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We back the best seed-stage companies across 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Proud supporters of @deel @tryramp @PersonioHR @MistralAI and many more! Now part of General Catalyst.
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Today, we are excited to announce that
@lafamigliaVC
is joining forces with our long-time friends at
@generalcatalyst
to turbocharge technological value creation in Europe and take our seed investment approach to the global stage 👨👩👧👦🗽
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ANNOUNCING OUR NEW LA FAMIGLIA BRANDING
After many months of brainstorming and designing, we are extremely proud to announce our new fresh look is here.
Check out our new website:
Follow our new Instagram:
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🔥 Deel announced their $425M Series D at a valuation of $5.5B.
⚡️️We can’t believe it was only a little over two years ago when we met
@Bouazizalex
and
@copernicussw
and joined this unbelievable ride from Seed to A-B-C-D at the speed of light.
🎉 Huge congratulations!
It’s a big day at
@deel
because I can finally *officially* share that we’ve raised our Series D of $425 million led by Coatue. Now we can quintuple down on creating an even better global employment experience for teams around the world 🎉🚀💙🗺
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Great conversation hosted by
@cee
from our friends at
@seedcamp
, where he speaks to Jeannette zu Fürstenberg and
@DadaJudith
about their current sector interests, the role of sustainability in VC, and
@lafamigliaVC
's view on what makes a good founder.
On this week's This Much I Know,
@cee
is joined by Jeannette &
@DadaJudith
of
@lafamigliaVC
🌱
They discuss what they look for in founders, quantum physics and the Picasso painting that is a startup🧑🎨
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💨 We are excited to back Mistral AI and its team around
@arthurmensch
,
@tlacroix6
, and
@GuillaumeLample
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We're proud to announce that our portfolio company
@deel
is now officially a unicorn! 🦄 👨👩👧👦
Congratulations to
@Bouazizalex
and
@copernicussw
for the amazing progress and raising a $156M Series-C from
@ycombinator
and existing investors
@a16z
and
@sparkcapital
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A fantastic morning spent with the tech community in Munich! We were thrilled to host today's cycling event with
@lightspeedvp
. So many athletic tech enthusiasts joined us for the ride, and we couldn't have asked for a more energetic group of participants. 🚴♀️⚡️
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🌍 We are excited to announce our investment in
@SweepThePlanet
, a carbon management software, alongside
@newwavevc
,
@2050cap
and angels such as
@dessaigne
@amcdermo
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👨👩👧👦 We're excited to officially welcome
@JoinUnlock
⭐️ to our Famiglia!
🚀 Check it out now - excited for the journey ahead.
🥳 We're so excited to share that we've raised $2M to help us on our mission to make real connections for virtual teams easier 🚀
Special thanks to our incredible group of investors
@lafamigliaVC
,
@kimaventures
,
@AntlerGlobal
& more!
Let's do this 🙌
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🎉 Delighted to officially welcome
@BlingCard
in our Famiglia & lead its pre-seed.
💸 Entrepreneurially driven, Nils Feigenwinter founded Bling to teach kids & teens responsible money skills with its pre-paid card and app.
💳 Bling launches next month!
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Last week Dance announced their expansion. This week Dance is sharing the good news of raising another €20M to support their new growth. 👏
Have you spotted their new billboards yet? Keep your eyes peeled if you’re in Berlin, Hamburg or Munich. 👀
Our mission to make cities more livable goes global! 🌐 Today we're proud to announce €20 million in debt financing, as well as welcoming notable equity investors, incl.
@TMuellerDouglas
, Lavinia Errico, Michelle You, and Erin Bargeld + Blixa Bargeld.
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Exciting news from our portfolio company Dance. 🚀
Dance is expanding—from new e-bikes and e-mopeds to new cities in Germany and Europe to new partnerships with companies who want to offer employees healthier, more sustainable e-mobility solutions. 🚲
Read more below 👇
Spread the word! Today we add two new rides to our product line, launch our Dance for Business offering, and will begin expanding operations in four new cities.
Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Paris - we'll see you on the streets very soon! 💜🚲
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Product savant
@scottbelsky
joined us and opened up about product inflation, unshipping, finding great designers, product cultures and much more! 🤩
Check out more in the post below!
