Index Ventures

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

Index Ventures invests in multi-stage, transformative companies who are willing to challenge convention in many different industries.

Country: United Kingdom

Founded: 1996

Headquarters: Burlington Gardens, London

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Middle East and Israel
  • Australasia

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • Funding Platforms
  • Institutional Investments and Trading
  • WealthTech
  • RegTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Data and Analytics
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Blockchain
  • Real Estate

Investment Stage

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

Summary

Index Ventures invests in multi-stage, transformative companies who are willing to challenge convention.  The firm is especially dedicated to the information technology, clean technology, and life science sectors.  They back the best and most ambitious entrepreneurs with a tight-knit collaborative partnership that retains a shared mission of seeing opportunity instead of obstacles. Index Ventures has teamed up with exceptional entrepreneurs in 39 cities around the world and have helped them grow into new regions. They provide a full-service partnership where they bring a lot of experience and expertise to the table.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

October 2016

Returnly

$3.22m

Seed

Ariel Poler, Eduardo Vilar, FJ Labs, Inception Capital, InReach Ventures, Mundi Ventures, SGH CAPITAL, Social Capital, & SV Angel

Payments and Remittances

United States

September 2016

Metromile

$102.1m

Series D

China Pacific Insurance, First Round, Intact Financial Corporation, Mitsui & Co, New Enterprise Associates, & SV Angel

InsureTech

United States

July 2016

Revolut

£13.8m

Series A

Balderton Capital, Point Nine Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Seedcamp, & Venrex Investment Management

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

April 2016

NGINX, Inc.

$8m

Series B

Telstra Ventures, e.ventures, New Enterprise Associates, & Runa Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Cockroach Labs

$20.25m

Series A

Benchmark, FirstMark Capital, GV, Work-Bench, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Skyport Systems

$30m

Series C

GV, Cisco investments, Thomvest Ventures, InstantScale ventures, Intel Capital, Northgate Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Justworks

$33m

Series C

Redpoint, Bain Capital Ventures, & Thrive Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Property Partner

£15.9m

Series B

Octopus Ventures, Dawn Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, & Neil Rimer

Funding Platforms

United Kingdom

March 2016

Culture Amp

$10m

Series B

Blackbird Ventures & Felicis Ventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Australia

March 2016

Auxmoney

undisclosed

Series D

SevenVentures, Foundation Capital, Union Square Ventures, & Neil Rimer

Marketplace Lending

Germany

February 2016

Signal Sciences

$9.7m

Series A

Bryce Roberts, Harrison Metal, Michael Dearing, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, & Shardul Shah

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

February 2016

Revolut

£1.7m

Seed

Balderton Capital, Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp, & Venrex Investment Management

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

January 2016

Lever

$20m

Series B

Scale Venture Partners, & Matrix Partners

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

January 2016

Datadog

$94.5m

Series D

Iconiq Capital, Amplify Partners, Contour Venture Partners, OpenView, & Shardul Shah

Data and Analytics

United States

January 2016

Crowdpac

$6m

Series A

Correlation Ventures, InterWest Partners, Joseph N. Sanberg, New Enterprise Associates, Reid Hoffman, Signatures Capital, & SV Angel

Funding Platforms

United States

December 2015

bonify

undisclosed

Seed

DN Capital, HW Capital, & Ribbit Capital

Data and Analytics

Germany

September 2015

Base

$30m

Series C

Tenaya Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners, I2A Fund, Jumpstart Ventures, OCA Ventures, & RRE Ventures

Data and Analytics

United States

September 2015

Collibra

$23m

Series B

Dawn Capital

RegTech

Belgium

September 2015

pariti

$710k

Seed

JamJar Investments, Nick Thomson, Simon Menashy, Startup Funding Club, & Timothy Creswick

WealthTech

United Kingdom

August 2015

iZettle

€60m

Series D

Intel Capital, Zouk Capital LLP, 83North, American Express Ventures, Creandum, Dawn Capital, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Hermes GPE Environmental Innovation Fund, MasterCard, MCI Capital SA, Northzone, Santander InnoVentures, SEB Private Equity, & Ben Holmes

Payments and Remittances

Sweden

August 2015

Raisin

€20m

Series B

Ribbit Capital, Tom Stafford, & Yuri Milner

WealthTech

Germany

July 2015

Credit Benchmark

$20m

Series B

Balderton Capital & Jan Hammer

Data and Analytics

United Kingdom

July 2015

Confluent

$24m

Series B

Benchmark & Mike Volpi

Data and Analytics

United States

May 2015

Justworks

$13m

Series B

Bain Capital Ventures & Thrive Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

May 2015

Robinhood

$50m

Series B

New Enterprise Associates, Jordan Mendell, Machine Shop Ventures, Nurzhas Makishev, Ribbit Capital, Social Leverage, Susa Ventures, Vaizra Investments, & Jan Hammer

WealthTech

United States

April 2015

Skyport Systems

$30M

Series B

Intel Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise software

United States

April 2015

Niara, Inc.

