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2025
Runware delivers AI-as-a-Service at 5–10x lower cost and with higher speed than competitors. Built for scale, the service has already powered 4 billion+ creations for +100K developers and +250M end-users worldwide. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, Runware is backed by Insight Partners and a16z.
Investor & Board Observer
2025
Blackwall (formerly BotGuard) is a security and web infrastructure company founded in 2019 by Nikita Rozenberg (CEO) and Denis Prochko (CTO). The company provides AI-enabled web traffic management solutions by partnering with Hosting Services Providers (HSP’s), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and eCommerce Platforms, who typically host thousands, to hundreds of thousands of websites.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Qogita is a leading global wholesale B2B platform that offers a wide variety of products, brands and categories across geographies. We cater to a large range of organizations, from small retailers to large brands. With Qogita, you can generate higher margins and greater turnover whilst reducing labor cost by using our technology infrastructure. Were a technology company that simplifies business-to-business trade.
Most recently we have raised €80m in Series B Funding, with our investors being the backers of companies such as Facebook, Pinterest, Linkedin and Twitch.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Fonoa is the Tax Operating System for autonomous tax. AI that tracks every rule, acts on every obligation, and proves every decision, built on modular infrastructure.
Fonoas modules cover the full indirect tax lifecycle: tax ID validation, real-time tax determination, e-invoicing, and returns. All on one shared data model and integration, with one audit trail. Each added capability makes the others stronger.
Agents monitor obligations, populate returns, catch anomalies and assemble audit packs in seconds. The system does the work. Humans make the calls. Thats autonomous tax.
We operate across 120+ countries, with clients going live in weeks, if not days.
Trusted by Canva, Netflix, Spotify, Uber, Zoom and Booking.com. Rated 4.5/5 stars and a High Performer on G2 and 4.6/5 stars on Gartner Peer Insights.
Investor
2021
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Investor & Board Observer
2021
Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime for more than 250 million devices across 80 countries each month. Organizations like HubSpot and Verizon, depend on Ably’s platform to offload the growing complexity of business-critical realtime data synchronization at global scale.
Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data – consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. As a result, synchronized data in realtime is business critical for many organizations. But building homegrown realtime synchronization capabilities is complex and costly. Ably simplifies this.
In the same way that content delivery networks simplify and underpin large parts of the internet, Ably is the invisible platform and infrastructure layer powering the realtime revolution on a global scale. As the de facto platform for developers at organizations of all sizes, Ably is on track to reach one billion devices per month by 2023.
Investor
2018
Roivant aims to improve health by rapidly delivering innovative medicines and technologies to patients. We do this by building Vants – nimble, entrepreneurial biotech and healthcare technology companies with a unique approach to sourcing talent, aligning incentives, and deploying technology.
The therapies in development across our family of companies target a wide range of diseases including uterine fibroids, endometriosis, prostate cancer, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and multiple rare and fatal pediatric conditions. We focus on disease areas where the magnitude of R&D investment from industry is disproportionately low relative to societal medical needs.
In addition to our biopharmaceutical subsidiaries, we also build technology-focused Vants focused on improving the process of developing and commercializing medicines.
Investor
2018
Forto was founded with the vision to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain. Forto platform technologies address the entire process stream, from offer, booking, document administration, tracking and tracing to pro-active exemption processing and analysis, supporting our customers with greater visibility, insight and control. Leading manufacturers and e-commerce brands are among the 2.500 customers using our tech-enabled offerings as part of their supply chain delivery. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, we currently count more than 500 employees with 15 locations across Europe and Asia including offices in Berlin, Milan, Warsaw, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
Fortos privacy policy: https://forto.com/en/privacy-policy/
Our imprint: https://forto.com/en/imprint/
Investor
2018
Energy Vault® develops and deploys utility-scale energy storage solutions designed to transform the worlds approach to sustainable energy storage. The companys comprehensive offerings include proprietary gravity-based storage, battery storage, and green hydrogen energy storage technologies. Each storage solution is supported by the Company’s hardware technology-agnostic energy management system software and integration platform.
Unique to the industry, Energy Vault’s innovative technology portfolio delivers customized short-and-long-duration energy storage solutions to help utilities, independent power producers, and large industrial energy users significantly reduce levelized energy costs while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial reuse, Energy Vault’s EVx™ gravity-based energy storage technology is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the global clean energy transition for its customers.
Please visit www.energyvault.com for more information.
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2025
Investor & Board
2025
Runware delivers AI-as-a-Service at 5–10x lower cost and with higher speed than competitors. Built for scale, the service has already powered 4 billion+ creations for +100K developers and +250M end-users worldwide. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, Runware is backed by Insight Partners and a16z.
Investor & Board Observer
2025
Blackwall (formerly BotGuard) is a security and web infrastructure company founded in 2019 by Nikita Rozenberg (CEO) and Denis Prochko (CTO). The company provides AI-enabled web traffic management solutions by partnering with Hosting Services Providers (HSP’s), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and eCommerce Platforms, who typically host thousands, to hundreds of thousands of websites.
2022
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Qogita is a leading global wholesale B2B platform that offers a wide variety of products, brands and categories across geographies. We cater to a large range of organizations, from small retailers to large brands. With Qogita, you can generate higher margins and greater turnover whilst reducing labor cost by using our technology infrastructure. Were a technology company that simplifies business-to-business trade.
Most recently we have raised €80m in Series B Funding, with our investors being the backers of companies such as Facebook, Pinterest, Linkedin and Twitch.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Fonoa is the Tax Operating System for autonomous tax. AI that tracks every rule, acts on every obligation, and proves every decision, built on modular infrastructure.
Fonoas modules cover the full indirect tax lifecycle: tax ID validation, real-time tax determination, e-invoicing, and returns. All on one shared data model and integration, with one audit trail. Each added capability makes the others stronger.
Agents monitor obligations, populate returns, catch anomalies and assemble audit packs in seconds. The system does the work. Humans make the calls. Thats autonomous tax.
We operate across 120+ countries, with clients going live in weeks, if not days.
Trusted by Canva, Netflix, Spotify, Uber, Zoom and Booking.com. Rated 4.5/5 stars and a High Performer on G2 and 4.6/5 stars on Gartner Peer Insights.
2021
Principal
2021
Dawn is Europe’s leading specialist B2B software investor, with total commitments of $2bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams, exceptional technology and scalable business models to create category-defining global companies.
Dawn is an early-stage investor, backing companies from Series A and B, and continuing to fund the top-performing through growth rounds to exit. Its roster of investments includes Mimecast (formerly NASDAQ-listed, taken private by Permira in a $5.8bn transaction), iZettle (sold to PayPal for $2.2bn cash), Tink (purchased by Visa for $2.0bn), LeanIX (acquired by SAP), as well as current leaders, Collibra, Dataiku, Quantexa, amongst many others.
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