Participated · Equity · Nov 2022

heylogin, founded in 2018 by Vincent Breitmoser and Dominik Schürmann in Braunschweig, offers a password-manager without a master password that lets users confirm logins via their phones instead of typing passwords. The product is positioned as both a security and usability improvement for company laptops. heylogin launched its first version in spring last year and reports strong early traction, with over 900 organizations using the service and numerous positive app-store reviews. The team has recently reinforced its marketing function to support growth and adoption. Near-term product plans target the German Mittelstand, with features such as Microsoft Azure AD integration rolling out in the coming months. Financially, the company recently attracted external capital: Mozilla and several business angels invested €900,000.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2022

Deno develops a secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript and WebAssembly built in Rust on the V8 engine. Its commercial product, Deno Deploy, is a fully managed service running on a network with 33 regions worldwide. The company contributes to the open-source Deno project, which has tens of thousands of weekly active users on GitHub, and maintains a full-time engineering team. CEO Ryan Dahl says the company aims to broaden JavaScript use outside the browser and optimize for serverless and edge computing, positioning Deno against Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify and Fastly. Deno currently has 17 employees and plans to hire 10 more by next year. The company raised a $21M Series A to build out Deno Deploy, expand marketing operations, and explore new lines of business.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2021

Ramp Network, founded in 2018 and based in London, offers payment infrastructure to bridge crypto and traditional finance. Its product allows users to buy crypto without leaving their dApp or wallet and helps companies increase conversion. The company plans to invest the new capital into its product line, add local fiat currencies and payment methods, expand into new territories, and continue hiring talent. Ramp raised $70M in a Series B that brought its total fundraising to $122.7m over the past 12 months. The business was founded by Sypniewicz and Przemek Kowalczyk. Ramp provides a non-custodial, full-stack payment infrastructure that lets businesses embed crypto on- and off-ramps via a simple SDK, avoiding the need to route users through exchanges. The platform is designed to shorten onboarding and reduce verification friction, enabling users to move between Ramp-powered services more quickly. Ramp has partnered with more than 400 developers, including Mozilla, Browser, Dapper Labs, and DeFi apps such as Aave, Argent, Trust Wallet and Zerion, and is the exclusive on-ramping partner for Sorare and Flow. Integrations include Opera browser top-ups and usage by games like Axie Infinity, which cut onboarding time from hours to minutes. The company has regulatory approvals from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and U.S. FinCEN, and in 2020 received an open banking license from Poland’s KNF. Ramp has raised a total of $63 million to date and aims to ultimately enable banks and financial institutions to offer crypto transactions inside their banking apps. Ramp builds a non-custodial, full-stack payment infrastructure and SDK that enables brands and partners to offer crypto-enabled services without needing their own licenses. The platform is registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority as a cryptoasset business and with Poland’s KNF as an open banking business. Ramp’s technology is embedded by more than 200 developers and partners, including Mozilla, Opera Labs, Dapper Labs, Sorare, Aave, Argent and Zerion. Use cases today include wallet top-ups inside the Opera browser and in-game NFT transactions on Sorare; the company says it could expand into bank apps and other mainstream financial services. Ramp has worked with Alior Bank to learn cooperation with a major bank and plans to expand into new regions, add registrations and licences, and further develop its platform. The company intends to grow its partner network and triple its team by the end of 2021.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2020

Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform founded in 2020 that offers a complete backend stack: Postgres database, authentication, storage, edge functions, real-time subscriptions, and vector search, plus a marketplace of 100+ integrated partner tools. The company reports more than 250,000 customers and over 9 million developers using the platform, with its user base having more than doubled since the Series E and a 600% year-over-year increase in databases. Supabase for Platforms, the product powering many AI app builders, has seen 370% customer growth in the past six months, and the company says agents now deploy the majority of databases on its platform. Supabase released a preview of Multigres, an open source horizontal scaling layer for Postgres under the Apache 2.0 license, to address scaling and sharding needs. Financially, the company has raised over $1 billion in total capital after closing a $500 million Series F at a $10.5 billion post-money valuation.

Participated · Series C · Nov 2012

Everything.me provides a dynamic, HTML5-based mobile platform that surfaces relevant apps and content on demand, blending native apps and the mobile web. Its visual, button-style search discovers content across installed apps and the web, and the company offers an iPhone app and an Android beta. The team positions the product as a way to make phones “dynamic,” adapting app presentation to user intent and bridging the gap between apps and HTML5 web services. Everything.me plans to expand development to additional native apps, web services across mobile platforms, and support desktop browsers and sideloading use cases. The company currently has no revenue model built in, though articles note potential monetization via advertising, affiliate links and branded searches. Funding will be used to grow the team and continue product development. Everything.me is developing a new mobile search app and released a public beta of an HTML5 mobile web version in Q1 2012. It is building native versions for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, planned for release in the coming months. The company was launched in May 2010 by CEO Rami Kasterstein, CTO Joey Simhon, and Ami Ben David and is based in San Francisco, CA. Everything.me raised an additional $3.5M in financing, bringing its total funding to $12.5M. The round was led by Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures; previous investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, BRM Group and DFJTFV. The company is hiring as it prepares for the native app launches.