Participated · Equity · Jun 2021

Uberall offers a platform and dashboard that connects and updates businesses' listings across local search, maps, review sites and social apps, enabling centralized management of addresses, hours and customer reviews. The product includes tools to push updates automatically, monitor unofficial or incorrect listings, respond to reviews, and run location-based advertising. Uberall serves retail and brick-and-mortar customers, helping them scale accurate location information across a fragmented ecosystem of discovery services. The company says its platform manages the online presence for 1.35 million business locations and counts customers such as BP, KFC, Marks & Spencer, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. Uberall is expanding its capabilities and U.S. presence via the acquisition of MomentFeed, whose sentiment-analysis tools will be integrated into the wider platform. Financially, Uberall announced a $115 million funding infusion that sources peg at roughly a $500 million valuation and is using the capital to scale product and reach. Uberall offers a Software-as-a-Service product that lets SMEs and larger multi-location companies manage their location marketing across search engines, directories, online maps, navigation services and social platforms. The platform synchronises listings and location data to services such as Google, Bing, Apple Maps, HERE, Waze, TomTom, Facebook, Foursquare and Yelp. Founded in 2013, the company serves more than 1,500 customers and—post-acquisition of Navads—covers nearly 700,000 locations globally. Uberall acquired Navads to bolster its listings and location data management, gaining access to Navads’ technology used by over 800 brands across four continents, including Shell, BP and McDonald’s. Management says the deal strengthens Uberall’s position as the second-biggest location marketing platform behind Yext and emphasizes its presence in the U.S. The recent capital raise was positioned to support the acquisition and further growth. Uberall offers a cloud-based SaaS that centralizes location marketing for SMEs and larger companies with multiple stores, allowing single-point submission and management across search engines, directories, maps, social channels, and navigation services. The platform supports roughly 100 services and injects structured data (location, opening times, menus, facilities) to improve listings and visibility. Beyond listings, Uberall provides review and engagement management tools and a location-based advertising product, and charges a monthly fee per business location. The company serves both well-known enterprise clients and SMEs, and distributes via partners such as 1&1 Internet, Swisscom, Sensis, Vendasta, and OVH. Uberall plans to use new capital for product development and international expansion, with a particular focus on the U.S.

Led · Equity · Mar 2017

rankingCoach provides cloud-based online marketing solutions focused on improving SEO listings for small and mid-size enterprises. The company was founded in 2014 as a spin-off and operates with an international team of over 60 specialists in Cologne (Germany) and Arad (Romania). It supports customers in 11 languages across 24 countries and markets its products directly, via agencies, and through partners such as hosting providers, telecommunications companies and publishers. The capital increase announced is aimed at driving technical product development, expanding services, and further internationalization. To date, rankingCoach has been mainly financed by the Swiss family office Wecken & Cie. As part of the transaction the company is set to become a technology partner of United Internet subsidiary 1&1 Internet.

Led · Equity · Aug 2014

Rocket Internet operates as an internet startup incubator based in Berlin, Germany. The company holds and scales internet businesses through its portfolio and related vehicles such as Global Founders Capital. Global Founders Capital is a portfolio of over 50 venture investments that includes minority stakes in companies like Goodgame Studios, Traveloka, Travelbird, Yemek Sepeti, DaWanda, Kreditech, Borro and SocietyOne. In August 2014 Rocket received a large strategic investment package that materially altered its capital structure. The deal injected cash and contributed equity from United Internet and Global Founders entities, increasing Rocket's available capital and portfolio backing. Following the transaction, Rocket's shareholder base and supervisory board composition were updated to reflect the new investors and stakes.

Led · Equity · Jul 2013

Open-Xchange provides open source email, productivity and security software to the service provider industry. Its platform is delivered by over 100 hosting and telecommunications companies and reaches more than 200 million consumer and SMB users. The company employs over 250 specialists, approximately 70% of whom work in development, engineering and technical support. The €21 million funding will be used to grow the talent base and to develop network-side services for DNS and email. Planned product work includes traffic-filtering for malicious activity, parental controls, and a patent-secured email advertising solution powered by Dovecot's IMAP. Open-Xchange aims to broaden relationships with existing partners and win new customers in North America, LATAM and APAC while reinforcing carrier-grade, secure branded experiences for hosters, telcos and cable companies. Open-Xchange builds white‑label email, calendar, contact and task management platforms and powers millions of email accounts for customers such as Liberty Global, Vodafone, KPN and STRATO. The company has 230 employees distributed globally and is moving into the consumer market with a privacy‑focused service called OX.io. OX.io will integrate Qwant search with email, include PGP encryption, and offer 2 GB free email storage plus an additional 2 GB of cloud storage; users can opt into broad advertising categories or choose an ad‑free premium tier. The service is hosted in Berlin and the companies say email and search history will not be tracked, invoking German data‑protection rules. Open-Xchange plans to extend the same privacy options and advertising network to its existing white‑label accounts. To support this push into the spotlight and consumer market, the company raised $5.22 million in venture capital. Open-Xchange builds web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity open-source software and delivers it as software-as-a-service. Earlier this year it launched OX App Suite, an integrated web desktop, and OX Text as part of its OX Documents cloud office suite; spreadsheet and presentation editors are planned within the next 12 months. The company says it has delivered its software as SaaS for six years and is positioned to take advantage of the shift toward cloud office systems. Open-Xchange reports revenue and user-base growth of 50% year-over-year for the past three years and serves 75 clients that reach 80 million end users, including telcos, hosting providers and ISPs. The company plans to use the new funding to invest in software development, professional services, international business development, and marketing and sales. Open-Xchange builds open-source collaboration and email software platforms that support document, calendar and address-book sharing. The company's software can be used on mobile phones. It is based in Tarrytown, N.Y. The article reports a $9 million second-round funding led by German investors. The company previously raised $8.8 million in a first round from Business Angels and BayTech. BayTech participated in both the first and second rounds.