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With our fourth fund going into its third year, we’re looking to expand our team with a visiting analyst in Q1-25.

Salt Lake City, September 6, 2024  US-based L2L, the global leader in connected workforce solutions, acquires SwipeGuide, a European trailblazer in mobile-first frontline training and visual job aids for the manufacturing workforce. SwipeGuide enhances L2L’s…

Hi there, Last week, we unveiled our investment in Neople, a Netherlands-based company specializing in AI-powered customer support solutions for e-commerce. It is the latest investment of our Newion IV fund. Leopold, investor at Newion…

Amsterdam, June 4, 2024 – Dutch startup Neople, the software solution that creates AI co-workers for e-commerce customer support teams, raised a €6 million investment round led by Newion and Simon Capital. They are joined in…

Hi there, As you might have heard, in the past weeks, our portfolio company, Parloa, announced a significant milestone. The company raised $66 million in Series B funding, marking the largest Series B funding round…

Hi there, There are a variety of employee benefit-related schemes available in the market, however, their uptake remains low in numbers due to the regulations and manual management involved. Employers can only offer their employees…

With our forth fund going into its second year, we’re looking to expand our team with an Associate.

With our forth fund going into its second year, we’re looking to expand our team with an Associate.

With our forth fund going into its second year, we’re looking to expand our team with an additional Analyst.

Hi there, Last week, we unveiled our investment in Airfocus, a Hamburg-based company specializing in a modular product management platform. After Parloa, Delphai, and Filestage, Airfocus marks our fourth investment in Germany and is the…

Hamburg, Germany Jan 10, 2023 – Hamburg-based startup airfocus, a leading product management software, has successfully closed a $7.5M fundraising round led by Newion with the participation of XAnge, Nauta, Riverside Acceleration Capital, and Picea Capital.…

Hi there, We hope you all enjoyed a warm end of the year 2023 with family and friends. We have the impression that 2023 flew by at record speed. As we launched Newion 4 in…

Acquisition Adds Significant New Capabilities to the Tax Systems Software Portfolio and Boosts Presence Across 25 Additional Countries LONDON, 11 DECEMBER 2023 – Tax Systems, the leading tax compliance software supplier in the UK and…

Hi there, As we transition into the final quarter of 2023, this year has brought Newion a blend of milestones and challenges. Among them, the loss of our venture partner, Erik Averink, deeply affected our…

Hi there, Last week we announced our investment into Ellie. Ellie is our 7th addition to the Newion IV portfolio and our first investment in a Finnish company, exciting! Below you find an outline of…

Helsinki, August 31, 2023 – Ellie.ai, a pioneer in product design and collaboration software for data teams, announced today that it has secured a €2.5 million seed funding round. This marks a significant milestone in the…

Roadmaps are about communication. When the executives want to talk about money, the product managers want to talk about planning, and the software engineers want to talk about features, you need something to focus the…

Hi there, 2 weeks ago we announced our latest initial investment into delphai. delphai became the 6th portfolio company of Newion 4, which we closed last September. Below you find an outline of our investment…

LUXEMBOURG, June 7, 2023 –  Salonkee, Europe’s premier salon management solution and booking platform for the hair- and beauty industry , today announced that it has raised €28M in growth capital to further extend market penetration across Europe,…

8 June 2023 – delphai announces a $5 million funding round (including a $1 million grant from the German government) to finance our groundbreaking AI models that are specifically trained to understand the international business…

Dexter Energy secures €10.5m in Series B funding to further accelerate the energy transition toward a fully renewable power system Amsterdam, April 18th, 2023 – Dexter Energy, a leading provider of AI-based renewable power generation…

Hi there, We are 3 months into 2023 and already a lot has happened. Portfolio company Parloa has raised a new €20M Series A round. We have moved our office and we welcomed 2 new…

Series A funding fast-tracks growth for Berlin-based Contact Center AI Platform Berlin, March 30, 2023 – Berlin-based enterprise software provider Parloa puts a stop to endless wait times and subpar customer service bots, winning a…

With Newion 4 up and running successfully, we are looking for a talented new associate to join our team!

The engineering world is on the brink of a new revolution, as VIKTOR, the leading application development platform in the engineering industry, now enables everyone to create, publish and share apps for free! VIKTOR is…

Hi there, We hope you all had a great end-of-year period. We certainly enjoyed the Christmas break after a busy fourth quarter. Where we put extensive efforts into the mise-en-place for Newion 4, we could…

Rotterdam-based VIKTOR, a company that provides a low code development platform for engineers to build and share apps fast, announced on Monday that it has raised €5.1M in a fresh round of funding. The new funding…

Niclas Mollin, Jimmy Ekbäck and Daniel Brdarski founded Occtoo in 2019. They have now raised €4.6M in a round led by Newion, with continued participation from 42CAP and Industrifonden. Malmö, 22nd of November 2022. Digital…

Hi there, 3Q22 was big for us. In case you missed the messaging about that, here it is again: We raised our 4th fund! Same focus as before: early-stage B2B SaaS companies with their HQ…

