Participated · Series C · Oct 2023

Habyt operates a digital-first marketplace for furnished co-living units, handling listings, virtual viewings, contracts, identity verification and other transactions end-to-end via its platform. The company targets medium-length tenancies (roughly six to nine months) and serves a customer base that is about 70% international and 30% local. Its inventory has expanded rapidly to roughly 30,000 units across about 50 cities, up from 5,000 units in 18 cities a year earlier. Habyt reports profitability already in several key markets and says it is on track for full-company profitability in 2024. The business has grown organically and through acquisitions, including Hmlet (Singapore, 2022) and New York-based Common earlier this year, and has opened its first hotel in Berlin. The funding will be used to enhance the tech platform and to expand the business across Europe, Asia and North America. Habyt offers fully furnished and serviced co-living units with a tech-enabled user experience and a subscription monthly-rent model. The service targets young professionals aged 20–35 who move jobs and cities frequently, enabling flexible moves between properties. The company has pursued an aggressive M&A strategy—acquiring Quarters, Goliving and Erasmo’s Room—and recently merged with Homefully. As a result it now operates over 5,000 units across 15 cities in six countries. Habyt closed a €20 million ($24 million) Series B backed by HV Capital, Vorwerk Ventures, P101 and Picus Capital; management says the funds will support organic growth and further M&A. Founded in 2017 by Luca Bovone, the company is focusing on strategic targets in Europe (notably France and Italy) and is eyeing expansion in Asia. Management also cites pandemic-driven demand for better at-home workspaces and increased willingness to pay for comfortable housing. Habyt operates furnished private and shared apartments with a strong emphasis on design, community and a fully digital experience. The company was founded in Berlin in 2017 and now operates in Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Habyt grew more than 300% since early 2020 and positions itself to continue that trajectory through 2021. In 2020–21 Habyt has expanded by acquisition, buying Go-living in July 2020 and Erasmo’s Room in Madrid (270+ rooms), bringing its Spanish footprint to over 500 rooms and thousands across Europe. The company says the latest capital from Inveready will finance the Erasmo’s Room acquisition and support further European expansion. Habyt and the broader coliving sector have been described as resilient amid COVID-19, outperforming traditional rental markets on rents and occupancy according to Cushman & Wakefield. Projects Co-living provides a housing-as-a-service platform for young professionals, offering a temporary living concept centered on lifestyle and community with shared living units and private, fully furnished flats. The platform bundles services and entertainment opportunities for residents to foster community. The company is based in Berlin and was founded in 2017 by Luca Bovone and Giorgio Ciancaleoni. To date it has raised a total of €2.5m. The latest round will fund acceleration of expansion beyond Germany into the Italian, French and Spanish markets.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2021

Wonderflow provides an AI-driven platform that aggregates and analyzes customer reviews and support-center records to generate actionable insights for enterprises. The product emphasizes Natural Language Processing, prediction, and narrative insights to surface what the market wants from unstructured feedback. The company says it has posted 100%+ growth in the past 12 months and employs about 50 staff across offices in Amsterdam, Milano, and Trento. More than 60% of its workforce are female and employees represent over ten nationalities. Its client roster includes household brands such as Philips, Colgate-Palmolive, Uber, DHL, Delonghi, Reckitt Benckiser, Beiersdorf, Beko, Samsung, GSK, Lavazza, Grundig, and Kantar. Management plans to continue investing in AI and to grow teams in Europe and North America to support enterprise customers. Wonderflow is a customer feedback analysis software startup based in Amsterdam and Trento that provides a big data platform to collect and extract useful information from consumer feedback. The platform processes over 150,000 texts per hour and supports more than 10 languages. Led by CEO Riccardo Osti, Wonderflow says its technology helps companies innovate product and marketing strategies and reduce costs. The company operates globally with a network of over 60 collaborators across 15 countries and serves clients including Philips, Samsung, TomTom, Uber, Reckitt Benckiser, Beiersdorf, DHL and Kantar. Wonderflow raised €1.5m in funding and intends to use the proceeds to consolidate its market position in Europe and to develop its analysis and prediction technologies. Wonderflow is an Amsterdam-based consumer feedback analysis platform that provides marketers and engineers with actionable insights from consumer-generated reviews and customer service data. Led by CEO Riccardo Osti and CTO Giovanni Gaglione, the company offers tools that extract and synthesize online feedback into usable intelligence. It recently raised further undisclosed funding from several Dutch entrepreneurs following its 2015 seed round. The company plans to use the capital to strengthen its market position by consolidating the platform toward a SaaS model. Target industries include hotels, automotive and airlines, following a pilot run with KLM. Wonderflow also launched CX-Report, a single-page report that provides a snapshot of key consumer insights based on analysis of online reviews for a given product. Wonderflow provides Wonderboard, an advanced consumer-feedback analysis platform that lets brands and teams find, browse, filter and group product reviews by price, brand, category and country. The company was founded in 2014 by CEO Riccardo Osti, CTO Giovanni Gaglione and COO Michele Ruini and is based in Amsterdam. It was accelerated within Rockstart. Wonderflow raised a convertible debt investment round (amount undisclosed) led by Dutch entrepreneurs and an executive from Samsung. The company intends to use the funds to further automate its flagship Wonderboard product and to strengthen its market position. It is hiring developers and sales managers in Amsterdam.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2020

WeSchool provides teachers with a digital classroom platform to share documents and video, set exercises, facilitate discussions, and enable group work and tests. The platform supports new methods such as the teach-to-learn approach. During the lockdown period the platform enabled over 1 million users to continue lessons via smartphone or PC. Founded in 2016 and led by founder and CEO Marco De Rossi, the company is based in Milan, Italy. WeSchool raised €6.4M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to continue expanding operations and its business reach. The company's board includes Andrea Laudadio (President) for TIM, Andrea Di Camillo (P101), Anna Paola Concia and Salvo Mizzi. WeSchool is an online learning platform launched by Italian MOOC Oilproject that helps teachers bring classroom activities online and integrate third-party educational content. The product uses 'Boards' to combine videos, articles, tools and services (Khan Academy, BBC, Geogebra, Duolingo, Wikipedia, Google Docs, Dropbox, Instagram) into single learning journeys usable on any connected device. It provides teacher tools to manage deadlines and create tests with nine question types, including video quizzes, crosswords, fill-in-the-blanks and pair-the-cards, turning exercises into mini games playable on mobile and desktop. WeSchool is initially available in English, Spanish and Italian and is positioned to compete with LMS platforms like Moodle and EdModo by focusing on in-class engagement rather than distance-only MOOCs. The company plans to sell annual software-as-a-service licenses to schools and companies. WeSchool builds on Oilproject's existing scale: Oilproject reports 1.7 million unique visitors per month and more than 18,000 hours studied per day. The project was started by Marco De Rossi and the company was incorporated in 2011.