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Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Headline - VC helping founders win, bigger

Headline - VC helping founders win, bigger.

We invest with all of our conviction, leading rounds at every stage.

“So diverse in terms of the characters—there’s a German word, paradiesvögel.”—Christian Gaiser, Numa, Germany

“If I was kidnapped...he’d fly out and try to save the situation. He’s like an investing superhero.” —Noah Kerner, Acorns, US

“It feels like we are in control, and that’s how it should feel.” —Holger Seim, Blinkist, Germany

“I actually feel motivated to share candidly with them.” —Ashot Iskandarian, Shopmonkey, US

“I was flying home…so they met me at the Starbucks outside of security.” —Bianca Padilla, Carewell, US

“Other funds get panicky...they have a mentality of 'ah we'll fix it'.”  —Hjalmar Ståhlberg Nordegren, Karma, Sweden

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Acorns’ market opportunity has never been bigger — or more urgent

Acorns | Headline

Acorns, backed by Headline

Bumble is an app that brings dating, friend-finding, and career-building into a single social networking platform.

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Bumble

Founded by Google's DeepMind and Meta alumni, Mistral AI's focus is in developing the best generative AI models.

Mistral AI | Headline

Mistral AI, backed by Headline

A match made in delivery heaven: Fancy + Gopuff

Gopuff is the go-to solution for immediate everyday needs, delivering food, snacks, drinks, home essentials, baby products and pet necessities, over-the-counter medicine and much more in minutes.

gopuff | Headline

gopuff, backed by Headline

Sonos is a wireless multi-room music system enabling users to play music anywhere in the house and control it using a smartphone.

Sonos (NASDAQ:SONO) | Headline

Sonos

2005: Early
2012: Secondary Sale
2018: IPO

With €55B in AuA (2024), Raisin democratizes the global deposit, investment, and pension markets – benefitting people and financial institutions alike.

Raisin

Founder(s)
Tamaz Georgadze (Raisin)
Frank Freund (Raisin)
Michael Stephan (Raisin)
Tim Sievers (Deposit Solutions)

Meet the Headliner: Julie Wainwright, founder of The RealReal

The RealReal is an online and brick-and-mortar marketplace for authenticated luxury consignment.

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The RealReal, backed by Headline

Yeahka is the leading payment-based technology platform in China providing payment and business services to merchants and consumers.

Yeahka (HK: 9923) | Headline

Yeahka (HK: 9923)

AG5 is a plug-and-play skills management software platform for frontline workers. It provides an easy-to-use skills matrix interface that maps skills types to asset types, offering scalable and collaborative skills overviews for scheduling, forecasting, audits, and training.

AG5 | Headline

AG5, backed by Headline

Meet the Headliner: Shane Hegde, CEO and Co-Founder of Air

Air is a collaborative platform for managing creative operations from inspiration to asset archival.

Air | Headline

Air, backed by Headline

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AppFolio is a property management software for modern residential and rental property managers.

AppFolio (NASDAQ: AAPF) | Headline

AppFolio

Axios is a media company that delivers vital, efficient news and analysis.

Axios (acq. by Cox Enterprises) | Headline

Meet the Headliner: Aditya Kothadiya, CEO & Founder of Avoma

The GPT-3 Boom: Generative AI is Changing How We Communicate

Avoma is a collaborative meeting assistant that provides a centralized platform for video recording, audio transcription, summarized notes, and collaboration features.

Avoma | Headline

Avoma, backed by Headline

Azimo offers an easy and affordable way to transfer money between different countries.

Azimo (acq. by Papaya Global) | Headline

Bioptimus, formed by Google and Owkin alumni, is building the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.

Bioptimus | Headline

Founders
Jean-Philippe Vert, Rodolphe Jenatton

BetterCloud provides critical insights, automated management, and intelligent data security for cloud office platforms.

BetterCloud | Headline

BetterCloud, backed by Headline

Bitwarden is a free and open-source password manager for individuals, teams, and businesses.

Bitwarden | Headline

Bitwarden, backed by Headline

The story of Blinkist and its acquisition by Go1

Blinkist distills nonfiction books in a made-for-mobile format you can read or listen to in 15 minutes.

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Blinkist, backed by Headline

Bokksu is an e-commerce and media platform for international food discovery and authentic storytelling.

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Bokksu, backed by Headline

Braid combines principles of mathematics, physics, computer science, and AI technology to develop software for commercial use.

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Braid, backed by Headline

Bright Health provides tech-enabled consumer insurance plans.

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Bright Health, backed by Headline

Top last mile logistic solutions for D2C e-commerce brand with 11 highly automated logistic hubs around the world.

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Buyandship, backed by Headline

Lightning Up Open Banking: Investing in Brite

Meet the Headliners: Lena Hackelöer, founder & CEO of Brite Payments

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Brite Payments, backed by Headline

Carbonfact is carbon management. Apparel and footwear companies can measure, report and reduce their emissions with no manual effort.

Carbonfact | Headline

Carbonfact, backed by Headline

Marc Laurent
Martin Daniel
Romain Champourlier

Meet the Headliners: Bianca Padilla & Jonathan Magolnick, co-founders of Carewell

Carewell curates adult care supplies to improve the lives of caregivers and their families.

