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Backing Airspeed: The Commercial Brain
The most valuable record inside most companies has never been written.
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TRVC Podcast featuring Gulsah Wilke at Istanbul Slush’d
Incode launch of trust graph
N Capital Shortlisted for “Exit of the Year” for the exit of Cognigy at the GP Bullhound AllStars Awards 2026
ROCKIT Podcast featuring Raoul Fiano
Sanas ranked No. 1 AI company
DN Capital co-led seed round in Dehaze
DN Capital co-leads pre-seed funding round in Sherpa
Thomas Rubens 20min taxi interview with the founder of Airspeed
Thomas Rubens Money2020 panel around identity trust with Incode
Interloom raises $16.5 million
AMD acquires MEXT
Backing Airspeed: The Commercial Brain
Gülsah Wilke, has been named in the Top 50 Women for Germany's Future by BIG BANG UNTERNEHMER
Follow the Gradient podcast featuring Gulsah Wilke
DN Capital leads seed round in Intercom
Primestart podcast featuring Steve Schlenker
DN Capital co-leads seed round in Paraglide
happn has been acquired by Hello Group Inc
DN Capital ranked within the “Top 2.5%” tier of “Power Law Investors in EMEA 2025” in Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking 2025
Cognigy Acquired by NiCE for $955 million – Europe’s Largest Ever AI Exit
Edurino raises €17M Series B round led by Ravensburger Next Ventures
Aibidia raises $28m Series B to drive US expansion and continue growing its transfer pricing solutions
Dealroom: DN Capital was ranked in the top 5% of seed investors in EMEA
DN Capital recognized as a top value-add seed investor in EMEA
Hawk raised $56M in Series C funding
DN Capital recognised as a top value-add seed investor in EMEA
Gülsah wins Strive Role Model Award
New Agentic AI Investment
Napo has successfully closed a £12M Series B!
Sanas raises $65M Series B
Nomagic secures a $44M Series B to drive expansion beyond Europe into Northern America
DN Capital announces successful exit of Tignis
DN Capital backs Fimple in $12M funding round
DN Capital leads Series A investment in Evidently
DN Capital announces successful sale of Brigit
DN Capital backs Plumery in their Series A
Gülsah named as Goalkeeper selected by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Nenad state of the market
Incode named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification
Guy’s thoughts in National Technology News
Numa acquires Native Places
How Stanford University Built Its Own $2.7 Trillion Unicorn
DN Capital completes its second fund returning exit with Remitly
Hometree secures £250m debt facility from Barclays
Incode acquires MetaMap
A European AI champion: Unpacking Cognigy’s $100m Series C
Cognigy raises $100m in its Series C
Hawk extends Series B Funding
Brigit surpassed $100 million in revenue
DN Capital makes strategic hire to support European expansion
DN Capital boosts European footprint with senior Partner hire
DN Capital verstärkt europäische Präsenz mit der Ernnenung einer neuen Partnerin
The DN Capital Foundation
European investors grab the popcorn for the new ‘series’ of OpenAI, but are fearful of the fallout
DN led Filu’s €5.1 million Seed Round
Lanes & Planes announce $35 million in Series B
NUMA team raised a successful $59m Series C
Growth & Exit Strategies Building for Scale Online Conference
The evolution of Seed and Series A round in Europe over time – an overview of the most active seed investors
Digital Integrity Management in the Exponential Age of AI
A Deep Dive into AI and how business can harness its power
How to solve seven pressing global challenges and navigate through different ecosystems
Investment Opportunities in Fintech
The collapse of Silicon Valey Bank and its implications on the VC ecosystem
Insight on investments in the CEE region: Nomagic deal case study
DN Capital led the €10.5m Series A of Edurino
Market in Transition – How the Venture Capital market changed over the years
“Let me Educate You about Education” – How to create a digital school
