Standard have created the leading independent software platform for retailers to deploy autonomous cashier-less checkout tech.
Amazon Go Rival Bets On Case for Cashierless Stores (Bloomberg, Feb 2021): Standard Cognition has signed on Circle K as a customer and aims to have its technology in at least 100 locations by year-end. Read more
Hopin is a novel platform for live virtual, hybrid, and in-person events; enabling users to seamlessly network no matter where they are.
Virtual events startup Hopin valued at $7.75 billion (CNBC, Aug 2021): “I feel lucky,” he told CNBC in an interview Thursday. “You work really hard, and you make some critical decisions to get. Read more
Zapp offers ‘instant’ on-demand delivery for convenience store items in Europe, delivering in under 10 mins from hyper-localized urban fulfilment centers.
Zapp Raises $200M to Open New Front In Fast Delivery (Forbes, Jan 2022): London startup has raised over $300M from investors betting on its focus on convenience and unit economics. Read more
Pitch combines the best parts of productivity, design, and presentation software to help fast-moving teams collaborate and create beautifully designed decks in minutes.
Pitch tops Europe’s B2B tech soonicorns list (Sifted, May 2022): Pitch has taken the top spot in the ranking of 100 VC-backed, B2B European “soonicorns”. Read more
Builder’s platform streamlines outsourced software and app development using a library of building blocks and AI, democratizing software development.
Builder raises $100M Series C led by Insight to scale up software automation (TechCrunch, Mar 2022): Revenue is up 300% and users can now build apps up to 6x faster and 70% cheaper. Read more
Nothing is building the next-generation of consumer electronics; they started with ear (1) and recently launched Phone (1). More products to come...
Phone (1) is like nothing you've ever seen before (GQ, Jun 2022): Fifteen years after Steve Jobs first unveiled the iPhone, Carl Pei has an answer: just have fun with it. Read more
Crossbeam is a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable sales, technology and marketing partnerships.
Crossbeam announces acquisition of Partnered (Technical.ly, May 2022): Combining Partnered with the Crossbeam platform and their network of 8,500 companies. Read more
Manna are building consumer drone delivery infrastructure for urban settings. They allow companies to fully outsource a "delivery by drone" option for their customers.
Coffee by drone? Manna raises funds to deliver in UK (FT, Apr 2021): Manna has a working drone service in two towns in Ireland to pilot its technology - delivering groceries. Read more
Sustain.Life is carbon accounting and sustainability management for enterprises.
Sustain.Life, Co-Founded by Former Jet.com and Walmart Executives, Raises $16M (Bloomberg, May 2022): Sustain.Life has attracted high-profile brand customers across a broad range of industries. Read more
Black Crow AI provides actionable machine learning for e-commerce by predicting user value, intent and decisions in real-time.
Black Crow AI raises $25M (TechCrunch, Mar 2022): more than 225 companies have Black Crow’s integration — which has generated over 1 billion predictions per month. Read more
MetaMap provides KYC/AML workflows from biometrics scanning to credit checks; enabling companies to more readily trust and transact with their customers.
Digital Trust Platform MetaMap Raises $70M (PYMNTS, Dec 2021): MetaMap, formerly known as Mati, says it plans to put its flagship tech hub in India, boosting its staffing in that country from 30 to 150. Read more
Northflank is a full-stack cloud platform that serves millions of developer requests monthly; enabling developers to manage and automate the entire DevOps stack.
Northflank create end-to-end DevOps workflow in cloud (TechCrunch, Jul 2020): Northflank, a startup from a couple of guys in their 20s, has been working on a full-stack DevOps platform in the cloud since their first year at university in 2016. Read more
Cloudsmith is a package manager built for the next generation of software infrastructure, focused on the “logistics supply chain” of software.
Software supply chain platform Cloudsmith raises $15M Series A (TechCrunch, Sep 2021): The Belfast-headquartered startup allows businesses to manage all the incoming software it uses via the cloud... Read more
Breakroom is the Glassdoor for hourly workers, based on qualitative data from employee surveys, building a unique dataset of employee feedback valuable to wage workers and employers.
Interview with Anna Maybank, CEO of Breakroom (Resolution, Mar 2021): We spoke to Anna Maybank, CEO and Co-founder of Breakroom, about how Breakroom helps. Read more
Loc Tax is a collaborative tax management platform for multinational companies, allows for “git” like collaboration on projects with multiple internal team stakeholders.
Loc.tax locks in $3.6 million to expand tax platform (Tech EU, Feb 2021): Founded by a team from Belgium and Lithuania, and headquartered in London, the startup is building. Read more
Unflow allows anyone to build mobile app experiences without code. Create screens, flows, and features with a simple user interface.
The only SDK I use in my featured indie app (Unflow Blog, Apr 2022): Our newest engineer, Alex, walks you through how they integrated Unflow into his Coffee Book app. Read more
Pex is the leading media identification and monetization layer for online video indexing 100% of publicly available audio and video content.
Tencent backs digital rights startup Pex in $57M round (TechCrunch, Feb 2021): Pex, a startup aiming to give rightsholders more control over how their content is used. Read more
Feathery offers embedded form infrastructure for the modern web. Empowering product teams to build best-in-class forms and user journeys.
Upfront Improves Conversion Rate by 42.4% with Feathery (Feathery Blog, May 2022): With Feathery, Upfront’s product team is able to build and rapidly iterate on an application flow. Read more
EqualTo is a no-code sales commission operating system that gives sales teams direct insight into what they are paid, building trust through transparency across teams.
