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🇵🇹🇵🇹 Meet our team member Sascha Argiro at Web Summit in Lisbon next week! 🇵🇹🇵🇹 💌 Drop a comment to this post or write him directly on LinkedIn! 👋 See you there!!

While in NY, I'm grateful to have an optimal infrastructure, thanks to Gabriel Brotman and Jessica Dybfest 🙏 At Axel Springer Haus, you run into folks like Sebastian Dettmers, Andreas Daembkes, Jan Bayer, Christian Baesler, Charlotte Herrmann, or Kyle Hagge. Beyond 1:1 meetings, we teamed up with our portfolio founders of Along to throw an event with local founders, operators, and investors (and a few creatives 🤗 ). Thanks everyone for swinging by and contributing: Abraxas Higgins Will Taylor (of our new portfolio company Parish Tec, check them out!) Pete Mathias Julian Roeoes Zain Abdelrazeq Toqan Tina Wu Julia Bahlsen Gregor Klenk Ashley Corcoran Zoé Gadsden Ashwini Anburajan Matthias Braun Sascha Mombartz Willem Van de Mierop Vitali Karpeichyk Jacqueline Deprey Britt Burney Kunaal A. Chande Lukas Loers Lidiya Dervisheva and more. See you next time.

🎉 Congratulations to our portfolio company Bendi for raising their USD 1m pre-seed round! Bendi is an AI-powered platform that helps businesses identify, analyse and manage ESG risks in complex global supply chains. Congratulations to Mandeep Soor, Benjamin Norsworthy, and Olivier Bacs on achieving this milestone! Happy to be co-investing alongside Ada Ventures, Midven, and Chasing Rainbows! Read the article by Tech.eu in the comments 👇

🚀 Exciting News from our portfolio company Positive Carbon! 🚀 Positive Carbon is expanding into the UK with a new office opening soon! 🌍 Positive Carbon is on a mission to reduce food waste and help food service providers achieve their sustainability goals. 🌱 This move will help them support their growing partnerships with food service providers in the region, while also creating 20 new job opportunities in 2025 across technical support, customer success, and sales. Read the Silicon Republic article here: https://lnkd.in/dnpEcvbG Mark Kirwan

📣 Huge congratulations to our portfolio company Synergi for raising their EUR 2m Seed round! We welcome new investors Greencode Ventures and Vaens, and continue to work with existing investors Lifeline Ventures and Wave Ventures! "We want to help consumers and utilities benefit from providing flexibility to the grid. Previously, this was not possible. Soon, utilities can generate revenue from flexibility markets by aggregating the loads of customer-owned energy assets on the Synergi platform and providing their customers with the Synergi app as a turnkey solution, says Antti Hämmäinen, CEO & Co-founder at Synergi." Huge congratulations to Antti Hämmäinen and Harri Iisakka on achieving this milestone! 👇 Read the press release in the comments below!

📣 Meet our very own Elisa Biava at Italian Tech Week in Turin! She will be jury member at the Techstars Transformative World Torino pitch masterclass together with Martin Olczyk, Virginia Pigato, Michele Mattei, and Giuseppe Scopece! 💌 Early-stage founder or potential co-investor? Reach out to Elisa!

Congratulations to our portfolio company Greenlyte Carbon Technologies for being named to the Norrsken Foundation's Global Impact 100 list!

🎉 Congratulations to LIMATICA for winning the AI Startup Challenge from auto motor und sport and gaining an EUR 100k investment by us and support from reziprok!! Congratulations Thomas Günther, Paul Büschel, and Bastian Ruther!!

🎉 We're super excited to announce that our portfolio company smalt raised an EUR 8m Seed round led by noa (formerly A/O) and joined by current investors General Catalyst, Owl Ventures, and ourselves. smalt addresses Europe’s shortage of workers in green jobs through its talent development and tech services platform. Customers (including some of Germany’s leading energy companies) place installation and servicing orders, and smalt provides on-demand solutions. 🌱 The team will use these funds to accelerate their foray into commercial PV, while they continue to build towards their vision of bridging the talent supply & productivity gap of 3M workers in the European climate trades. Huge congratulations to Marius Westhoff, Khurram Masood, and the whole team for achieving this milestone! 🏅 We're happy to have joined you on this adventure and excited to see what is ahead! Read more in Sifted's article below👇

🎉 🎉 We are thrilled to announce our APX portfolio company Qualifyze has raised a USD 54m Series B round with Insight Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Cherry Ventures, and H14! This investment fuels their plans to expand into the US market, continue investing in their go-to-market strategy, and take their technology to new heights—helping them lead the charge in global supplier risk management. Huge congratulations to Dr. David Schneider on achieving this milestone! Read the full article in the link below 👇