e.ventures

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

Investing in early stage internet and software companies all over the world, e.ventures, believes that market leaders can be created anywhere.

Country: United States

Founded: 1998

Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Latin America
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Middle East and Israel

Sector Focus

  • WealthTech
  • RegTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Data and Analytics
  • Real Estate

Investment Stage

  • Angel
  • Seed
  • Early Stage Venture
  • Later Stage Venture
  • Growth Stage
  • Series A
  • Series B
  • Series C
  • Series D

Summary

As a global venture capital firm, e.ventures, invests in early stage internet and software companies all over the world.  They are based in the worlds startup capitals and aim to combine global strategy and philosophy with local presence and insights.  The focus of e.ventures is on passionate users, large markets, disruptive models, and network effects.  They want to help entrepreneurs build transformation companies because they believe that limits are just a state of mind.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

November 2016

PayKey

$6m

Series A

Gaby Salem, CommerzVentures GmbH, Digital Leaders Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, MasterCard, & Santander InnoVentures

Payments and Remittances

Israel

October 2016

Verse

$8.3m

Series A

Greycroft Partners, Boost VC, Lanzame Capital SL, & Spark Capital

Payments and Remittances

United States

July 2016

Deposit Solutions

€15m

Series B

Finlab AG, Valar Ventures, Greycroft Partners, & Peter Thiel

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Germany

July 2016

Exporo AG

€8.2m

Series A

BPO Capital, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, & Sunstone Capital

Real Estate

Germany

May 2016

Tandem

£22m

Series B

Financial Inclusion Initiative, Nigel Morris, Omidyar Network, Route 66 Ventures, & TA Ventures

WealthTech

United Kingdom

May 2016

Azimo

$15m

Venture

Rakuten

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

April 2016

Acorns

$30m

Series D

PayPal, MATH Venture Partners, & Point72 Ventures

WealthTech

United States

April 2016

NGINX, Inc.

$8m

Series B

Telstra Ventures, Index Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Runa Capital, & Thomas Gieselmann

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Friendsurance

$15.3m

Venture

Horizons Ventures

InsureTech

Germany

January 2016

Deposit Solutions

€6.5m

Series A

Peter Thiel & Finlab AG

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Germany

December 2015

CupoNation

€10m

Series B

Columbia Lake Partners, Deutsche Telekom, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Rocket Internet, re-Net, & Silicon Valley Bank

WealthTech

Germany

August 2015

freee

$30m

Series C

DCM Ventures, Japan Co-Invest Limited Partnership, & Recruit Co. Ltd

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Japan

August 2015

BankFacil

$3m

Series A

Accion Frontier, QED Investors, & Redpoint eventures

WealthTech

Brazil

July 2015

PSafe

$30m

Series D

Pinnacle Ventures, Qihoo 360 Technology, Redpoint, & Redpoint eventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Brazil

June 2015

Azimo

$20m

Series B

Frog Capital, Anthemis Group, Greycroft Partners, KRW Schindler Private Ventures, MCI Capital SA, & TA Ventures

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

April 2015

Acorns

423m

Series C

Garland Capital Group, Sound Ventures, MATH Venture Partners, Greycroft Partners, & Great Oaks Venture Capital

WealthTech

United States

February 2015

Graylog

$2.5m

Seed

Mercury Fund, Crosslink Capital, & High-Tech Gruenderfonds

Data and Analytics

United States

December 2014

NGINX, Inc.