Personal benefits tailored to employee life stage and work location Amsterdam, October 26, 2022 – YourCampus, the platform where employees can choose their own benefits and perks on an employer’s budget, has raised €2.7 mln in…

Utrecht, October 21th, 2022 – Investors Newion, Volta and Concrete will together with an existing investor invest 4 million in scale-up LegionellaDossier. The software company, which was founded in 2016 and has since doubled in…

Newion is expanding and opens fourth investment fund: 130 million euros to help 20 software startups to market leadership AMSTERDAM, October 5th, 2022 – Newion, a successful venture capital investor targeting early-stage business software companies…

Hi there, Hello summer! 6 months have passed by already! Last quarter, we announced our investment in Parloa, the enabler of next-gen customer success experiences. We sold our stake in Asysco to Avenade. Asysco was…

Berlin, May 12th 2022 – Parloa, a leading SaaS platform for Conversational AI, todayannounced that it raised 4M Euros. Newion, Senovo, Michael Wax and Erik Muttersbach(co-founders Forto), Nicolas Peters (co-founder Signavio), and other renowned businessangels…

Hi there, The first quarter of 2022 already passed by again. Time flies when you’re having fun, and fun we had here at Newion. In January we welcomed our new intern Jan, who has already…

Company also announces launch of Deliverect App Store, building a dedicated ecosystem for online order automation  NEW YORK AND LONDON, January 25, 2022 –  Deliverect, a global scale-up that simplifies online ordering for more than 20,000 locations across…

The world’s first data-driven CMS will use investment to expand in Europe and improve features even further Utrecht, January 20, 2022 – Prepr, the world’s first headless CMS that allows businesses to personalize customer experiences, has…

New Series B Financing Round Led By Octopus Ventures and Newion Will Accelerate Company’s Global Growth UTRECHT / LONDON / AMSTERDAM / NEW YORK, JANUARY 18, 2022, 3 PM CET  — ValueBlue, a leading and innovative provider…

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Copenhagen/Amsterdam/London, December 13, 2021– Passendo, the Email AdTech company that boosts email marketers’ revenues, announces to have raised €2.3 million in a pre-Series A round led by Amsterdam-based VC Newion, together with the UK-based early-stage funding investors FirstPartyCapital.…

Newion is partner van de SaaS Bazen Community and Patrick Polak was te gast voor de laatste editite om te praten over zijn ervaringen als investeerder in B2B SaaS bedrijven. Dat hij dat al tientallen…

Choosing to apply for a role as Analyst is a way to kickstart your career and should be done with a sense of exploration, curiosity and willingness to learn in a fast-paced working environment. Mastering…

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Flexibility and social interaction are key to innovative concept with less than 50% of classic office space AMERSFOORT/  GHENT, 14 September 2021 – Deliverect, the Belgian scale-up that connects online food delivery companies like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Just…

Amsterdam, August 10, 2021 Foleon announces $10 million Series C funding to fuel product development and international growth. Foleon, a SaaS vendor in the B2B content marketing space, announces $10 million in Series C funding from…

Following its rapid growth from Luxembourg into Belgium and Switzerland, Salonkee just announced a 6.2 Million Series-A led by Fortino Capital and Newion, to further accelerate its European expansion.  After its initial traction and success…

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AMSTERDAM / ANTWERP, 19 May 2021 – Apicbase, the international hospitality tech scale-up, announces it raised 4 million euros in a Series A funding round led by Volta Ventures, along with existing investors Newion, AAA Fund and Business Angels. The Belgian SaaS company,…

New investors DST Global Partners and Redpoint Ventures join Series C bringing total fundraising to more than $90 million in three years GHENT, Belgium, April 21, 2021 — Today Deliverect, a Belgian scale-up that connects Uber Eats,…

Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 8th 2021: SwipeGuide, an Amsterdam-based B2B SaaS company, is the first company in Europe to facilitate the crowdsourcing of critical operational knowledge to improve performance across distributed teams for manufacturing companies based…

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Amsterdam, March 18th, 2021 — Dexter Energy, a fast-growing startup that uses AI to help energy companies optimize their portfolios, has received a €2 million Series A investment led by Newion, an early-stage investor in B2B software companies.…

Adds mobile booking, duty-of-care, sustainability and travel data solution to its spend management platform  LOS ANGELES and DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS – MARCH 16, 2021: Emburse, a global leader in expense management and accounts payable automation solutions,…

The two European leaders in cashless payment solutions have merged to form one company, offering their combined expertise to the leisure and entertainment sector. The newly merged group will now be represented by six offices…

STUTTGART / OSLO, 15 February 2021 – Filestage, the Online Proofing SaaS platform, started a partnership with BrandMaster. The companies now offer a state-of-the-art customer-centric platform for brand management and marketing with online proofing capabilities.  Online Proofing is a core…

Planon, a global software provider in real estate and facility management, has acquired a majority stake in real estate software company Reasult B.V. in which Newion has been a shareholder since 2013. Reasult B.V., founded…

