Andrea Funsten

This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing ambitious founders who are reshaping the world with technology. Over the last two decades, we have partnered with over 150+ founders across the world, including Datadog, DeliveryHero, Qonto, Datarobot, Miro, Picsart, Cred and SumUp.

An early-stage venture capital fund that invests in audacious entrepreneurs across categories and geographies at the pre-seed and seed stage. As founders ourselves, we have deep empathy for entrepreneurs. We move quickly. We don’t take board seats.

This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.

As cities grow at an unprecedented speed, we believe that innovations in technology can be used to design communities that are more efficient, responsive and resilient. Loop is a community-based commerce platform designed to aggregate consumer demand at the hyperlocal level. Starting with your residential building, Loop enables neighbors at the same address to purchase products and services as a group, and access exclusive discounts from local businesses through shared logistics and volume-based efficiencies. By first enabling lower customer acquisition costs through demand aggregation and hyper-targeted delivery zones, we laid the groundwork for a shared logistics and marketing backbone that local businesses could plug into. With Loop as the connective layer, local businesses could collaborate on promotions, bundle products or services across storefronts, share delivery fleets, and even negotiate with suppliers collectively giving small businesses the network effects of scale. We evolved from being a purely consumer-facing platform to an infrastructure layer for local commerce, or the operating system for local economies. v1: The Private Social Network for Buildings: inspired by the hyperlocal trust dynamics of Nextdoor but reimagined for single-building communities v2.  Local Services Marketplace: We introduced a way for local service providers (cleaning, grocery and goods delivery, pet care, home maintenance, tailoring, beauty, etc.) to offer discounts when appointments and drop-offs could be grouped by building. Platform transactions exceeded high six figures in <6mo. v.3  B2B Social Network for Local Businesses: an unexpected trend emerged where businesses were using Loop not just to reach customers, but to connect with each other. We built a parallel private network for SMBs to collaborate on offers, share operational best practices, and access pooled resources (staff/supplies/logistics). Grew to a network of 700+ local businesses.