$20m

Series B

New Enterprise Software, Gus Robertson, Index Ventures, Runa Capital, & Thomas Gieselmann

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

November 2014

PSafe

$30m

Series C

Pinnacle Ventures, Qihoo 360 Technology, Redpoint, & Redpoint eventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Brazil

October 2014

Rrecurly

$12m

Series B

Fidelity Investments, F-Prime Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, & Polaris Partners

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

August 2014

Lastline

$10m

Venture

Redpoint & Dell Ventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

May 2014

Soldsie

$4m

Series A

First Round, 500 Startups, Correlation Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, SoftTech VC, & Vayner/RSE

Payments and Remittances

United States

March 2014

Azimo

$10m

Series A

Greycroft Partners, Accion Frontier, Anthemis Group, Beacon Capital, Kevin Chong, KRW Schindler Private ventures, RI Digital Ventures, & TA Ventures

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

November 2013

Graylog

41.9m

Seed

Texas Atlantic Capital, Hasso Plattner Ventures, & High-Tech Gruenderfonds

Data and Analytics

United States

October 2013

NGINX, Inc.

$10m

Series B

New Enterprise Associates, Aaron Levie, MSD Capital, Runa Capital, & Thomas Gieselmann

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

September 2013

Azimo

$1m

Seed

Anthemis Group, Jeremy Yap, Kevin Chong, & Matt Cooper

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

July 2013

freee

$2.7m

Series A

DCM Ventures & Infinity Venture Partners

Infrastructure

Japan

July 2013

HireAthena

$7m

Series A

Sherpa Capital, CrunchFund, GV, Mark Pincus, & Promus Ventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

June 2013

Lastline

$10m

Series B

Redpoint & Andreas von Blottnitz

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

April 2013

Lastline

$2.8m

Venture

Andreas von Blottnitz

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2013

Soldsie

$1m

Seed

500 Startups & FundersClub

Payments and Remittances

United States

July 2012

Openbucks

$4.8m

Series A

Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures, Blaine Vess, Clearstone Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Farzad (Zod) Nazem, Gordon Paddison, Greycroft Partners, Inspiration Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Mucker Capital, Novel TMT Ventures, SV Angel, Terry Semel, & TiE Angels

Payments and Remittances

United States

April 2012

DropGifts

undisclosed

Seed

Payments and Remittances

Germany

January 2012

Recurly

$6m

Series A

Freestyle Capital, Harrison Metal, & Polaris Partners

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

October 2011

NGINX, Inc.

$3m

Series A

Runa Capital, MSD Capital, & Thomas Gieselmann

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

October 2011

Domgeo.ru

undisclosed

Seed

Real Estate

Russian Federation

2011

Friendsurance

undisclosed

Seed

InsureTech

Germany

June 2010

TopRealty

$315k

Venture

Vinex Capital Group

Real Estate

Canada

May 2007

nCircle Network Security

$5m

Venture

Alta Partners, JK&B Capital, Menlo Ventures, & Thomas Gieselmann

RegTech

United States

March 2004

nCircle Network Security

$15m

Venture

Menlo Partners, Alta Partners, & Thomas Gieselmann

RegTech

United States

November 2003

iS3

$9.1m

Series B

Asset Management Ventures & Menlo Ventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

October 2002

nCircle Network Security

$20m

Series C

Menlo Ventures, Alta Partners, Court Square Ventures, Guide Ventures, Industry Ventures, Tall Oaks Capital Partners, Visa International Service Association, & Thomas Gieselmann

RegTech

United States

August 2001

nCircle Network Security

$11.3m

Series B

Alta Partners, Court Square Ventures, Guide ventures, Industry Ventures, Millennium Hanson, Tall Oaks Capital Partners, & Thomas Gieselmann

RegTech

United States

August 2001

Guardent

$25m

Series C

Citigroup, Mercury Interactive, Axxon Capital, Bank of Singapore, CRV, New Enterprise Associates, & Sequoia Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

Redpoint e.ventures Brazil Fund

$130m

2016

e.ventures Europe Fund 5

$150m

2016

e.ventures US V

$60m

Key Employees

Mathias Schilling
Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Andreas Haug
Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Thomas Gieselmann
Co-Founder & General Partner

Maren Eckloff-Bohme
CFO & Operating Partner

Brendan Wales
Vice President, San Francisco

Jonathan Becker
Vice President, Berlin

Christian Miele
Vice President, Hamburg

Daniel Barakat
VP Finance