Varun Purandare

Global Tech Investing

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
9
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Investor
2024
Advance global entrepreneurship and amplify the positive impact of tech-led innovation
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2021
charles is a Berlin-based WhatsApp marketing platform and Meta Solution Partner. Our easy-to-use software enables businesses to drive revenue, retention and innovative customer experiences by complementing existing marketing channels with the reach and richness of WhatsApp. We do so by enabling CRM teams to set-up recurring flows and automations based on consumer specific events in a personalized manner. We support businesses to stay GDPR-compliant and consistently iterate in this new channel while also integrating with select CRM, service and shop systems such as Shopify, Klaviyo, Emarsys and Zendesk to leverage data for their omnichannel strategy.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2021
The business planning platform for finance and beyond.
Investor
Apr 2020
What does your Bank offer?
Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2019
Luko is one of the insurtech leader in France making home insurance simple and transparent. With Luko, you get insured in 2 minutes, you really understand what you pay for and can manage your contract and claim directly from your app. A seamless experience without the headaches: no paper, no engagement, no hidden cost!
early stageInsurance
Investor
Apr 2019
sennder – Europe’s #1 digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. sennder, a leading digital road freight forwarder in Europe, is offering shippers access to a connected fleet of thousands of trucks. In a traditional industry, we are moving fast and focus on the digitalization and automation of all road logistics processes. sennder deploys over 40,000 trucks across Europe, with access to more than 120,000 vehicles, and has a team of over 1,600 people. By leveraging our proprietary technology and offering advanced green transport solutions, we are creating a transparent, flexible and efficient road freight network. sennder is backed by some of Europe’s leading investors including Baillie Gifford, Accel, HV Capital and Lakestar along with industry experts Poste Italiane and Scania to assure innovation and state of the art offerings. Imprint: https://www.sennder.com/imprint Privacy Policy: https://www.sennder.com/privacy-policy
Investor
Jan 2019
CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale is a time-series logging and aggregation platform for unrestricted, comprehensive event analysis, On-Premises or in the Cloud. With 1TB/day of raw log ingest/node, in-memory stream processing, and live, shareable dashboards and alerts, you can instantly and in real-time explore, monitor, and visualize any system’s data. Unique features of Humio include: • All-you-can-eat site license: Unlimited log volumes at fixed price/yr • Handles large data volumes efficiently (up to a 1 TB/day of data on a single node) • Streaming live queries, alerts, and dashboards provide an instant view into system and application health • Ad-hoc search capabilities Falcon LogScale’s innovative data storage and in-memory search engine technologies provide a cost-competitive log management and analysis solution that requires significantly less hardware, engineering resources, and licensing costs vs. competing solutions. Get more info and start a free trial at www.humio.com.
Investor
Oct 2018
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
mid stageBanking
Experience · 11 entries
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2024
Investor
2024
Advance global entrepreneurship and amplify the positive impact of tech-led innovation
2021
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2021
charles is a Berlin-based WhatsApp marketing platform and Meta Solution Partner. Our easy-to-use software enables businesses to drive revenue, retention and innovative customer experiences by complementing existing marketing channels with the reach and richness of WhatsApp. We do so by enabling CRM teams to set-up recurring flows and automations based on consumer specific events in a personalized manner. We support businesses to stay GDPR-compliant and consistently iterate in this new channel while also integrating with select CRM, service and shop systems such as Shopify, Klaviyo, Emarsys and Zendesk to leverage data for their omnichannel strategy.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2021
The business planning platform for finance and beyond.
2020
Investor
Apr 2020
What does your Bank offer?
2019
Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2019
Luko is one of the insurtech leader in France making home insurance simple and transparent. With Luko, you get insured in 2 minutes, you really understand what you pay for and can manage your contract and claim directly from your app. A seamless experience without the headaches: no paper, no engagement, no hidden cost!
early stageInsurance
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