| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.05.2024 | Why we continue to support Parloa | Hi there,
As you might have heard, in the past weeks, our portfolio company, Parloa, announced a significant milestone. The company raised $66 million in Series B funding, marking the largest Series B funding round in the European contact c... |
| 08.05.2024 | Why we invested in Alleo | Hi there,
There are a variety of employee benefit-related schemes available in the market, however, their uptake remains low in numbers due to the regulations and manual management involved. Employers can only offer their employees a limite... |
| 03.04.2024 | Newion is hiring a visiting analyst (4-6 months internship) | With our fourth fund going into its second year, we’re looking to expand our team with a visiting analyst, starting in Q4 of 2024.
On our mission to seek out and support the next generation of market leaders in the B2B software space, we’re... |
| 25.03.2024 | Newion is hiring an Associate | With our forth fund going into its second year, we’re looking to expand our team with an Associate.
On our mission to seek out and support the next generation of market leaders in the B2B software space, we’re adding this position to our p... |
| 03.03.2024 | Newion is hiring an additional Analyst | With our forth fund going into its second year, we’re looking to expand our team with an additional Analyst.
On our mission to seek out and support the next generation of market leaders in the B2B software space, we’re adding a junior posi... |
| 17.01.2024 | Why we invested in airfocus | Hi there,
Last week, we unveiled our investment in Airfocus, a Hamburg-based company specializing in a modular product management platform. After Parloa, Delphai, and Filestage, Airfocus marks our fourth investment in Germany and is the la... |
| 10.01.2024 | airfocus Raises $7.5M to Transform Enterprise Product Management Globally | Hamburg, Germany Jan 10, 2023 – Hamburg-based startup airfocus, a leading product management software, has successfully closed a $7.5M fundraising round led by Newion with the participation of XAnge, Nauta, Riverside Acceleration Capital, a... |
| 08.01.2024 | News on investments – December 2023 | Hi there,
We hope you all enjoyed a warm end of the year 2023 with family and friends. We have the impression that 2023 flew by at record speed.
As we launched Newion 4 in October 2022, 2023 was packed with research and initial investment... |
| 11.12.2023 | Tax Systems Acquires TaxModel to Broaden Product Suite and Expand International Reach | Acquisition Adds Significant New Capabilities to the Tax Systems Software Portfolio and Boosts Presence Across 25 Additional Countries
LONDON, 11 DECEMBER 2023 – Tax Systems, the leading tax compliance software supplier in the UK and Irela... |
| 10.10.2023 | News on investments – September 2023 | Hi there,
As we transition into the final quarter of 2023, this year has brought Newion a blend of milestones and challenges. Among them, the loss of our venture partner, Erik Averink, deeply affected our team. Erik’s contributions were fo... |
| 14.09.2023 | Why we invested in Ellie | Hi there,
Last week we announced our investment into Ellie. Ellie is our 7th addition to the Newion IV portfolio and our first investment in a Finnish company, exciting! Below you find an outline of our investment thesis, written by Denisa... |
| 31.08.2023 | Ellie.ai Secures €2.5M in Seed Funding to Help Data Teams Design Great Data Products | Helsinki, August 31, 2023 – Ellie.ai, a pioneer in product design and collaboration software for data teams, announced today that it has secured a €2.5 million seed funding round. This marks a significant milestone in the company’s journey.... |
| 12.07.2023 | [Knowledge Sharing] Adding value to your roadmap | Roadmaps are about communication. When the executives want to talk about money, the product managers want to talk about planning, and the software engineers want to talk about features, you need something to focus the discussion. A well-des... |
| 20.06.2023 | Why we invested in delphai | Hi there,
2 weeks ago we announced our latest initial investment into delphai. delphai became the 6th portfolio company of Newion 4, which we closed last September. Below you find an outline of our investment thesis, written by Denisa Koci... |
| 13.06.2023 | Salonkee Raises €28M to Fuel Continued Rapid Growth and Solidify Position as Europe’s Leading Provider of Salon Management Software | LUXEMBOURG, June 7, 2023 –
Salonkee, Europe’s premier salon management solution and booking platform for the hair- and beauty industry , today announced that it has raised €28M in growth capital to further extend market penetration across ... |
| 08.06.2023 | Dun & Bradstreet rival delphai secures $5 million to invest in a single source of business truth | 8 June 2023 – delphai announces a $5 million funding round (including a $1 million grant from the German government) to finance our groundbreaking AI models that are specifically trained to understand the international business landscape. U... |
| 18.04.2023 | Dexter Energy secures €10.5m in Series B funding | Amsterdam, April 18th, 2023 – Dexter Energy, a leading provider of AI-based renewable power generation forecasting and trade optimization products for the short-term energy markets, announced today that it had raised €10.5 million in a fres... |
| 06.04.2023 | News on investments – March 2023 | Hi there,
We are 3 months into 2023 and already a lot has happened. Portfolio company Parloa has raised a new €20M Series A round. We have moved our office and we welcomed 2 new team members, Maurits Spaan and Leopold Lindner.
