Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

progile develops TestResults.io, an AI-driven no-code testing platform that combines functional and visual testing to automate complete user journeys across systems. The platform’s three components—manage, design and execute—aim to reduce test automation time and maintenance while avoiding flakiness. TestResults.io has been in use since 2022 and progile was incorporated in 2024 after a strategic re-orientation. The product targets enterprise customers (majority with 200+ employees) and counts COSMO CONSULT and Artensis among its clients. Founder and CEO Tobias Müller draws on over 25 years in software development and 13 years as a consultant. After two years of bootstrapping, the company closed seed financing to further develop fully autonomous software testing and to expand into the DACH market.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Steadybit develops a chaos engineering platform that simulates disturbances and potential failures to help organizations preempt and mitigate system vulnerabilities. The platform continuously assesses system behavior and supports building resilience and better user experience. In March 2024 the company launched a new feature, “Reliability Advice,” which monitors collected system information to identify reliability gaps, suggest fixes, and propose experiments to validate interventions. Customers named in the article include Salesforce, ManoMano, REWE Digital and StackState. Steadybit is led by CEO Benjamin Wilms and is based in Solingen, Germany. The company plans to use new funding to grow its product, engineering, sales, and marketing teams. Steadybit offers a reliability and chaos engineering platform that helps SREs, DevOps, and developers define steady states, inject failure modes, and automate fixes. The company announced general availability of the platform alongside its funding. The platform targets multi-cloud, multi-region, microservices, and Kubernetes environments and integrates with existing load tests and monitoring tools. Key features include an extensible experiment editor, blast-radius controls, a comprehensive API, resilience policies, and an auto-fix capability. Steadybit serves customers in SaaS, eCommerce, financial services, and global enterprises and lists advisors including Nora Jones, Kelsey Hightower, Adam Frankl, Josh Kalderimis, Mirko Novakovic, and Ameet Patel. The company says it aims to broaden adoption of chaos and resilience engineering across organizations.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

Anytype is an object-based note-taking productivity tool and a private, local-first peer-to-peer computing platform that organizes docs, tasks, files, bookmarks, contacts and more. Built on an architecture that protects privacy and data sovereignty, it functions as a private hub for users' data even when working across devices. The app is available on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. The company said it will use new funding to expand operations and development efforts, invite more contributors to extend the product's capabilities, and double down on UX. Anytype raised $13.4M in the reported funding round. Colin Hanna from Balderton Capital will join Anytype’s board as part of the round.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

Morgen is a time management platform that allows users to combine multiple calendars, scheduling tools, task management and event planning in one app. At its core the platform is a calendar equipped with task planning and tracking, scheduling, and event management, and it integrates with Outlook, Google, iCal and Todoist. Morgen is available across Windows, Mac and Linux, and its mobile apps are currently in beta. The company is co‑founded by CEO David Tedaldi and CTO Marco Ancona and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. Morgen raised CHF 1M in pre-seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate product development with next generation intelligence. The round was led by VI Partners with participation from New Forge and angels Cornelia Gut- Villa and Cyrill Osterwalder.

Participated · Series A · May 2022

HiveMQ provides a messaging platform that facilitates communications between large numbers of connected IoT devices, using the MQTT protocol. The company has served a number of Fortune 500 clients across industries and has been active since 2012. HiveMQ plans to use the new funding to expand go-to-market teams and accelerate R&D in HiveMQ Cloud and its broader ecosystem. Leadership emphasizes the need for a reliable, scalable IoT messaging platform to handle the volume and velocity of data from billions of devices. The company is positioning its platform to address legacy messaging limits around connection counts and data scale as IoT adoption grows. HiveMQ offers a platform and cloud-managed MQTT service that moves data from device to cloud in a secure and scalable manner. Led by CEO and co-founder Christian Götz, the company supports mission-critical IoT use cases such as connected cars, transportation, logistics and Industry 4.0. HiveMQ serves over 130 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies and global brands like BMW, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Liberty Global, Moen, Siemens and ZF. The company intends to use the new funding to expand sales and marketing, increase R&D investment in its cloud-managed MQTT service and introduce new products to market. The article notes the company is based in Landshut, Germany.