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We picked
@rossmason
's brain on his Top 5 (B2B) founder tips based on his success taking
@mulesoft
from $0 to $6.5bn. (1/6)
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Our very own Jeannette zu Fürstenberg was hosted by Tina Mueller on her latest podcast episode where they discussed everything from the origins and purpose of venture capital to the recent changes in market dynamics. Have a listen (in German) 👇
Eine neue Folge von „Beauty & Beyond“ ist live! Zu Gast: Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg - eine der sehr wenigen deutschen Gründerinnen eines Venture Capital Fonds (
@lafamigliaVC
) und außergewöhnliche Unternehmerin!👂Hört rein, es lohnt sich:
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📣 Excited to share our dear Viet's article on building a defensible machine learning company in the age of foundation models.
Check it out and let us know your thoughts! ☕️
👉 To the Article:
As we're heading into an AI spring again, I wrote down some thoughts on how to build a defensible machine learning company in the age of foundation models.
I hope you'll enjoy reading it!
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@jcfurstenberg
,
@DadaJudith
and the LF team are excited for this next chapter. La Famiglia is built on the vision of a resilient, prosperous Europe, with technology as a key driver of transformation. Joining forces with GC gives us a great sense of opportunity in this endeavor 🚀
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🤗 Happy to welcome Zavvy into our Famiglia!
👨💻 Founded by Joshua Cornelius & Mehmet Yilmaz, Zavvy helps companies automate employee development from onboarding to ongoing training.
🌱 Proudly led their Seed in 2021. Excited to see Zavvy grow in 2022.
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Jeannette zu Fürstenberg and Judith Dada sat down with Katja Michel to discuss the importance of diversity & entrepreneurship—and why it’s beneficial for entrepreneurs to pursue diversity. 💯
Read the full piece from Zeit für Unternehmer here (German) 👉
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Always great to hear
@Bouazizalex
sharing his founder journey and the learnings behind
@deel
's success story as it scaled to more than €5B in valuation over the last three years. Take a listen! 🎧
"Whenever I hire people, the goal we want to get to is for me never to have to look again at that org."
–
@Bouazizalex
on how he's managed to let go amid Deel's 15x y-on-y growth.
Full episode:
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Our founders are full of wise words we want to share beyond the Famiglia. 👨👩👧👦
Part 3 of Recapping Universo della Famiglia 2021 brings you 7 real-life learnings and challenges from tech founders building companies and transforming industries. 🔥
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Read more here:
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First Commerce-Tech dinner in Berlin, hosted together with
@ActivantCapital
. Connecting European commerce leaders, brands, and retailers. If you know anyone who would like to join next time, please ping
@HuebnerPaula
First-ever Commerce-Tech dinner in Berlin with our commerce gang
@CarstenThoma
@dirkhoerig
+ Addy Weissbeck (Charles) & Franz Purucker (Hive Logistics). Plus operators from across the stack incl.
@juliaboesch
and many more 🤩
Let me know if you would like to join next time!
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Jeannette zu Fürstenberg joined Joe Lonsdale for an episode of American Optimist. They discuss everything from the birth of entrepreneurship to identifying great founders to disruptive innovation.
Scroll down to Season 2: Episode 31 to tune in! 👉
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Time to sweep the planet - now at the speed of light! 🧹
Today, Sweep announced their $73M Series B led by Coatue and joined by Tony Fadell to double down on their mission to help companies minimize carbon emissions. 🌍
Proud to be their supporters from day 1. 🙌
12 months, $100M raised and a growing team across Europe and the US 🌍
We’re starting our new chapter with global investment firm Coatue and
@tfadell
– ready to help more corporate and financial organizations take data-driven
#climateaction
. Here's how:
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@vietdle
from our team wrote a blog post about The Cost of ML & the Defensibility Flywheel. Enjoy!
What happened to the chatbot companies that emerged five years ago? And how did Instagram become such a defensible ML-enabled product?
Here, I talk about the common reasons why ML-enabled companies fail to scale and how they can build up defensibility
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Jeannette zu Fürstenberg joined
@soakedbyslush
to discuss what bridging old and new economy at La Famiglia looks like in practice, how companies like Forto are navigating the digital transformation, what creativity has to do with VC and more.
📖 Read the article here 👇
‘
@lafamigliaVC
is a place where different generations come together to make everyone better.
Founding Partner Jeanette zu Fürstenberg told us how these connections help revolutionize industries, access top talent, and make for a happier family overall⬇️
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We see Mistral as currently the only real opportunity to build a sovereign European player in AI and are happy to join our fellow friends Lightspeed and many more on this mission.
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