$20m

Series B

Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, & Danny Rimer

Data and Analytics

United States

March 2015

Porperty Partner

£5.2m

Series A

Ed Wray, Octopus Ventures, Seedcamp, & Neil Rimer

Funding Platforms

United Kingdom

March 2015

Zuora

$115m

Series F

BlackRock, Wellington Management, Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Next World Capital, Northgate Capital, Passport Capital, PremjiInvest, Redpoint, Shasta Ventures, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2015

Culture Amp

$6.3m

Series A

Felicis Ventures, & Blackbird Ventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Australia

February 2015

Peoplevox

$6m

Series A

Ben White & Jon Kamaluddin

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United Kingdom

January 2015

Datadog

$31m

Series C

OpenView, RTP Ventures, & Shardul Shah

Data and Analytics

United States

January 2015

TransferWise

$58m

Series C

Andreessen Horowitz, Firestartr, IA Ventures, Richard Branson, Seedcamp, & Valar Ventures

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

December 2014

Ayden

$250m

Venture

General Atlantic, Felicis Ventures, Temasek Holdings, & Jan Hammer

Payments and Remittances

Netherlands

December 2014

NGINX, Inc.

$20m

Series B

New Enterprise Associates, e.ventures, Gus Robertson, & Runa Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

October 2014

Wealthfront

$64m

Series D

Spark Capital, DAG Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, Greylock Partners, Ribbit Capital, Social Capital, & Mike Volpi

WealthTech

United States

October 2014

Justworks

$6m

Series A

Thrive Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

October 2014

Lever

$10m

Series A

Matrix Partners, Ben Lin, Jeremy Stoppelman, Keith Rabois, Kevin Colleran, Marissa Mayer, Redpoint, Slow Ventures, Suleman Ali, SV Angel, & Y Combinator

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

September 2014

Robinhood

$13m

Series A

Aaron Levie, Dave Morin, GV, Howard Lindzon, Jared Leto, Jordan Mendell, Nasir "Nas" Jones, Ribbit Capital, Slow Ventures, Snoop Dogg, Susa Ventures, & Jan Hammer

WealthTech

United States

July 2014

Funding Circle

$64m

Series D

Accel Partners, Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, & Neil Rimer

Marketplace Lending

United Kingdom

July 2014

Credit Benchmark

$7m

Series A

Jan Hammer

Data and Analytics

United Kingdom

July 2014

Xapo

$20m

Series A

Greylock Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, Blockchain Capital, David Marcus, Emergence Capital Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, Max Levchin, Winklevoss Capital, Yuri Milner, & Mike Volpi

Cryptocurrencies

United States

June 2014

Osper

$10m

Series A

Darren Shapland, Ellen Levy, Horizons Ventures, LocalGlobe, & Peter Jackson

WealthTech

United Kingdom

June 2014

Raisin

€7.5m

Series A

WealthTech

Germany

June 2014

TransferWise

$25m

Series B

Valar Ventures, IA Ventures, Kima Ventures, Richard Branson, Seedcamp, & The Accelerator Group

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

May 2014

Standard Treasury

$2.7m

Seed

Brian McLoughlin, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Conversion Capital, Cory Ondrejka, Dalton Caldwell, Data Collective, David Beyer, Greg Kidd, Jay Mandelbaum, John Wolthuis, Josh Abramowitz, Promus Ventures, RRE Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Susa Ventures, SV Angel, & Y Combinator

WealthTech

United States

May 2014

Auxmoney

$16m

Series B

Foundation Capital, Partech Ventures, Scott Bommer, Transamerica Ventures, Union Square Ventures, & Philipp Hartmann

Marketplace Lending

Germany

May 2014

BitPay

$30m

Series A

AME Cloud Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Horizons Ventures, Richard Branson, RRE Ventures, SeedInvest, TTV Capital, & Jan Hammer

Cryptocurrencies

United States

May 2014

iZettle

€40m

Series C

Zouk Capital LLP, 83North, American Express Ventures, Creandum, Dawn Capital, Hasso Plattner Ventures, Intel Capital, MasterCard, Northzone, Santander InnoVentures, SEB Private Equity, & Ben Holmes

Payments and Remittances

Sweden

April 2014

CrowdRise

$23m

Series A

Union Square Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, CAA Ventures, Fred Wilson, Spark Capital, & United Talent Agency

Funding Platforms

United States

April 2014

Wealthfront

$35m

Series C

Ribbit Capital, Ali Pincus, Alison Rosenthal, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kevin Rose, Marissa Mayer, Mark Pincus, Paul Kedrosky, SK Ventures, Social Capital, Timothy Ferriss, & Mike Volpi

WealthTech

United States

March 2014

Hortonworks

$100m

Series D

BlackRock, Passport Capital, Benchmark, Dragoneer Investment Group, Tenaya Capital, Yahoo!, & Mike Volpi

Data and Analytics

United States

March 2014

Base

$15m

Series B

OCA Ventures, RRE Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, I2A Fund, Jumpstart Ventures, & Social Capital

Data and Analytics

United States

March 2014

Niara, Inc.