The Frustrated Athletes Who Reinvented the Tampon in Their Stanford Dorm Room – An example of Steve’s mentorship successes
Yassir raises $150 Million in Series B Funding to Power its Expansion into Africa and throughout the World
Three Things to survive and thrive as the bubble bursts in tech
Incode raised $220 million Series B earning unicorn status less than seven months after the Series A round
Jobandtalent raised $500 million Series E to accelerate its expansion in key markets
Post-pandemic TMT Investment Opportunities
GoStudent: Ed-Tech giant reaches unicorn status after raising Series C led by DST Global
HomeToGo: third IPO of DN Capital in 2021
Lendis accelerates large-scale B2B sales for home office equipment
Mister Spex – Successful IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange 🚀
New Deal: Factory14, acquiring and scaling the most recognizable consumer brands of tomorrow
New Deal: Tesseract raised $25 million Series A to strengthen institutional digital asset lending offering
Remitly, the mobile remittance company, started trading on the Nasdaq
Robin.io raised $38 million Series C led by Rakuten Capital to capitalize on rapid adoption of cloud-native technology
Wellthy, caretaking concierge start-up, raised $35 million Series B to expand to the UK and Canada
Cognigy secures $44 million in Series B funding to facilitate global customer and employee growth
Divido, buy now pay later platform, raises $30 million Series B to drive international expansion
New Deal: Boomin, the all-in-one portal transforming the UK property market
New Deal: The European marketplace for online grocery Everli raises $100 million Series C
New Deal: Incode Technologies raises $25 million Series A investment to fuel aggressive growth in North America and Europe
Cubyn raises €35 million to expand across Europe on the back of growing 8x YoY to €250 million GMV in 2020
Jobandtalent secures €183 million from SoftBank and BlackRock to fuel expansion
Recargapay raises $70 million Series C to accelerate growth and dominate the Brazilian payments market
What are the innovation ecosystems globally?
Auto1 – Successful IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
GetAccept Raises $20m Series B Led by Bessemer
Remitly Announces $85 Million Round; a new DN unicorn
Home services start-up Hometree raises £7m on the back of surge in demand
Car rental service Kyte, launching in Boston
AUTO1 Group announces €255 million funding round to fund expansion of Autohero
DN Berlin Office Launch
Partnerize Snaps Up Pepperjam
New Deal: DN invests in Online Tutoring Platform GoStudent
Happeo raises $12M in Series A funding to further disrupt the intranet industry
Recargapay sees 450% Subscriber Growth
Partnerize Acquires BrandVerity
New Deal: Munich-based business travel platform, Lanes & Planes, raises $10 million in Series A financing
New Deal: $8 million raised for Chattermill in Series A round
Khosla Ventures leads $8.6m round in Polish robotics startup Nomagic
Partnerize Raises $50 Million in Round Led by Accel-KKR
Rakuten Selects Robin to enable End-to-End Cloud-Native Network
Cognigy secures Series A funding to lead the US market in Conversational AI
Bnext Raises The Largest Series A Financing Round In Spain Led By DN Capital
Mister Spex raises €65 million to accelerate international growth and retail network expansion
Remitly announces $220 million financing, accelerating international growth
Cubyn, pioneer of the “First Mile” logistic raises a €12 million Series B and launches Cubyn Fulfillment
New Deal: Board raises $7 million to disrupt the mortgage lending market
New Deal: Foodles, the cafeteria of tomorrow, raises €9 million to shake up traditional catering
PropTech startup Housfy raises €6 million to fuel growth across Southern Europe
Tourlane has raised $47 Million in Series C Funding led by Sequoia and Spark Capital
New Deal: DN backs Leapwork, the startup making workplace automation accessible to all
