This document summarizes investment funds that focus on European and American software-as-a-service (SaaS) startups. It lists 24 total funds, with 14 based in Europe and 7 based in Germany. The largest European funds by total funding are Balderton Capital at $2.47 billion and IndexVentures at $5.82 billion. In the US, the largest SaaS focused funds are Accel with $17.06 billion and Bessemer Venture Partners with $1.6 billion. The document provides details on the locations and investments of numerous venture capital funds on both sides of the Atlantic.
Investors and Venture Capital in European Saas Startups 052016
1. Investors in European
SaaS startups
AnOverview
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2. Highlights
#Total of Fonds 24
Thereof from Europe 14
Thereof from Germany 07
Thereof from the US 03
#Total of investments minimum 120
Total funds (when disclosed) $ 33.9 B
Thereof funds from Europe $ 12.9 B
Thereof funds from Germany $ 1.8 B
Thereof funds from United States $ 18.8 B
* Includes all fonds of aVC/investor since inception, also these witout SaaS focus; result with
rounding errors
2Disclaimer: We do not assume any liability for the accuracy and completeness of the information.
4. 4
Name Fond volume Office Website
mainly SaaS - Focus
Point Nine $ 113.71 M Berlin www.pointninecap.com
invested in: CANDIS,Chainalysis, Revolut, riskmethods, Mambu, Critizr, StuDocu, Deskbookers, Jobber
senovo Not disclosed Munich www.senovo.de/de/
invested in: Riskmethods, Holidu,Veact, Shore GmbH, Skive,
KIZOO TECHNOLOGY
VENTURES
€ 10.00 M Karlsruhe www.kizoo.com/de/
invested in: Staffbase, Shyftplan, Mambu,
PauaVentures $ 45 M (first close) Berlin www.pauaventures.com
invested in:
Detectify,Shore, Pipedrive & Jumpstarter
$200.000 to $2 million – with the ability to follow up to a maximum of $6 million.
5. 5
Name Fond volume Office Website
invests in SaaS as one sector
Earlybird $ 725.23 M Berlin www.earlybird.com/
invested in: Simscale, CartoDB
High-Tech Gründerfond € 576 M Bonn high-tech-gruenderfonds.de
invested in: Bookingkit, Bitstars,Customer Alliance
Target Partners $ 283.31 M München www.targetpartners.de
invested in: Trecker, hetras
8. 8
Name Fond volume Office Website
mainly SaaS - Focus
Notion Capital $ 270 M London www.notioncapital.com
invested in:
Adbrain,Tripease,Wercker, Brightpearl, Panaseer Limitede, MOVE Guides,Workable, Elevaate,
Currency Cloud
Balderton Capital $ 2.47 B London www.balderton.com
invested in:
Revolut,Aircall,Tapdaq,Carwow,TheTab, Patients Know Best, LoveCrafts,The Xurious Al
Company,Workable
Dawn Capital $ 180 M London www.dawncapital.com
invested in: Sonovate, Conversocial, iZettle, 90min, Collibra, EVRYTHNG,Automile, Sticky, LeadDesk
Northcap $ 87.37 M Denmark www.northcap.vc
invested in:
Tribal VC About € 10 M Dublin, Ireland tribal.vc
invested in:
FrontlineVentures $ 54.05 M London & Dublin www.frontline.vc
invested in: Typically investing from €100,000 to €2m
9. 9
Name Fond volume Office Webside
mainly SaaS - Focus
Northzone $ 90 M Stockholm www.northzone.com
invested in:
Matsmart, iZettle, Lesara, UniversalAvenue, Marketinvoice, Seriously, FishBrain, Spotify,
Trustpilot
ConorVenture Partners $ 90 M Espoo, Finland www.conor.vc
invested in: Zervant
Leaninvestments unbekannt London, UK leaninvestments.com
invested in: Articheck,Apperio,Castle, Greta,Ometria
innovation nest $ 10 M Krakow, Poland www.innovationnest.co
invested in: Elmodis, Fogger, UXPin, Flowbox, Enteye,TurboTranslations, Infermedica, Sher.ly Inc.
IndexVentures $ 5.82 B Geneva www.indexventures.com
invested in:
Adallom (Microsoft),Algolia,Alkemics, ArtBinder,Assistly (Salesforce), Autobutler
Base, Big Health, Big Switch,Call9
OMNES Capital € 2.1 B Paris, France www.omnescapital.com
invested in: ABTasty, Eptica, viavoo
10. 10
Name Fond volume Office Website
invests in SaaS as one sector
Imperial Innovations £446.0 million
(evergreen fund)
London www.imperialinnovations.
co.uk
invested in: Cortexica
Eight RoadsVentures $ 366.22 M London eightroads.com/en
invested in:
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13. Name Fond volume Office Website
mainly SaaS - Focus
Accel $ 17.06 B
HQ: Palo Alto, California
EU-Office: London
www.accel.com
invested in:
Ninjacart, JUSPAY, Qubit,Zoomdata,Trifacta,JobToday,Grovo, Power2SME, BaubleBar,
ScaleARc, Swiggy, Carwow
Bessemer Venture Partners $ 1.6 B Silicon Valley (+5 global offices) www.bvp.com
invested in Skype, TeamViewer, criteo, visionexpress
invests in SaaS as one sector
SalesforceVentures $ 200 M San Francisco, CA www.salesforce.com/ventures
invested in: Augment,ThousandEyes, Qubit,Goodpatch, BloomReach, NewVoiceMedia
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14. Selected
readings on
SaaS
Interview with Philippe Botteri, Accel Partners on European SaaS
and more
http://www.iceventure.de/blog/web-summit-2015/the-state-of-european-saas-the-eu-ecosystem-the-
story-of-a-great-saas-investor-interview-with-philippe-botteri-accel-partners.html
Are current SaaSVendors already Legacy Dinosaurs?
http://www.iceventure.de/blog/are-current-saas-vendors-already-legacy-dinosaurs.html
Interview mit Ari Helgason, DawnCapital, a known european SaaS
VCs
http://www.iceventure.de/blog/web-summit-2015/saas-cloud-vc-in-conversation-with-ari-helgason-
dawn-capital.html
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15. Investors in European
SaaS startups
AnOverview
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Compiled by Iceventure
as of 05 I 2016 --- Beta #1 version