’ (scary moments) and pivots in a podcast interview about the business.
Team
No current team members are available.