Index Ventures vormt nieuw early stage fonds van 350 mln euro
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Today we're delighted to announce our new ?350m early stage technology fund. It's the final piece of 1bn of new capital we?ve raised in the last 12 months to complement the international platform we have been building to invest in both early stage and growth technology as well as life sciences companies.
Every week our investment team spends time in cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm and Tel Aviv and we are fortunate to meet amazing entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are driven by the incredible opportunities they see to change the status quo. They see a world in which few industries are safe from transformation when you combine the mainstream reach and relative capital efficiency of the Internet, mobile and cloud computing with disruptive new business models like marketplaces and SaaS.
While technology adoption is increasingly rapid and worldwide, we continue to believe that Europe will be fertile ground to discover and help develop world beating innovations. In fact, even while Europe is facing massive macroeconomic challenges, at the same time we have seen very clearly that European startups are coming of age. In fact in our portfolio alone there are now at least 20 European born private companies with significant scale in 2011 these companies alone had combined 2011 revenues of ?1.3bn and y/y growth of around 75 percent ? plus these are businesses which have created more than 5,000 new jobs in the last 10 years.
So with our new fund, we couldn?t be more excited to continue to seek out and partner with the very best seed and early-stage teams wherever they are to help finance innovations across some of the major areas in which we are actively investing, including: big data, cloud (consumer & enterprise), commerce (especially fashion), financial services, games, mobile and marketplaces. People often ask us what we look for in investments and whether that has changed much over the years certainly the themes of our investments evolve and change over time, but our focus on the types of founders and opportunities we look for has remained very consistent.
Every week our investment team spends time in cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm and Tel Aviv and we are fortunate to meet amazing entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs are driven by the incredible opportunities they see to change the status quo. They see a world in which few industries are safe from transformation when you combine the mainstream reach and relative capital efficiency of the Internet, mobile and cloud computing with disruptive new business models like marketplaces and SaaS.
While technology adoption is increasingly rapid and worldwide, we continue to believe that Europe will be fertile ground to discover and help develop world beating innovations. In fact, even while Europe is facing massive macroeconomic challenges, at the same time we have seen very clearly that European startups are coming of age. In fact in our portfolio alone there are now at least 20 European born private companies with significant scale in 2011 these companies alone had combined 2011 revenues of ?1.3bn and y/y growth of around 75 percent ? plus these are businesses which have created more than 5,000 new jobs in the last 10 years.
So with our new fund, we couldn?t be more excited to continue to seek out and partner with the very best seed and early-stage teams wherever they are to help finance innovations across some of the major areas in which we are actively investing, including: big data, cloud (consumer & enterprise), commerce (especially fashion), financial services, games, mobile and marketplaces. People often ask us what we look for in investments and whether that has changed much over the years certainly the themes of our investments evolve and change over time, but our focus on the types of founders and opportunities we look for has remained very consistent.