TigerLaunch first regional kicked off in Paris on February 1st 2019
European Venture’s Renaissance
Nenad Marovac with Harvard Classmate Sheryl Sandberg
DN Capital gathers Entrepreneurs and Investors for its first annual Portfolio Day in Berlin
How to fill in the gaps in blue collar unemployment
Allianz-backed fund switches on to energy start-up Hometree
Divido, the consumer finance platform, scores $15M Series A
DN backed Artur raises €5.5m Series A
ZIVVER completes $12 million fund raise
Happeo, the all-in-one digital workplace platform has raised a late seed round of $8 Million
Nenad Marovac announced as Chair for Invest Europe
Future of the European Startup Scene
Caroobi raises $20 million in Series B round
Innovation Day: How brands can leverage data to fuel innovation and organizational change
Marriott CEO, Arne Sorenson discusses Hostmaker Partnership at VivaTech
What it takes to get VC funding today
Invest Europe – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: How European VC backed a tech titan
DN & Bizworld: Inspiring Entrepreneurship
Casey Swerner joins the panel at World Precision Medicine Congress May 16-18
HomeTree feature in FT: ‘The joy of boring business ideas’
Preqin’s ‘Top Performing Management Funds’
Imran Tehal joins the Judging Panel at ESS2018 Demo Day
DN Capital raises new €200m fund
RecargaPay raises US$ 22 million in Series B investment
Business Insider Feature: Shazam investor DN Capital has raised €200 million for its new fund
TechCrunch Feature: European VC Firm DN Capital closes new €200million fund
DN feature in Reuters: European stand-out venture fund DN raises new 200 mln euro fund
Our Manifesto
“What does it take to build a really big company?”
SoftBank Vision Fund invests €460 million in DN Capital Portfolio Company AUTO1
Steve Schlenker reflects on investing in AUTO1
IMRAN TEHAL @ BUSINESS FUNDING SHOW ’18 – FEBRUARY 22ND
Energy startup Hometree raises £2.9 million
DN Capital leads €10 million round for Joblift
How we met Shazam
Happy Holidays 2017 from DN Capital
Gründerszene selects H2G as No.1 for fastest sales growth
BOOK A TIGER receives fresh capital and further expands B2B business
Hostmaker raises $15M to fund global expansion
Nenad’s NOAH17 London – Fireside Chat with Sean Sewell
How AI Influences the future of business
DN Capital Portfolio Company Remitly Agrees to Raise $115 Million to Accelerate Global Expansion of Financial Services
Our Thesis-Driven Approach in Action: Health-Tech
HomeTree Raises £1.9M in Funding
Steve Schlenker @ TiEcon 2017 – Good to Great: Good VC + Good Entrepreneur = Great Company
1st mile logistics pioneer Cubyn raises a $7M Series A round led by DN Capital to expand across Europe
Caroobi secures millions in funding led by BMW, DN Capital and Cherry Ventures
Get Investment Ready to Secure a VC Workshop – Tips from DN’s Ragnar Jongen @ Business Funding Show
Why Now is the Time for European Venture Capital
Nenad Marovac @ impactCEE Conference Moderated Discussion: Where’s The Money Today?
DN Capital at NOAH 17 Berlin – 22/23 June 2017
Techbikers London Charity Ride on June 15th 2017
AUTO1 Group Valued at $2.8 Billion in Latest Funding Round
WealthClub / Eve Sleep IPO: the investment story
What’s the best thing you have ever said in an interview?
Steve on Startups.co.uk – Traits of a good entrepreneur, ideal investments and much more
Snapchat IPO – our thoughts via BBC Newsight
PZU announces partnership with DN Capital
Brexit, tech trends, AI and DN Strategy – FinSMEs interviews Nenad Marovac
Why Startups migrate to Berlin and what makes the German ecosystem so attractive
Dating App happn Raises $14 Million in Series B Round
Robin Systems Closes Funding Round Bringing Total Investment to $22 Million, Names Key Executives
Performance Horizon Adds Two New Board Members
Happn Takes on Tinder
Challenges and opportunities of the European ecosystem
Opportunities in investing in Europe
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