$15bn in 🇬🇧 UK Funding & 🇩🇪 German early-stage ecosystem taking off
Have a look through the hottest seed and pre-seed rounds across Europe, as well as Dealrooms latest figures on European funding.
On the ground in London, it’s been a busy start to the year. Large amounts of funding and talent flowing from established tech companies across the US and Europe and into early-stage ventures. A truly exciting time.
As outlined by Dealroom, $15bn flowed to the UK in funding, with $10.5bn to London making it the 5th largest hub globally for Venture Capital investments:
$4.3bn invested in Fintech
$1.9bn invested in Enterprise Software
These figures were in the midst of the pandemic, so we would expect these figures to rise and surpass the 2019 record by the end of 2021.
Anecdotally, I had heard of a lot of quality deal-flow throughout Germany offer the last month or so at the early-stage. This week we saw a lot of high-quality funds active in Germany at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Check out the rounds worth reading about below:
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Raised:Â $10m (Seed)Â
Description: Perenna aims to represent the next stage in the UK mortgage market journey by delivering the fixed-for-life mortgage lending model’s advantages. UKTN has more here.
Investors:Â Kevin Flaherty (Former Deutsche Bank Head of Structured Product Syndicate), Casper Arboll (Capdesk founder), Star Capital managing partner Tony Mallin MBE and others.
Raised:Â $7m (Seed)Â
Description: Swapp is a construction-planning technology company for ground-up and renovation projects, maximizing building efficiency and minimizing construction costs.
Investors: Entreé Capital and Point72 Ventures.
Raised:Â $2.65m (Seed)Â
Description:Â Spill is a London-based startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being.
Investors:Â Seedcamp and Ada Ventures.
Raised:Â $2m (Seed)Â
Description:Â Nayms looks to provide brokers with a tradable, transparent, traceable and trusted insurance contract for the world of digital assets.
Investors:Â Coinbase Ventures, Maven 11 Capital and others.
Raised:Â $1.3m (Seed)Â
Description:Â BlackCurve helps retailers avoid pricing items too cheaply or too expensively, shift dead stock profitably, save time and increase their inventory.Â
Investors:Â Nauta Capital, Cambridge Angels Group and others.
🇩🇪 Germany
Raised:Â $3.4m (Seed)Â
Description:Â Superchat helps businesses connect with customers, acquire new and retain existing ones. They help with review aggregation and responding to customers.
Investors:Â Kai Hansen, 468 Capital and others
Raised:Â $3m (Seed)Â
Description: HiPeople lets customers seamlessly request, collect, and analyze candidate reference checks, making it easy to collect in-depth candidate insights at scale.
Investors:Â Cherry Ventures, Capnamic Ventures and Moonfire Ventures.
Raised:Â $2.4m (Seed)Â
Description: Energy Robotics is a developer of software solutions for mobile inspection robots.
Investors:Â EarlyBird Ventures and other angels.
Raised:Â $2.2m (Seed)Â
Description: Softr is the easiest no-code platform to create powerful websites & web-apps from Airtable, in 10 minutes.
Investors:Â Atlantic Labs, Philipp Moehring and others.
Raised:Â $1.8m (Seed)Â
Description: Bird Eats Bug helps development teams to catch, report and fix bugs faster. It enables replays on console errors enabling teams to detect and understand root causes.
Investors:Â Nauta Capital.
Raised:Â $1.3m (Seed)Â
Description: A new type of learning, they offer a Masters in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Technology through a new mobile and student-first platform.
Investors:Â Emerge Education
🇫🇮 Finland
Raised:Â $4.4m (Seed)Â
Description:Â Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay. They are currently working on bringing a mobile shooter to market.
Investors:Â Makers Fund, Play Ventures and others.
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Raised:Â $3m (Seed)Â
Description:Â Kambr aims to help airlines around the world in their pursuit to optimize commercial processes and lift revenues.Â
Investors:Â Global Founders Capital, Founder Collective, Silicon Badia and others.