Helsinki, Finland, 07/24/2018. Finnish software startup Happeo announced today that it has raised $8M from leading international investors including DN Capital (UK/Silicon Valley), Maki.vc (Helsinki), and Vendep Capital (Helsinki). View the original press release from Happeo here: https://www.happeo.com/blog/press-release-8mil-funding Internal Communicators in […]
Nenad Marovac announced as Chair for Invest Europe
Today Invest Europe announced Nenad Marovac, Managing Partner and CEO of DN Capital as its new Chair for 2018-19. Read the press release here: (Excerpt below) Invest Europe today announces Nenad Marovac as its Chair for 2018 to […]
Caroobi raises $20 million in Series B round
Caroobi, raises $20 million in investment with a recent Series B round led by NGP Capital (formerly known as Nokia Growth Partners). Covered by TechCrunch, you can view the full article here, with a excerpt below. ‘The amount of this […]
Marriott CEO, Arne Sorenson discusses Hostmaker Partnership at VivaTech
Marriott CEO, Arne Sorenson discusses Hostmaker Partnership at the VivaTech Conference (4.33.58 to 4.35.25)
Innovation Day: How brands can leverage data to fuel innovation and organizational change.
Steve Schlenker comments at the San Francisco Innovation Day run by DN portfolio company Performance Horizon. For their first U.S. Innovation Day, they focused on Creative Change; discussing how brands and advertisers can leverage their data to build unique competitive […]
Invest Europe – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: How European VC backed a tech titan
Have a read of Nenad Marovac recent guest blog for Invest Europe, reflecting on the Spotify IPO and how European VC backed a tech titan. Excerpt below, with original article available at Invest Europe Company executives didn’t ring the opening bell. […]
DN & Bizworld: Inspiring Entrepreneurship
On Wednesday 16th May two of our DN employees (Imran Tehal & Natalija Wollny) participated in the VC section of one of the Bizworld programmes at Kings College, Wimbledon run by Lorena Szerman and Agnes Berns. BizWorld UK provides fun, project-based […]
Casey Swerner joins the panel at World Precision Medicine Congress May 16-18
What do investors look out for in start-ups? What are the current trends in AI for healthcare? Where do we see the industry moving to in the next 5-10 years? DN Capital’s Casey Swerner joins the panel to discuss this […]
HomeTree feature in FT: ‘The joy of boring business ideas’
DN Portfolio company HomeTree featured in Financial Times on the 11th of April 2018, in an opinion piece written by Jonathan Margolis. ‘Slippers, razors and even gas boilers offer ripe pickings for profit and disruption’ “A few months ago I […]
Preqin’s ‘Top Performing Management Funds’
Great to be recognised on Preqin’s ‘Top Performing Venture Capital Funds’ Report under the categories ‘ Top Performing Europe-Based Venture Capital Funds (Vintage 2003-2015 Funds)’ and ‘Top Performing Generalist Venture Capital Funds (Vintage 2003-2015 Funds)’.
Imran Tehal joins the Judging Panel at ESS2018 Demo Day
Imran Tehal will join the judging panel alongside Martin Mossler (MD @ Science Park Graz), Abbas Kazmi (MP @ Collegiate Capital) at European Student Startups Demo Day on March 19th 2018 in London. European Student Startups is the largest pan-European […]
RecargaPay raises US$ 22 million in Series B investment
With over 10 million virtual wallets and millions of transactions per month, the company is redefining mobile payments for unbanked & banked in Brazil. São Paulo, February 21, 2018 – RecargaPay, the mobile payments platform and wallet for Brazil, announced […]
TechCrunch Feature: European VC Firm DN Capital closes new €200million fund
DN Capital’s fourth fund received quite a bit of press and we were fortunate enough to be picked up by TechCrunch. Covered by Steve O’Hear of TechCrunch on 25th January 2018. You can view the original article here. Excerpt below: […]
Business Insider Feature: Shazam investor DN Capital has raised €200 million for its new fund
Nenad Marovac and Thomas Rubens discuss the closing of DN Capital’s fourth fund, our investments and the likely impact of Brexit on the European VC ecosystem. You can view Business Insider’s coverage via this link, with an excerpt below. Covered […]
DN feature in Reuters: European stand-out venture fund DN raises new 200 mln euro fund
You can view the full article written by Eric Auchard on the 25th January via this link. Excerpt below: ‘FRANKFURT, Jan 25 (Reuters) – DN Capital, a European-focused venture firm co-founded by two Americans, has closed a new 200 million euro […]