e.ventures, a San Francisco and Berlin, Germany-based tech-enabled venture capital firm, announced $400M in new capital across two early stage funds.
They include:
– a $225M US-focused fund based out of San Francisco and
– a $175M Europe-focused fund based out of Berlin.
Founded in 1999 by Mathias Schilling, US Managing Partner, and Christian Leybold, EU Managing Partner, e.ventures will use this capital to continue to partner with entrepreneurs building rapidly scaling, category-creating consumer, SaaS, and fintech companies with global aspirations.
This sixth generation of early stage funds will invest $1.5M to $10M into technology startups ranging from Pre-A with traction to Series A and early Series B.
e.ventures has supported over 200 startups globally with notable US investments including Sonos, AngiesList, TheRealReal, Shipt, Segment, NGINX, GoPuff, and Acorns and European investments including FarFetch, Deposit Solutions, CityDeal/Groupon, Natural Cycles, Blinkist, and Asana Rebel.
The firm, which has $1.6B under management, e.ventures’ investments range from seed to growth and global partners in Beijing, Tokyo, and São Paulo, also leverages a proprietary technology platform, EVA technology, which provides scale, insights, and efficiency to the investment team and competitive landscaping to portfolio companies, and Athena, a proprietary BI tool for companies that generates valuable insights into the business engine, delivering actionable insights for company growth.