Carewell | Headline

Carewell, backed by Headline

Cameo is an online marketplace that connects celebrities and notable sports, cooking, literary, and social media personalities to their fans via monetized, customized video content, fan clubs and live interactions.

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Cameo, backed by Headline

Residential real estate wire fraud is on the rise. ClosingLock is on a mission to protect buyers, lenders, agents and closing companies.

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CodeSignal develops an automated, skills-based assessment platform to standardize technical recruiting.

CodeSignal | Headline

CodeSignal, backed by Headline

Creditas is Brazil's leading consumer lending product, providing low interest, secured loans.

Creditas | Headline

Creditas, backed by Headline

data.ai (fka App Annie) is the standard in app analytics and app market data provider, giving you one easy-to-use platform for running every stage of your app business.

Data.ai (fka App Annie) | Headline

Meet the Headliner: Jordane Giuly, co-founder of Defacto

Defacto provides capital by API, not paperwork. An automated solution to solve SMB's working capital needs.

Defacto | Headline

Defacto, backed by Headline

Founder(s)
Morgan O'hana
Jordane Giuly
Marc-Henri Gires

Meet the Headliner: Steve Wen, CEO & Founder of Dray Alliance

Reimagining Drayage: The Supply Chain's Most Critical Link

Dray Alliance seamlessly connects shippers with vast, vetted networks of proven drayage carriers, at the spot or year-round.

Dray Alliance | Headline

Dray Alliance, backed by Headline

Investing in the future of open source database tech

DBeaver is an open source, multi-platform SQL client IDE and database tool for developers, SQL programmers, database administrators and analysts.

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DBeaver, backed by Headline

Meet the Headliner: Yury Yakubchyk, Founder & CEO of Elemy

Elemy is the (US) nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare.

Elemy | Headline

Elemy is the (US) nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare

Elemy, backed by Headline

Elyn is a turnkey solution that merchants, small and big, can implement in their existing commerce stack to offer their customers the option to try before they buy. Its automated and unified solution powers everything, from payment to returns management.

Elyn | Headline

Elyn, backed by Headline

FARFETCH brings luxury products from over 1,300 of the world’s best brands, boutiques and department stores into a single shopping experience.

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Farfetch | Headline

Fetch is America’s leading consumer-engagement platform that rewards shoppers for buying the brands they love.

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Fetch, backed by Headline

First AML is creating a world where customer onboarding is secure, fast, and frictionless.

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First AML, backed by Headline

Flutterwave

Freee is online accounting software that syncs with bank accounts and automatically categorizes entries to create financial reports.

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Get Harley's mission is to make expert-led skin health more accessible. Customers get medical-grade products and treatments remotely from some of the world's best practitioners.

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Get Harley, backed by Headline

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GMI Cloud provides advanced GPU cloud solutions, enabling rapid deployment and scaling of AI workloads with powerful infrastructure tailored for machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC) needs

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GMI Cloud, backed by Headline

Gorilla supplies energy data applications for pricing, forecasting, and portfolio analysis. They help suppliers navigate challenging times through data processing.

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Gorilla, backed by Headline

GoToMeeting (acq. by Citrix)

1998: Early
2004: Acquired by Citrix Systems

GRIN is a marketing software that enables direct-to-consumer brands to collaborate and manage their relationships with influencers.

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GRIN

Groupon is a global e-commerce marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services.

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Groupon & Groupon Japan (NASDAQ:GRPN), backed by Headline

Gympass

Hakki Africa provides microfinance solutions in Africa using innovative credit scoring to enhance financial access​
HAKKI AFRICA GROUP

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HAKKI AFRICA, backed by Headline

Meet the Headliner: Daniel Nathan, founder & CEO of Homa Games

Homa is the world's leading platform for creating and publishing mobile games. It offers a complete tool stack for game creativity, including data, publishing, monetization.

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Homa Games is the world's leading platform for creating and publishing mobile games.

Homa Games, backed by Headline

Meet the Headliners: Charity Majors & Christine Yen, co-founders of Honeycomb

Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems.

Honeycomb | Headline

Honeycomb, backed by Headline

Housecall Pro is a digital business management tool for service professionals.

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Icertis enables cloud-based contract management.

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Icertis, backed by Headline

How fast can iink process your property damage insurance claim? iink Payments is a digital payments network that helps restoration businesses with the property damage insurance claims process.

Jow is a personalized meal planning and grocery shopping app that offers recipes, cooking tutorials, and delivery.

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Jow, backed by Headline

Meet the Headliner: Hirofumi Ono, CEO of 17LIVE

17Live is a mobile application that offers live video streaming and real-time content sharing services.

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17Live, backed by Headline

2015: Early
2017: Early (Japan)
2018: Exit by BuyBack (Japan)

Leapwork allows business and IT users to automate repetitive processes so enterprises can scale more efficiently.

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Leapwork, backed by Headline

Lightricks creates award-winning image and video editing apps.

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Lightricks, backed by Headline

Meet the Headliners: Peter Thompson & George Dochev, co-founders of LucidLink

LucidLink transforms the cloud into a local storage system by providing direct access to files stored in the cloud and streaming them to applications on demand.

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