Acton Capital

#InvestmentNews We are excited to announce our investment into paretos together with UVC Partners, LEA Partners , and renowned funds and angels, including Interface Capital, led by Niklas Jansen (Blinkist) and Christian Reber (Wunderlist, Pitch), as well as former Vodafone CEO Hannes Ametsreiter. Ever since we got to know Thorsten Heilig and Fabian Rang from paretos, we have been impressed with how quickly their product is able to generate tangible (and measurable) outcomes for its customers. Particularly valuable in today's challenging time, the paretos supply chain optimization solution not only returns the initial investment but generates relevant business impact affecting both top- and bottomline within just months after integration. As Acton Capital's Fritz Oidtmann puts it:"While many AI technologies are still in the hype phase, paretos has impressively demonstrated that their Decision Intelligence solution creates long-term value for companies that directly reflects in business results. Especially in the current tense economic climate, this is the game-changer for real-world AI application," This round's funding of €8.5m will be used to further grow the footprint in DACH as well as expand paretos' technological leadership position in "Decision Intelligence". We excited to be part of this journey and look forward to seeing paretos advance the future of Decision Intelligence! Thorsten Heilig Fabian Rang Fritz Oidtmann Joseph Hefele

#ACTON25 - Leveraging the learnings of six startup generations (part 16) - Mambu. By offering a lean, cloud-based core-banking solution for financial services, Mambu has revolutionizes the banking game. Founded by Eugene Danilkis, Frederik Pfisterer, and Sofia Nunes in 2011 and backed by Acton Capital in 2016, Mambu today is industry leader in cloud banking, and services more than 200 customers with over 114M end users globally. Be it the next trailblazing unicorn, or the hidden industry champion — there is no one-size-fits-all journey to long-term value. Behind every time and each pioneer there is a unique story worth telling. As part of Acton Capital's 25th anniversary, we aim to tell those pioneer stories again for passing on the learnings of prior startup generations to the next – stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/dBNJDKk6

#ACTON25 - Leveraging the learnings of six startup generations (part 15) - HomeToGo. Within only ten years, HomeToGo beat global industry incumbents and became the world’s leading platform for vacation rentals, combining its B2C marketplace and HomeToGo_PRO, its B2B segment focused on Software & Service Solutions including Subscriptions. Founded by Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl, and Nils Regge in 2014 and backed by Acton Capital in 2015, HomeToGo today is operating in 25 countries, offering the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals with thousands of trusted partners across the globe. Be it the next trailblazing unicorn, or the hidden industry champion — there is no one-size-fits-all journey to long-term value. Behind every time and each pioneer there is a unique story worth telling. As part of Acton Capital's 25th anniversary, we aim to tell those pioneer stories again for passing on the learnings of prior startup generations to the next – stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/dmSEuCHy

Meet the Acton Capital Team at Bits & Pretzels 2024 in Munich 🥨

#ACTON25 - Leveraging the learnings of six startup generations (part 14) – iwoca. Founded by two former bankers at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, Christoph Rieche and James Dear in 2011 and backed by Acton Capital in 2015, iwoca quickly became the leading online business lender for SMEs and one of the fastest-growing financial technology start-ups in the UK. Be it the next trailblazing unicorn, or the hidden industry champion — there is no one-size-fits-all journey to long-term value. Behind every time and each pioneer there is a unique story worth telling. As part of Acton Capital's 25th anniversary, we aim to tell those pioneer stories again for passing on the learnings of prior startup generations to the next – stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/dXb_vf2b

🚀 Meet us at 𝗣𝗔𝗞𝗖𝗼𝗻𝟮𝟰 in Berlin! If you’re attending, don’t miss the chance to connect with Joseph Hefele, Principal at Acton Capital. 💼💡 📍 Project A Knowledge Conference 🗓 September 20 – Berlin Looking forward to seeing you there! 🙌✨ #Startups #Investors #Networking #Entrepreneurship #Berlin

𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 This year, we’re celebrating 25 years in venture. To honour the occasion, we updated our brand to focus on what’s important to us: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘴! Often we get asked what all the logos mean. At Acton, we follow a focused investment approach in which every company matters and drives our returns. To celebrate this close relationship, we think of a symbol that stands for the company and the icon(iq) journey that lies ahead. 🎢

Exciting News at Convelio 💫

#ACTON25 - Leveraging the learnings of six startup generations (part 13) – audibene. Founded in 2012 in Berlin by Marco Vietor and Paul Crusius, audibene revolutionized the way, hearing aids were distributed worldwide. An Acton Capital invest from 2013, sold to Sivantos Group just two years later. Be it the next trailblazing unicorn, or the hidden industry champion — there is no one-size-fits-all journey to long-term value. Behind every time and each pioneer there is a unique story worth telling. As part of Acton Capital's 25th anniversary, we aim to tell those pioneer stories again for passing on the learnings of prior startup generations to the next – stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/dQHAubM

It is with great pleasure to announce that Jus Mundi has raised $22 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Acton Capital and True Global Ventures with participation from historic investors C4 Ventures and FJ Labs. Marking one of the largest legaltech funding rounds in Europe, this financing will enable Jus Mundi, which offers a unique law and arbitration database powered by latest AI capabilities, to further transform the legal workflow of legal professionals around the world by making access to its unique content more convenient and efficient. For us at Acton Capital, this marks the continuation of a long standing interest in the legaltech sector: Following investments into Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology and Henchman, part of LexisNexis, this is our third investment in this field and we could not be more excited. We hence would like to congratulate Jean-Rémi de Maistre and the whole Jus Mundi team to what they have achieved so far and are glad to be able to join them on their journey. For those interested you can read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/e8XwEAXc cc Fritz Oidtmann, Joseph Hefele P.S. If you should happen to be a lawyer, there is one more thing: Make sure to mark September 16th in your calendars, as Jus Mundi announced the launch of Jus AI, its research and productivity assistant for legal professionals.