Led · Equity · Nov 2025

Founded in 2022 in Dublin by Werner Schmidt and Laura Tortosa Sancho, Lative provides an AI-driven platform that links sales strategy to real-time execution for revenue organisations. Its software generates data-backed insights and turns them into actionable plans, helping teams plan, operate and grow more effectively. The product integrates with leading sales technology stacks, holding strategic partnerships with Salesforce, HubSpot and Snowflake. Notable customers already include Seismic, Intercom, Aiven, Avalara and Version 1, demonstrating early traction among mid-market and enterprise users. With its recent capital raise, the company intends to accelerate product development and scale commercial operations. Although no revenue or user figures were disclosed, the customer roster and partnerships suggest growing market adoption. Lative positions itself at the intersection of AI, sales tech and decision intelligence, targeting global go-to-market teams seeking data-driven planning tools.

Participated · Series C · May 2025

Founded six years ago in Berlin, Parloa builds conversational AI agents that handle customer calls and messages for large enterprises such as Allianz, Booking.com, HealthEquity, SAP, Sedgwick, and Swiss Life. Its platform aims to replace human contact-center work by providing contextual, personalized service that can identify a caller and address their needs across phone, web, and app touchpoints. The company disclosed annual recurring revenue of more than $50 million as of last month, positioning it alongside leading peers in the rapidly growing customer-service automation market that Gartner estimates employs 17 million agents worldwide. Management plans to devote substantial new capital to developing a “multi-modal, contextual experience” that extends its AI beyond simply “picking up the phone.” Parloa sees abundant room for multiple winners in the space and believes its capitalization gives it an edge over rivals such as Sierra, Decagon, PolyAI, Intercom, and Kore.ai. Its rapid growth is underscored by a valuation jump from $1 billion to $3 billion in just eight months. The business is already enterprise-ready, with agents answering live calls for global customers today.

Led · Seed · Dec 2024

Synthavo builds an AI-powered spare-parts platform that enables smartphone-based visual identification so anyone can identify and order spare parts in under two seconds. The solution helps machine manufacturers optimise spare parts sales, streamline ordering and significantly reduce machine downtime. Its automated tooling is designed to boost technician efficiency, strengthen customer loyalty and drive part sales. Synthavo has grown to 15 employees and counts Schmitz Cargobull and ASMPT among its clients. The company recently secured a €4M Seed investment to support strategic hiring across sales, engineering and customer success. Management plans to accelerate European expansion and lay the groundwork for entry into the US market.

Led · Seed · Sep 2024

Monda provides a SaaS data monetization platform that enables companies to start, run, and scale their data business. The platform is already used by over 150 data-as-a-service companies that have created more than 6,000 data products. Monda has built partnerships and integrations with cloud data marketplaces from Google Cloud, Databricks, and SAP. The company plans to use new funding to expand operations in the US, grow its partner ecosystem, and enhance the platform to make data monetization easier for companies of all sizes. Founded in 2024 by Thani Shamsi and Richard Hoffmann and headquartered in Berlin, the team has doubled to 32 people since the beginning of the year. Co-founder Thani Shamsi said AI has driven massive demand for high-quality datasets and that Monda was created to make it extremely easy for any company to build a safe, fast-growing, and sustainable data business.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

CultureAI offers a human risk management platform that enables security teams to instantly identify workforce cyber security risks, provide in-the-moment coaching to employees, and automate remediation. The company is led by CEO and Founder James Moore and is based in London with additional offices in Manchester. CultureAI raised $10M in a Series A to support its growth. The firm intends to use the funds for product development and market expansion and plans to double headcount over the next 12 months. It also aims to increase its market profile and expand its presence in the US. No operating metrics or prior financing details were provided in the article. CultureAI offers a platform that surfaces employee security behaviour data and uses it to drive personalised security coaching, automated technical interventions, and security nudges. The system integrates with an organisation’s existing tech stack to surface actionable employee security behaviour insights. Its aim is to move organisations beyond traditional security awareness training toward a data-driven approach that helps employees prevent security incidents. The platform is used across organisations of all sizes and counts customers such as NatWest, Three, Dojo, Royal Mail Group, and Tide. CultureAI reports helping manage the security behaviours of more than 250,000 employees across customer organisations. The company is led by CEO and founder James Moore and is based in London and Manchester, UK. CultureAI provides a human cyber security platform that uses a data-driven approach to measuring and mitigating human security risk. Its platform is being adopted by a growing number of organisations to identify and prevent security incidents caused by employees. The company closed a $4M seed funding round to support its growth. CultureAI plans to use the funds to accelerate product development and to grow its commercial and technical teams in its Manchester city centre office. It also intends to expand into new markets. The company was founded by James Moore and Jon Stokes and is based in Manchester, England, UK.