Lisa Palchynska
Editor-in-Chief, Vestbee
Vestbee spoke with Balázs Haszonics, CEO at Lead Ventures, and Henrik Néninger, the firm's Associate, to discuss the performance of the first fund, emerging growth funding trends, and plans for its €100 million fund.
Chris Wade, co-founder and Partner at Isomer Capital, shared with Marcin Łączyński, Chief of Investments at Vestbee and GP at Next Road Ventures, insights into managing a VC fund from the LP perspective.
In March, IVP launched a $1.6 billion fund. We spoke with James Black, IVP's Partner, about the fund's focus on later-stage companies, the key attributes shared by successful founders, and advice on how entrepreneurs should structure their pitches to capture IVP's interest.
Aachen-based Voltfang has raised over €7 million in equity funding and an additional €800,000 in secured grants, totaling €8 million in its Series A round. This funding was led by FORWARD.One, with participation from Interzero, PT1, AENU, and Helen Ventures.
Paris-based DinMo has secured €5 million to launch and further grow its AI-powered composable customer data platform.
Budapest-based edtech startup Voovo has secured $500,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Techstars.