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For us partnering with founders is a very long-term commitment. Our evergreen structure gives us the flexibility and stamina to be the entrepreneurial sparring partner for founders from day 0 and support them for 20+ years until IPO and beyond.

Mid-market multi-entity companies are facing unique challenges across all business segments, of which finance is the most underserved so far. Accounting, treasury, and compliance/tax operations for multi-entity companies are still painfully manual, time-consuming, and fragmented processes for the majority of companies

Our doubling down on CEEZER is representative of the industries we believe in but also a testament to the remarkable performance of the team creating exceptional momentum. Signs of customer love, the accelerating flywheel, impressive product progress, and the broader uptick in the carbon market solidify our belief that this is the perfect storm, and we want to be right in the center of it.

In the face of a challenging macroeconomic environment, FINN announces a €100 million Series C funding round, propelling its post-money valuation beyond €600 million. In this article, we shed light on the company’s remarkable accomplishments and delve into why we, as the company’s first investor in 2019, have believed in FINN’s business model since day one.

Climatetech and fintech will undoubtedly continue to be intertwined in the near future, and there exists significant opportunity in capital-light fintech solutions that can help tackle the operations of existing infrastructure to create efficiencies in payments, capital formation, asset management and insurance. Co-authored by FinTech Collective.

We, as an entrepreneurial sparring partner and global early-stage investor, assist our founders hands-on in making big strategic decisions. As such this July, we took some of our most promising Chinese Enterprise Software portfolio companies to Germany for a Market Discovery Trip: to learn, connect, and pitch. The following piece summarizes observations and conclusions from our trip.

Today we want to introduce Margarita, who is part of our Student Venture Partner cohort. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in financial engineering at Columbia University and also interned with us last summer.

The US and China have long been ahead of the pack when it comes to robotics funding. However, data from the year 2022 is showing that these innovation hubs may have some serious competition as the investment landscape in Europe is starting to outstrip robotics’ biggest players.

The transition to clean energy is the foremost challenge toward a greener, more sustainable future. In our “Energy 101” article, published as part of our series on the electricity transition, we elaborate on how the modern electricity system underlies much if not all of the welfare we have built over the last 100 years.