German startup EqualTo raises €3.5 million for their no-code sales commission operating system (EU Startups, Jun 2021): Germany-based EqualTo has raised €3.5 million to accelerate the growth. Read more
Sym empowers engineers to create and embed the perfect security and privacy workflows directly into their products.
Sym raises $9M for its security workflow platform (TechCrunch, Oct 2020): Sym, a new platform that makes it easier for developers to integrate security and privacy workflows into. Read more
Mozart Data is the easiest way to set up a modern data stack by providing an abstraction across data infrastructure for custom tooling.
Mozart Data raises $15M to help startups spin up a data stack (TechCrunch, Apr 2022): The company reports that since raising its seed capital in 2020, ARR has grown a hefty 500%. Read more
Grafbase is an edge-first database and compute platform that enables developers to go from an idea to a serverless GraphQL backend in seconds.
Grafbase: Instant serverless GraphQL backends (Grafbase Blog, Jul 2022): The time to market from idea to production is much longer than it has to be. Read more
Huckleberry is a next generation B2B insurance company, enabling SMBs to sign-up for all their insurance needs online in under five minutes.
Huckleberry partners with Berkshire Hathaway (TechCrunch, Mar 2021): In the last year, the SF-based company has nearly doubled its geographic footprint and added five new policies. Read more
Rocket Dollar lets anyone invest in alternative assets through their IRA/401(k)s, keeping the tax benefits of these accounts, while diversifying their portfolio.
Rocket Dollar Surpasses $150M in Retirement Assets (PRWeb, Aug 2020): Rocket Dollar presents individuals with the opportunity to invest in any asset class allowed by the IRS. Read more
Relay is a next generation online bank serving SMBs in the US; whereby it acts as the financial command center for thousands of customers.
Relay Raises $19.4M in Funding (FinSMEs, May 2021): This includes a $15m Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures, to increase customer acquisition, grow. Read more
Beam are creating the first knowledge-based internet browser, creating a novel way to browse the web while capturing knowledge.
Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from our web activity (TechCrunch, Oct 2020): Beam, a new startup founded by Dom Leca and Sébastien Métrot, is working on a brand new app. Read more
Hour One is a leading provider of synthetic characters based on real people. The platform easily generates reusable character IP for lifelike digital video and audio on-demand.
Hour One Raises $20M in Series A Funding (FINSMES, Apr 2022): The company intends to use the funds to further enhance and streamline the process of becoming a virtual human on the platform. Read more
Pico is the operating system for creator businesses, offering them a suite of tools to manage their content and audiences.
Creator monetization and CRM startup Pico raises $6.5M (TechCrunch, Apr 2021): Pico, a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies make money. Read more
Mora is digital platform for reversing metabolic diseases such as diabetes and autoimmune disease, by using diet.
How Meditation & A Plant-Based Diet Changed Dr. Rakesh's Life (Mora Podcast, Jun 2022): And the food is so good. It's all plant based, breakfast, lunch, dinner. Read more
Arevo automates carbon fibre manufacturing via its 3D printing technology with applications across many industrial and consmer sectors.
Arevo raises $25 million for its 3D printing tech (TechCrunch, Aug 2020): Sonny Vu, the former founder and CEO of Misfit, has had a busy summer since he was named the new chief executive. Read more
Patrick is a former web developer and mechanical engineer. He spent the early part of his career advising top technology companies at investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Patrick previously started and ran a VC fund for Universal Music Group, which had invested in Spotify, Shazam, Uber, TikTok, Houseparty, Stance and more.
He is an avid sea swimmer and coffee sipper when at home in San Francisco, and prefers running and reading when on the road in Europe or New York.
Patrick Murphy
SF + London
David has been actively involved in the European and international technology scene for over a decade, and started angel investing in 2014.
David co-founded tech events business Web Summit, and helped it grow to host some of the world’s largest startup gatherings. He resigned from Web Summit in March 2021.
David is an active father of three, and splits his time between Dublin and Lisbon, when not crisscrossing Europe’s other capital cities to meet with founders.
David Kelly
Europe
Audrey focuses primarily on fintech and enterprise software across Europe and US.
She started her career at Goldman Sachs in London and San Francisco after graduating from Stanford University. After that she joined Entrepreneur First to incubate new company ideas and began advising early stage teams. She spends most of her free time producing music.
Audrey Miller
London + SF
Alex is a self-taught programmer from South Africa who focuses on enterprise companies with consumer characteristics.
He was formerly the Investors Team Lead at Web Summit in Dublin, and a Growth Strategist at VMWare in Palo Alto. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University, Boston. He spends his free time playing rugby, writing code, and queueing at sneaker stores.
Alex Mackenzie
London + Dublin
Pitch tops Europe’s B2B tech soonicorns list (Sifted, May 2022): Pitch has taken the top spot in the ranking of 100 VC-backed, B2B European “soonicorns”. Read more
Phone (1) is like nothing you've ever seen before (GQ, Jun 2022): Fifteen years after Steve Jobs first unveiled the iPhone, Carl Pei has an answer: just have fun with it. Read more
Builder raises $100M Series C led by Insight to scale up software automation (TechCrunch, Mar 2022): Revenue is up 300% and users can now build apps up to 6x faster and 70% cheaper. Read more
Zapp Raises $200M to Open New Front In Fast Delivery (Forbes, Jan 2022): London startup has raised over $300M from investors betting on its focus on convenience and unit economics. Read more