Led · Equity · Jun 2025

Moments Lab offers an AI-powered media asset management platform that automatically indexes, searches, and repurposes large video libraries to turn archives into monetisable content. Its flagship engine, MXT, is a multimodal AI that parses video into scenes and identifies people, places, actions, and shot types. The company is building agentic AI capabilities to generate rough cuts, assist in story creation, and pull insights with minimal human prompting. Clients cited in the articles include Thomson Reuters, Sinclair, Hearst, Amazon Ads, and Banijay. The startup plans to use the new funding to expand into the U.S. and accelerate development and rollout of its next‑generation AI tools for video discovery. Management frames the product as a way to enable teams to search thousands of hours of footage and glean insights in seconds. Newsbridge is a French AI and cloud media company that provides a multimodal AI platform to index, archive and manage video, photo, and audio assets for broadcasters, sports rights-holders and brands. Its platform merges detection results from face, text, objects, patterns and transcription to produce rich metadata and more accurate search results. Customers cited include Bayer Leverkusen, Olympique de Marseille, German public broadcaster SWR and media company Brut. The company says it has more than doubled its recurring revenue in the last 12 months. Following the raise it plans to open its first U.S. office in New York, strengthen operations in Europe and the Middle East with dedicated regional managers, and hire additional AI and media engineering talent. Newsbridge also aims to reduce AI-powered media processing energy use by 90% over the next two years from current levels of up to 450 watt‑hours per hour. Newsbridge is a Paris-based media platform that uses artificial intelligence — including computer vision, deep learning and cognitive tech — to help media and sports rights-holders auto-index, manage and monetise large volumes of audiovisual content. The company has recently added clients including TF1 Group and the French Federation of Football, and signed Asharq News (which has an exclusive content agreement with Bloomberg Media). Newsbridge was co-founded in 2016 by Frédéric and Philippe Petitpont. The startup achieved product-market fit over the past year amid accelerated digital transformation during the pandemic and expanded its client portfolio. The recent financing is intended to fund deep tech R&D and to scale the company’s international expansion efforts. Newsbridge combines artificial intelligence, cognitive technologies and broadcast expertise to enable faster production of relevant video content for journalists, production companies and rights holders. Co-founded in 2016 by Frederic and Philippe Petitpont and based in Paris, the company’s AI engine detects entities (objects, characters, situations) in real time using contextual and multimodal analysis. The technology cross-references information and metadata from different sources to deliver performance gains and is deployed by sports rights holders (adidas, the Evian Championship, the French Rugby Federation) and broadcasters (France Télévisions, M6 Group, TF1 Group). Newsbridge is already processing several thousand hours of content each month for major European publishers. The team comprises 14 people, including eight doctors and engineers. The company raised funds to strengthen the team, accelerate commercial expansion across Europe and develop its R&D activity.

Led · Series A · May 2025

remberg offers a scalable, mobile, AI-driven maintenance platform that integrates with existing IT infrastructure and optimizes maintenance workflows. The platform lets factory operators scan a QR code to access a built-in AI chat assistant when equipment malfunctions. It targets industrial customers seeking to reduce costly unplanned machine downtime and can be used whether or not a company already has maintenance software in place. The company serves more than 150 customers and its customers manage over 1 million assets in the solution. remberg plans to use the new funding to accelerate expansion across Europe and further enhance its AI-powered maintenance platform. The business was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Germany. remberg develops a new breed of CRM software that expands CRM from person-centric workflows to place- and thing-centric processes, allowing customers to digitise workflows around equipment such as machines, buildings, and vehicles. The platform is intended to form the operational basis for IoT by mapping complex relationships around products and assets. According to the company, existing customers are already managing several hundred thousand machines, systems and equipment on the platform. CEO David Hahn says the first step is moving away from Excel and paper to a digital cloud solution before teams can adopt predictive maintenance and IoT. The fresh capital will be used primarily to further expand sales, product, and engineering functions. remberg was founded in August 2018 in Munich by David Hahn, Julian Madrzak, Hagen Schmidtchen, and Cecil Wöbker. remberg builds a cloud-based Asset-Relationship-Management system that digitalizes service processes for industrial machines. The platform enables manufacturers to offer digital documentation, service requests, maintenance and spare-parts ordering to their customers. remberg’s founders—David Hahn, Julian Madrzak, Hagen Schmidtchen and Cecil Wöbker—lead the Munich-based company. The team says the goal is to make service processes more efficient so users can find what they need in a few clicks and order under the best conditions. Fly Ventures and Speedinvest recently invested 2 million in the company. remberg plans to use the investment primarily to expand its sales and development teams.

Led · Equity · Feb 2025

Kodiak Hub is an AI-powered supplier relationship management (SRM) SaaS that provides a modular, plug-and-play platform for procurement teams to gain a 360-degree view of supplier risk, resiliency, and performance. Its cloud-based platform automates supplier intake, qualification, performance monitoring, and compliance tasks using NLP, OCR, predictive analytics, and generative AI tools to simplify supplier classification and compliance follow-ups. The company manages over 250,000 suppliers across more than 20 industries and reports metrics including 80% faster supplier onboarding, 90% improved supplier engagement, 7–10% cost savings on total spend, and roughly 10 hours saved per user per week. Kodiak Hub plans to use new funding to scale its commercial and data analytics teams, enhance AI-driven capabilities, and serve U.S. customers as it expands into the U.S. market. Unlike legacy systems, its modular approach aims to deliver fast value with minimal implementation time to help procurement teams anticipate risks and optimize sourcing strategies. The company has been recognized in the ProcureTech 100 rankings for three consecutive years and named a "50 Providers to Watch" by Spend Matters.

