Connect Ventures

Buckle up: Neverless, crypto investment platform for the masses, is coming out of stealth today. Your "pocket hedge fund", Neverless is an institutional-grade crypto app offering a radically better user experience: instant purchases, zero fees, no minimums, and no lock-ups. We are thrilled to partner with Phuc To, Mikael Peydayesh and Arthur Johanet on their journey to redefine the future of decentralized finance.

We’re delighted to welcome Molten Ventures to our Fund I, as they’ve acquired 97% of the fund’s positions. In today’s challenging M&A and IPO environment, secondary transactions provide an excellent pathway for LPs to fully realize their gains, without divesting the portfolio. Connect Ventures Fund One, launched in 2012, has generated several liquidity events over the years, and its residual value is driven by two stellar companies we backed at the seed stage: Typeform and Soldo. This secondary transaction is a testament to our core thesis: high-conviction investing in product founders who are uncompromisingly committed to building companies that scale efficiently and generate long-term value. We’ll continue managing Fund I and remain committed to the future success of our portfolio. 🚀 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHWdquhd

Two product founders obsessed with user-centricity. A giant market category dominated by unloved legacy products. A core technology shift in the data infrastructure. BI is the only layer in the new modern stack without a new multi-billion leader and Steep is building the product to win it. We're thrilled to partner with Johan Baltzar and Nino Höglund, leading a $4m seed round, with existing investor Rebecka Löthman Rydå at Inventure and participation from Alliance VC, Antler and Greens. Read Pietro's post on how Steep are building the future of business intelligence here - https://lnkd.in/e_5V5iKE

We recently travelled to the heel of Italy’s boot - the beautiful Salento coastline - to host our fifth founder retreat, disConnect 2024. Getting the chance to spend quality time with founders and connecting them to each other makes this our favourite event of the year. And for this edition, we focused on a much-discussed but often misunderstood topic - resilience. That’s why we partnered with Jenny Campbell, author, founder and lead researcher from The Resilience Dynamic, on the retreat. Resilience is actually about our ability to deal with change, and to maintain our resilience reserves so we can cope with what life - and business - throws at us, which is pretty valuable for those building in the context of high uncertainty and low information, aka all founders. More importantly, the retreat is an excellent opportunity for founders across the portfolio to connect with each other and over the course of a few days new relationships, both personal and customer 😉 were formed. Simon Rohrbach, founder and CEO at Plain, said “disConnect was one of the best things I’ve done for myself lately. I came back having made new friends, and full of energy and excitement about the journey ahead.” disConnect ‘24 is a wrap - but we can’t wait til next year for the chance to reflect, connect, check in with ourselves and check out of the day to day. https://lnkd.in/eCKUdxap Alec Mocatta Amos Wittenberg Ben Holdham Corvin Jaedicke Ed Hardy Fabian Seipel Hans Kristian Furuseth Jeylani Jeylani Jonathan Tiret Louis Lecat Madeline Parra Matias Szarfer Barenblit Matt Vagni Max Hardy-Werbin Michael Lazarenko Nino Höglund Paul Anthony Ravinder Bhadhal Rita Kerbaj Sam Shannon Sean Conley Simon Rohrbach Simon Wolff Jenny Campbell Pietro Bezza Rory Stirling Katy Turner Mark Pettit Sammy Daniels

Some founders are cut from a different cloth — those you know you want to back within the first thirty minutes and with whom you aspire to partner over the next decade. They're deeply opinionated about the problem. For us, Madeline Parra and John Talbott are two of those founders - on a mission to solve the problem of unsold inventory by re-inventing e-commerce. Congratulations to you and Purple Dot - The Pre-Commerce Company for raising your Series A and welcome to the journey OpenOcean. Read about Pietro's experience of working with two product founders in Madeline and John who think at venture velocity. https://lnkd.in/er-evNnS

Aikido Security announces their $17M Series A to give every developer access to all-in-one affordable, flexible and open source security. Pietro Bezza shares his thought's on Aikido's secret sauce - thinking and executing with venture velocity. Congrats to Willem Delbare, Felix Garriau and Roeland Delrue, and welcoming Singular and Henri Tilloy - we're delighted to be on the journey with you all! cc Notion Capital https://lnkd.in/gHtC4fhv

"B2B marketplaces are notoriously difficult to scale, but generation 2.0 is using AI and product to generate liquidity at an accelerated pace and Torg is a great example of this"... Excited to announce our latest investment in Torg. Read more about our partnership with Hans Kristian Furuseth, Rita Kerbaj and Ben Holdham from Sitar Teli (link in the comments).