Magnus Karnehm

Partner at Left Lane Capital

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
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Series A Investor
Jun 2024
ConverzAI empowers staffing companies with a Virtual Recruiter solution that autonomously completes and optimizes various aspects of the recruitment process, delivering unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability. ​ For us conversations come before AI and that’s what inspires us to innovate. It’s the engagement experience that matters the most and we ensure that experience is human-like and transparent to sustain meaningful long conversations. Our AI solutions help organizations achieve their potential by scaling human engagement processes while delivering powerful strategic insights that encourage recruiting strategy refinements to help more candidates land the job they desire. Let’s meet to unlock your potential - https://www.converzai.com.
Investor
Jun 2019
Yassir is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (~$200M in funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
Cognigy is transforming the customer service industry with the most advanced AI Agent platform for enterprise contact centers. Its award-winning solution, Cognigy.AI, empowers enterprises to deliver instant, hyper-personalized, multilingual service on any channel. By integrating Generative and Conversational AI to create Agentic AI, Cognigy delivers AI Agents that redefine customer experiences, drive satisfaction, and support contact center employees in real-time. Built on the world’s leading Conversational AI platform, Cognigy.AI delivers next-gen customer service through solutions like Voice AI Agents, Digital Chat AI Agents, and Agent Copilot. With dozens of pre-trained skills and Agentic AI capabilities, the platform seamlessly integrates into enterprise systems. By leveraging memory and context, Cognigys AI Agents provide hyper-personalized interactions and strengthen customer relationships. Agentic AI also fosters collaboration between AI and human agents, giving them superpowers to deliver exceptional service. Over 1000 brands worldwide trust Cognigy and its vast partner network to create AI customer service agents for their contact center. Cognigys impressive worldwide customer portfolio includes Bosch, Nestlé, DHL, Lufthansa Group, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota.    For more information and to book a demo visit: www.cognigy.com  We are hiring: https://careers.cognigy.com/ Visit our blog: https://www.cognigy.com/blog Meet our customers: https://www.cognigy.com/customer-success-stories https://www.cognigy.com/legal-notice/
Board Observer
2019
HomeToGo was founded in 2014 with a vision to make incredible homes easily accessible to everyone. HomeToGo has since grown to become the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals. With 15M+ offers across thousands of trusted partners globally, HomeToGo’s AI-powered marketplace expertly matches supply and demand to connect travelers with the perfect vacation rental for any trip around the world. As the go_to destination for vacation rentals, HomeToGo offers the world’s largest vacation rental selection combined with an end-to-end convenient, trusted and intuitive product experience. HomeToGo_PRO, the Company’s B2B business segment, offers innovative Software & Service Solutions including Subscriptions for the whole travel market with a special focus on SaaS for the supply-side of vacation rentals. While HomeToGo SEs registered office is located in Luxembourg, HomeToGo GmbH is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. HomeToGo operates localized apps and websites in 25 countries. HomeToGo SE is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the stock ticker “HTG”. For more information visit: www.hometogo.com/about
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2024
Series A Investor
Jun 2024
ConverzAI empowers staffing companies with a Virtual Recruiter solution that autonomously completes and optimizes various aspects of the recruitment process, delivering unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability. ​ For us conversations come before AI and that’s what inspires us to innovate. It’s the engagement experience that matters the most and we ensure that experience is human-like and transparent to sustain meaningful long conversations. Our AI solutions help organizations achieve their potential by scaling human engagement processes while delivering powerful strategic insights that encourage recruiting strategy refinements to help more candidates land the job they desire. Let’s meet to unlock your potential - https://www.converzai.com.
2022
Principal
Dec 2022
Left Lane is a global venture capital and growth equity firm investing in high-growth internet and consumer technology companies that are fundamental to the lives of customers. The foundation of Left Lane’s strategy is built on four main elements: specialization in internet-first businesses, proprietary sourcing at every level, deep data rigor and best practices, and a genuine philosophy around partnering with founders. Across our network and portfolio, our mission is to help support and scale category-defining companies that support long-term customer relationships, such as GoStudent, M1 Finance, Tovala, FightCamp, Wayflyer, and more. For more information, please visit www.leftlanecap.com
2019
Investor
Jun 2019
Yassir is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (~$200M in funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
Cognigy is transforming the customer service industry with the most advanced AI Agent platform for enterprise contact centers. Its award-winning solution, Cognigy.AI, empowers enterprises to deliver instant, hyper-personalized, multilingual service on any channel. By integrating Generative and Conversational AI to create Agentic AI, Cognigy delivers AI Agents that redefine customer experiences, drive satisfaction, and support contact center employees in real-time. Built on the world’s leading Conversational AI platform, Cognigy.AI delivers next-gen customer service through solutions like Voice AI Agents, Digital Chat AI Agents, and Agent Copilot. With dozens of pre-trained skills and Agentic AI capabilities, the platform seamlessly integrates into enterprise systems. By leveraging memory and context, Cognigys AI Agents provide hyper-personalized interactions and strengthen customer relationships. Agentic AI also fosters collaboration between AI and human agents, giving them superpowers to deliver exceptional service. Over 1000 brands worldwide trust Cognigy and its vast partner network to create AI customer service agents for their contact center. Cognigys impressive worldwide customer portfolio includes Bosch, Nestlé, DHL, Lufthansa Group, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota.    For more information and to book a demo visit: www.cognigy.com  We are hiring: https://careers.cognigy.com/ Visit our blog: https://www.cognigy.com/blog Meet our customers: https://www.cognigy.com/customer-success-stories https://www.cognigy.com/legal-notice/
Investment Manager
Jan 2019
DN Capital is a global early stage and growth capital investor focused on Seed, Series A and select series B investments in fintech, SaaS, digital media, e-commerce, marketplaces, mobile applications and software companies. The firm was founded in 2000 and has operations in London, Berlin and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’s previous funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (worlds largest used car marketplaces), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit). The professionals at DN Capital bring over 75 years of private equity experience to their investments, and actively work with portfolio companies to steward their growth through the various stages of development. Additional information about the firm and its portfolio companies can be found at http://www.dncapital.com.
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