Participated · Series B · May 2024

SOCRadar offers an enterprise-grade Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI) platform that includes cyber threat intelligence, external attack surface management, brand protection, dark web monitoring, and supply chain threat intelligence. Led by CEO Huzeyfe Onal and headquartered in Newark, DE, the company emphasizes AI and machine learning to enhance threat detection and deliver proactive, actionable intelligence. The firm plans to use new funding to accelerate investments in global sales infrastructure, product innovation, and AI-enabled workflows. SOCRadar reports over 25,000 freemium customers across 150+ countries, more than 600 active paid customers, and 350+ channel partners. Its product suite targets enterprise customers seeking end-to-end threat intelligence and brand protection capabilities. The Series B proceeds are intended to expand market reach and deepen product capabilities. SOCRadar offers a cloud-based single-platform early warning system that integrates External Attack Surface Management, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and Digital Risk Protection. The platform consolidates three cybersecurity services into a single solution to help organizations detect and respond to external threats. More than 6,000 companies across 150 countries use SOCRadar's free edition for premium cyber threat intelligence. The company plans to use new funding to scale operations in the U.S. and expand global sales and marketing. A significant portion of the investment will also fund research to expand and enhance product offerings as the cyber threat landscape evolves. SOCRadar was founded in 2019 and is led by Huzeyfe Onal.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

Apica offers the Ascent platform, which provides active observability, automated root cause analysis, and advanced data management to help enterprises find and resolve complex digital performance issues. The platform delivers a unified view across the entire technology stack to reduce, prevent and resolve outages and lost revenue. Led by CEO Mathias Thomsen, Apica focuses on monitoring and analytics at scale and serves organizations handling large volumes of telemetry. The company recently acquired Circonus, a specialist in monitoring and analytics for high-telemetry environments. Apica plans to integrate Circonus’ IRONdb and Passport products into the Ascent platform to broaden its data and telemetry capabilities. Apica also completed a funding round (amount undisclosed) to support its growth. Apica is a 17-year-old Swedish company that helps organizations test applications using synthetic data across devices, APIs and backend protocols. Its core product uses synthetic datasets that mimic real-world use cases to generate user- and machine-level metadata for logs and other components. With the acquisition of Logiq.ai, Apica is expanding beyond pre-production testing into post-production observability by ingesting and enriching log, APM, network and other data sources. Logiq provides a data fabric and pipeline that automatically sorts and enriches disparate data, enabling visualization and feedback to improve synthetic datasets over time. The acquisition closed last week and added Logiq’s 20 employees to Apica’s 55, bringing headcount to 75; Apica plans to roll out Logiq functionality in Q3. Financially, the company reports $10 million ARR and about 100 customers, including Morgan Stanley, MetLife, Delta Dental, John Deere and ABB, and has raised approximately $46 million to date. Apica Systems is a Sweden-based provider of application performance monitoring and load-testing used by global brands. It offers a “single pane of glass” view into the health of diverse technology infrastructure, from mainframes and factory hardware to APIs, IoT devices, and web applications. The platform lets front-line technology staff configure monitoring for new endpoints without needing skilled engineers, broadening the scope of observable systems. Apica also operates a global network of monitoring nodes that it uses for load-testing. The company is positioned to benefit from ongoing enterprise digital-transformation initiatives. RAC plans to support Apica’s continued expansion across North America and Europe. Apica provides a performance monitoring platform for enterprise customers, available as SaaS, on‑premise and hybrid deployments. Its platform includes global synthetic monitoring, comprehensive scripting and load testing capabilities and integrates with vendors such as AppDynamics, New Relic/Dynatrace and ServiceNow. Apica serves 300+ global brands and lists customers including Scholastic, Klarna, Q2ebanking, Etihad and TV4. The company offers enterprise services such as 24/7 global help‑desk, technical account management, professional services and full‑service load testing. Apica has offices in Stockholm, New York, Los Angeles and London and focuses on ensuring application, API, IoT and mobile performance. The company plans to use new funding to grow product offerings, expand its talent base and increase global market share. Apica provides enterprises with a suite to test and monitor mission-critical business systems, APIs, web and mobile applications, delivering detailed real-time performance, uptime and capacity insights. Its solutions are available as SaaS, on-premise and hybrid deployments. The suite is used by 400+ brands globally, including Scholastic, Klarna, Q2ebanking, Etihad and Sweden’s TV4. Founded in 2005 and led by CEO Carmen Carey, Apica has offices in Stockholm, New York, London and Santa Monica. The company intends to use the new funding to expand its market presence in the U.S. and in European markets outside the Nordics. Apica raised USD $12m to support that expansion.