$9.4m

Series A

New Enterprise Associates & Danny Rimer

Data and Analytics

United States

February 2014

Datadog

$15m

Series B

OpenView, Amplify Partners, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, NYC Seed, RRE Ventures, RTP Ventures, & Shardul Shah

Data and Analytics

United States

January 2014

Crowdpac

$2.53m

Seed

CAA Ventures, InterWest Partners, Jillian Manus, New Enterprise Associates, Plug and Play, SGH CAPITAL, Signatures Capital, & SV Angel

Funding Platforms

United States

December 2013

Robinhood

$3m

Seed

Andreessen Horowitz, Elefund, Frontier Tech Ventures, GV, Howard Lindzon, IT Ventures, LocalGlobe, Michael Liou, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Susa Ventures, Tim Draper, & Jan Hammer

WealthTech

United States

November 2013

Futurelytics

$800k

Seed

Credo Ventures, Kima Ventures, LocalGlobe, & Rob Keve

Data and Analytics

United States

October 2013

Funding Circle

$37m

Series C

Accel Partners, Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, & Neil Rimer

Marketplace Lending

United Kingdom

October 2013

Justworks

$1m

Seed

Daring Journey Ventures & LovalGlobe

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

October 2013

Algolia

€1.2m

Seed

500 Startups, Alven Capital, LocalGlobe, Point Nine Ventures, & Martin Mignot

Data and Analytics

United States

September 2013

Zuora

$50m

Series E

Next World Capital, Northgate Capital, Vulcan Capital, Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Marc Benioff, Redpoint, Shasta Ventures, Tenaya Capital, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

June 2013

NumberFour

$38m

Series A

Allen & Company, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, Klaus Hommels, Lars Hinrichs, Mosaic Ventures, & Simon Levene

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

Germany

June 2013

Crinkle

$25m

Seed

Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Andrew Viterbi, Bob Joss, Diane Greene, Dick Fredericks, Gordon Eubanks, Intel Capital, Intuit, Jim Breyer, Marc Benioff, Mehran Sahami, Mendel Rosenblum, Owen Van Natta, Peter Crisp, Peter Thiel, Regis McKenna, & Ross Perot

Payments and Remittances

United States

June 2013

Novus

undisclosed

Venture

Bain Capital Ventures

Institutional Investments and Trading

United States

June 2013

Experiment

$1.23m

Venture

Amir Banifatemi, Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Warner, Dan Knox, Dave Morin, Dave Schappell, Ellen Levy, Esther Dyson, Halle Tecco, Jaan Tallinn, Jade Wang, K5 Ventures, Learn Capital, Ligaya Tichy, Linda Avery, Lux Capital, Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Neil Thanedar, Ryan Petersen, SV Angel, Techammer, Two Sigma Ventures, & Y Combinator

Funding Platforms

United States

June 2013

Hortonworks

$50m

Series C

Dragoneer Investment Group, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Yahoo!, & Mike Volpi

Data and Analytics

United States

May 2013

ERPLY

$2.15m

Series B

Redpoint, 500 Startups, Dave McClure, & Saul Klein

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

May 2013

TransferWise

$6m

Series A

Valar Ventures, IA Ventures, Kima Ventures, Seedcamp, SV Angel, & The Accelerator Group

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

April 2013

Metromile

$10m

Series B

Felicis Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, & Neil Rimer

InsureTech

United States

March 2013

Wealthfront

$20m

Series B

Greylock Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Andy Dunn, Cipora Herman, Duff Ackerman and Goodrich, Hunter Walk, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Schroepfer, Peter Pham, Satya Patel, Science, Social Capital, & Mike Volpi

WealthTech

United States

March 2013

Auxmoney

$12m

Venture

Union Square Ventures & Philipp Hartmann

Marketplace Lending

Germany

December 2012

Believe.in

undisclosed

Seed

Frederico Pirzio-Biroli, Greylock Partners, Jonty Hurwitz, Oak Investments Partners, & Peter Read

Funding Platforms

United Kingdom

December 2012

Metromile

$4m

Series A

First Round, New Enterprise Associates, & SV Angel

InsureTech

United States

November 2012

Datadog

$6.2m

Series A

RTP Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, NYC Seed, & Shardul Shah