Have you noticed how what you think a job is, and what it really is are usually not the same thing? The world of VC often seems enigmatic and alluring to many people outside of…

STUTTGART / BERLIN / AMSTERDAM, 12 January 2021 – Filestage, the Online Proofing SaaS platform, has received €2.8M in a Series A investment round led by Newion, together with current investor HTGFandSeed+Speed by celebrity Carsten Maschmeyer. Online Proofing is a core process in…

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AMSTERDAM / LONDON, 16 November 2020 – Objective Platform, the European scale-up that provides marketing measurement and optimization software, has received €2M funding in an investment round led by Newion, early stage investor in B2B software companies. Robbert Visser (former…

STOCKHOLM/ AMSTERDAM, 14 October 2020 – Mediatool, the company that offers media management software for omnichannel marketeers, has received €2,5M in an investment round led by Newion, early stage investor in B2B software companies, together with J12…

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Service simplifies online ordering management and fulfilment for restaurants  GHENT, BELGIUM: 29TH April 2020, 9AM BST / 10AM CEST – Deliverect (www.deliverect.com), the Belgian start-up streamlining the restaurant industry with its online food delivery management software,…

ICONIQ Capital, Index Ventures and Durable Capital Partners Lead Latest Round for Data Intelligence Company NEW YORK and BRUSSELS – April 2, 2020 –​ ​Collibra​, the Data Intelligence company, today announced $112.5 million in funding…

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L1nda, dat werkroosters maakt voor ruim 3000 horecabedrijven, gaat ook het personeel voor die diensten leveren. Daarmee gaat het Amsterdamse bedrijf de concurrentie aan met zzp-platform Temper. Opmerkelijk genoeg gaat dochter L1nda Connect de flexkrachten…

AMSTERDAM/STOCKHOLM, November 21, 2019 – John Sjölander (42) has joined Newion, the leading Amsterdam based European investor in B2B software startups, to support the venture capitalist’s growth in the Nordics, DACH and the Benelux. Today…

24i enables Amino to broaden and deepen its TV and online video solution portfolio to further its high-growth strategic evolution. Amino Communications, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, today announced that it has…

Under the name #FundRight, Newion, together with 24 other progressive venture capital investors (VC’s) and TechLeap.NL, is taking a joint initiative that should lead to a more diverse startup ecosystem. We call on other VC’s…

UTRECHT / AMSTERDAM, June 20, 2019 – ValueBlue, the SaaS supplier that increases its customers’ success by providing insight into relationships between data, IT and business, today announces it has received financing of two million…

ANTWERP / AMSTERDAM, 19 June 2019 – APICBASE, the international supplier of cloud-based food management software, announces that it has received € 1.5 million in growth capital in an investment round led by Newion. The…

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When assessing early stage investment opportunities, market size and market growth are among the most important topics to research. Determining this is extremely important for a general understanding of a certain market. Next up is…

It’s no secret that recurring revenue results in high valuations. However, I’m increasingly encountering people and companies that do understand the financial side of things, but have decoupled from the underlying dynamics. Let’s give this…

Do you know that feeling when everything comes together and works out perfectly nice? That feeling can best be compared to how it feels when a company hits its market window exactly right. As a…

Approximately 1-2% of relevant deal flow for a VC firm will become a portfolio company. Hence, rejecting entrepreneurs is something a VC professional will have to do as  part of his job. As most people…

The financial side of a VC investment has many different aspects. The basics however go by a pretty clear structure. Being able to get the basics right, makes the investment case story easy and understandable.…

In Q1 2016 people have massively speculated in all sorts of ways about the state of venture capital in Europe. As a logical result of the recent slowdown in tech funding and slowdown in amount…

An essential part of businesses is obviously the financials. The thing is however, that a typical visionary entrepreneur is often not a star at doing the financial modelling and key metric analysis needed to assess…

​Approximately 1-2% of relevant deal flow for a VC firm will become a portfolio company. Hence, rejecting entrepreneurs is something a VC professional will have to do as  part of his job. As most people…

Every year it seems as though VC investments or the startups opting for Venture Capital are dominated by one major trend. These trends are horizontal tech trends that influence basically all verticals and hence have…

Not only start-ups but also early stage investors should adopt the lean start-up paradigm. Todays practice; investors take weeks for letting external due diligence teams re-calculate prognoses and stipulate every imperfection in all legal documents.…

Yes, I can hear you thinking “Here we go again, bashing everybody else but the nice Venture Capitalists, because the VC’s always got it right”. That would be an easy assumption, however, there is way…

Entrepreneurs can come up with the most complex and genius products which fail in the market for a number of reasons, and a very simple product become the greatest success. There are several key ingredients…

It was the Dalai Lama who once said “A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.” But what is the meaning of transparency in the world of VC? And why…

In the old days things were easy. If you had an idea to start a new business, either you funded it yourself, or asked your friends and family to chip in. And after a while,…

Most people hate preparations, it’s just the same as homework. But before you contact a VC there are some small preparations that will make a big difference. Working for a VC firm, I see numerous…