About Visionaries Club
Visionaries Club is a venture capital firm founded in 2018. It is primarily based out of Berlin, Germany. As of Feb 2025, Visionaries Club is an active investor, having invested in 40 companies, with 4 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in Germany based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to FinTech and High Tech. Most recently it led the $4.5M Seed round of along with Fifty Years. This round also saw participation from Possible Ventures and other investors.
Overall, Visionaries Club portfolio has seen 2 unicorns and 4 acquisitions including key companies like Personio, TrueLayer and Quantive. A lot of funds co-invest with Visionaries Club, with names like Sequoia Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Visionaries Club has team of 3 people including 1 partners.
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Visionaries Club's List of Top Investments
Visionaries Club has a portfolio of 40 companies, including 2 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Pivot and Pivot.Their portfolio spans across Germany, United Kingdom, United States听补苍诲 4 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, FinTech, High Tech听补苍诲 19 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A 听补苍诲 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Visionaries Club:1. Personio
Cloud-based HRMS platform for SMBs. It provides features such as payroll administration, attendance and recruitment management, onboarding, performance monitoring. The features include SSL encryption and two-factor authentication based security for the data. The product is available on the subscription-based pricing plan.
Key facts about Personio
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Munich (Germany)
- Valuation: $8.5B as on Jun 22, 2022
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $772M
- Investors: CPP Investments, Meritech and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Jun 21, 2022, $200M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. TrueLayer
Provider of open banking API solutions for payment institutions. It connects third-party organizations to bank infrastructures, allowing them to see the account balances of customers, transactions, and credit card information. This data enables the creation of consumer and SMB applications in areas like payments, online lending, PFM, robot advisors, customer onboarding, insurance, investment services, P2P marketplaces, and cryptocurrencies.
Key facts about TrueLayer
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Annual Revenue: 拢4.81M as on Dec 31, 2022
- Valuation: $750M as on Oct 07, 2024
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $322M
- Investors: Temasek, and 23 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Oct 04, 2024, $50M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Quantive
Provider of AI-powered strategy management software for planning, execution, and adaptation. The software aligns plans, teams, and data, enabling users to adapt to market shifts and deliver results. It offers features for executives to gain real-time visibility, for strategy and operations leaders to connect plans to execution, and for department heads to align goals. The platform facilitates planning, execution, and adaptation, turning strategy into a collaborative process. It helps streamline decisions, reduce risk, boost efficiency, and predict outcomes. The company also provides consulting and success services.
Key facts about Quantive
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Denver (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $161M
- Investors: Index Ventures, CRV and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Dec 13, 2021, $120M
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Pledge
Provider of a platform for logistics emissions management. This platform enables logistics service providers, freight forwarders, carriers, shippers, and enterprises to accurately calculate and report carbon emissions. It streamlines the tracking of logistics supplier data to reduce Scope 3 emissions and promote sustainable procurement practices. The platform offers resources, insights, and tools to support users in meeting sustainability goals and complying with regulatory demands.
Key facts about Pledge
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Last Known Valuation: 拢57.6M as on Nov 14, 2022
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $23.8M
- Employee Count: 20 as on Mar 31, 2023
- Investors: ACE Ventures, Globivest and 25 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 14, 2022, $19.3M
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Causaly
Provider of AI-based data-mining tool for scientists. The company has developed AI-based software that enables the researchers to discovers evidence form academic publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, patents, and other data sources. It curates the information from hidden links that connects biomedical cause and effect relationship.
Key facts about Causaly
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $93M
- Employee Count: 62 as on Dec 31, 2023
- Investors: Index Ventures, Iconiq Capital and 14 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 13, 2023, $60M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Visionaries Club's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Visionaries Club has invested in 40 companies over the last 5 years, with an average of 7 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2024, it made 6 investments, while as of Feb 2025, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Taktile and most recent follow-on round was in secjur.
Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st听搁辞耻苍诲 | Follow-on | Total | |
2025 (YTD) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2024 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
2023 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
2022 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
2021 | 13 | 2 | 15 |
2020 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
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Visionaries Club's Investments by Stage
Visionaries Club has made 20 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $19.2M, 8 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $23.2M, 7 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $61.6M, 1 investment in Series C stage with an average round size of $120M and 1 investment in Series D stage with an average round size of $70M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 20 |
Series A | 8 |
Series B | 7 |
Series C | 1 |
Series D | 1 |
Visionaries Club's Investments by Sector
Visionaries Club has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTech, Vertical SaaS and Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications. Notably, it has invested in 35 Tech companies, 32 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 30 Software companies and at least 19 companies focusing on Saas.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 24 |
High Tech | 11 |
FinTech | 9 |
Vertical SaaS | 8 |
Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications | 6 |
Others | 41 |
Visionaries Club's Investments by Geography
Visionaries Club has made most investments in Germany (18), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 9 investments.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Germany | 18 |
United Kingdom | 9 |
United States | 3 |
France | 2 |
Switzerland | 2 |
Others | 2 |
Visionaries Club's recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Visionaries Club:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Feb 28, 2025 | Germany | Series B | $54M | Balderton Capital [+5] | |
Jan 22, 2025 | United Kingdom | Series B | $55M | Balderton Capital [+3] | |
Nov 28, 2024 | Germany | Seed | Undisclosed | [+2] | |
Oct 02, 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | $7.1M | Anamcara [+1] | |
Sep 17, 2024 | United Kingdom | Series A | $24M | [+10] |
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Here is a list of unicorns in Visionaries Club's portfolio:
秘密研究所 Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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71 | Provider of open banking API solutions for payment institutions | 2016 | London | Series E | sndzuwo | ||
71 | Cloud-based HRMS platform for SMBs | 2015 | Munich | Series E | ezmjjrz |
Acquired companies in Visionaries Club's Portfolio
Here are Visionaries Club's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Team profile of Visionaries Club
Visionaries Club has a team of 3 members听颈苍肠濒耻诲颈苍驳 1 Partner and 2 Principals聽located in Germany. Visionaries Club's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Visionaries Club:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact details |
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Partner | Berlin | - | ||
Principal | Munich | - | ||
Principal | - | - |
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Over the past 5 years, 308 investors have co-invested in Visionaries Club's portfolio companies.
- Invested before Visionaries Club:听Techstars, Index Ventures and 79 others have invested in rounds before Visionaries Club. There are 2 companies where Techstars has invested before Visionaries Club and 2 companies where Index Ventures has invested before Visionaries Club.
- Top Co-investors of Visionaries Club:听161 investors entered a company along with Visionaries Club. These include investors like Sequoia Capital (4 companies).
- Invested after Visionaries Club:听A total of 66 investors have invested in Visionaries Club's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Tiger Global Management (3 companies), Nico Rosberg (2 companies) and Cherry Ventures (2 companies).
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