Data and Analytics

United States

October 2012

Pentaho

$23m

Series C

New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, & Bernard Dalle

Data and Analytics

United States

September 2012

Geckoboard

$1.5m

Seed

500 Startups & Archimedia

Data and Analytics

United Kingdom

September 2012

Zendesk

$60m

Series D

Redpoint, Benchmark, CRV, Employee Stock Option Fund, GGV Capital, Goldman Sachs, Matrix Partners, & Silicon Valley Bank

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

September 2012

Wandera

$1m

Seed

Greylock Partners, LocalGlobe, & Simon Murdoch

RegTech

United States

June 2012

iZettle

€25m

Series B

83North, Northzone, American Express, Creandum, MasterCard, SEB Private Equity, & Ben Holmes

Payments and Remittances

Sweden

May 2012

Base

$6.8m

Series A

I2A Fund, OCA Ventures, & Social Capital

Data and Analytics

United States

TransferWise

$1.3m

Seed

IA Ventures, Kima Ventures, LocalGlobe, Max Levchin, Seecamp, & The Accelerator Group

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

April 2012

Funding Circle

$16m

Series B

Union Square Ventures & Neil Rimer

Marketplace Lending

United Kingdom

March 2012

Boku, Inc.

$35m

Series D

New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Telefonica Digital, & Danny Rimer

Payments and Remittances

United States

January 2012

TrialPay

$40m

Series C

Visa, Battery Ventures, DFJ Growth, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Greylock Partners, QuestMark Partners, T. Rowe Price, Transmedia Capital, & Danny Rimer

Payments and Remittances

United States

December 2011

Evolven Software

undisclosed

Venture

Pitango Venture Capital

Data and Analytics

United States

November 2011

Zuora

$36m

Series D

Greylock Partners, Benchmark, Dave Duffield, Marc benioff, Redpoint, Shasta Ventures, Tenaya Capital, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

November 2011

Kaggle

$11m

Series A

Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, Gil Elbaz, Hal Varian, Max Levchin, SV Angel, Techammer, Yuri Milner, & Neil Rimer

Data and Analytics

United States

November 2011

Hortonworks

$25m

Series B

Benchmark, Tenaya Capital, Yahoo!, & Mike Volpi

Data and Analytics

United States

October 2011

iZettle

€8.2m

Series A

Charles Dunstone, Creandum, & Ben Holmes

Payments and Remittances

Sweden

August 2011

CipherCloud

undisclosed

Venture

Andreessen Horowitz & Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments

RegTech

United States

August 2011

Adyen

$16m

Venture

Jan Hammer

Payments and Remittances

Netherlands

August 2011

Centrify

$16m

Series D

Accel Partners, Invesco, Mayfield Fund, Sigma Partners, & Mike Volpi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

April 2011

Funding Circle

£2.5m

Series A

Neil Rimer

Marketplace Lending

United Kingdom

January 2011

Geckoboard

$300k

Seed

500 Startups, Alexander Bruehl, Christoph Janz, & DN Capital

Data and Analytics

United Kingdom

September 2010

RightScale

$25m

Series C

Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, DAG Ventures, & Danny Rimer

RegTech

United States

March 2010

ERPLY

$2m

Seed

Saul Klein, Redpoint, 500 Startups, Felicis Ventures, Kenny Van Zant, LocalGlobe, Marten Mickos, The Accelerator Group, & Zack Urlocker

Payments and Remittances

United Kingdom

January 2010

Mimecast

$21m

Series B

Dawn Capital & Bernard Dalle

RegTech

United Kingdom

January 2010

Boku, Inc.

$25m

Series C

DAG Ventures, Benchmark, Khosla Ventures, & Danny Rimer

Payments and Remittances

United States

July 2009

RPX Corporation

undisclosed

Series B

CRV, & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Data and Analytics

United States

June 2009

Boku, Inc.

$13m

Series B

Benchmark, Ali Partovi, Hadi Partovi, Khosla Ventures, & Danny Rimer

Payments and Remittances

United States

December 2008

RightScale

Array

Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

2016

Index Ventures VIII

$550m

2015

Index Ventures Life VII (Jersey) LP

$116.9m

2015

index Ventures Growth III (Jersey) L.P.

$706.16m

2014

Index Ventures VII

$550m

2012

Index Life VI

$150m

2009

Index Ventures V

$350m

Index Ventures IV

$350m

Index Ventures III

$300m

Index Ventures Growth II

$500m

Index Ventures Growth I

$400m

Fund VI

$350m

Fund IV Early Stage Tech

$350m

Life Sciences Fund

$150m

Key Employees

Neil Rimer
Co-Founder & Partner

Dominique Vidal
Partner

Ben Holmes
Partner

Jan Hammer
Partner

Martin Mignot
Partner

Timm Schipporeit
Partner