Forrester, ... |
| 30.03.2023 | Parloa raises €20 million to propel international expansion of game-changing AI-based customer service | Series A funding fast-tracks growth for Berlin-based Contact Center AI Platform
Berlin, March 30, 2023 – Berlin-based enterprise software provider Parloa puts a stop to endless wait times and subpar customer service bots, winning a show of... |
| 02.03.2023 | Newion is hiring an Associate | Hi there!
With Newion 4 up and running successfully, we are looking for a talented new associate to join our team!
We’re ready to take on even more exciting opportunities and continue our mission of identifying and supporting the next gen... |
| 21.02.2023 | A new era in engineering is here: the new engineer is a software developer | The engineering world is on the brink of a new revolution, as VIKTOR, the leading application development platform in the engineering industry, now enables everyone to create, publish and share apps for free!
VIKTOR is trusted by leading e... |
| 12.01.2023 | News on investments – December 2022 | Hi there,
We hope you all had a great end-of-year period. We certainly enjoyed the Christmas break after a busy fourth quarter. Where we put extensive efforts into the mise-en-place for Newion 4, we could finally execute on these preparati... |
| 12.12.2022 | Dutch scale-up VIKTOR raises €5.1M to help engineers become software developers | Rotterdam-based VIKTOR, a company that provides a low code development platform for engineers to build and share apps fast, announced on Monday that it has raised €5.1M in a fresh round of funding.
The new funding from Newion, APG (ANET), ... |
| 23.11.2022 | Occtoo raises €4.6M to help digital teams build relevant experiences with their low-code composable Experience Data Platform | Malmö, 22nd of November 2022. Digital transformation and increased agility are top priorities for companies. The current market landscape has also increased the demand to see quicker returns on digital investments and an ability to do more ... |
| 27.10.2022 | News on investments – 3Q2022 | Hi there,
3Q22 was big for us. In case you missed the messaging about that, here it is again: We raised our 4th fund! Same focus as before: early-stage B2B SaaS companies with their HQ in BeNeLux, Nordics, or Germany. The only difference: ... |
| 26.10.2022 | YourCampus receives € 2.7 mln for reforming European labor market with flexible compensation | Personal benefits tailored to employee life stage and work location
Amsterdam, October 26, 2022 – YourCampus, the platform where employees can choose their own benefits and perks on an employer’s budget, has raised €2.7 mln in growth capit... |
| 21.10.2022 | Investors invest 4 million in legionella scale-up | Utrecht, October 21th, 2022 – Investors Newion, Volta and Concrete will together with an existing investor invest 4 million in scale-up LegionellaDossier. The software company, which was founded in 2016 and has since doubled in size a few t... |
| 05.10.2022 | Newion launches Newion IV | AMSTERDAM, October 5th, 2022 – Newion, a successful venture capital investor targeting early-stage business software companies in the Benelux, Nordics, and Germany, opens its fourth investment fund – Newion IV – with an initial closing of 1... |
| 12.07.2022 | News on investments – June 2022 | Hi there,
Hello summer! 6 months have passed by already! Last quarter, we announced our investment in Parloa, the enabler of next-gen customer success experiences. We sold our stake in Asysco to Avenade. Asysco was part of the Newion famil... |
| 13.05.2022 | Parloa raises 4M EUR to bring an end to the customer service madness | Berlin, May 12th 2022 – Parloa, a leading SaaS platform for Conversational AI, today
announced that it raised 4M Euros. Newion, Senovo, Michael Wax and Erik Muttersbach
(co-founders Forto), Nicolas Peters (co-founder Signavio), and other re... |
| 05.04.2022 | News on investments – March 2022 | Hi there,
The first quarter of 2022 already passed by again. Time flies when you’re having fun, and fun we had here at Newion. In January we welcomed our new intern Jan, who has already shown his impact during the past few months. During 1... |
| 25.01.2022 | Deliverect Raises $150 Million in Series D Funding, as it Reaches 100 Million Orders Processed | Company also announces launch of Deliverect App Store, building a dedicated ecosystem for online order automation
NEW YORK AND LONDON, January 25, 2022 – Deliverect, a global scale-up that simplifies online ordering for more than 20,000 lo... |
| 20.01.2022 | Prepr raises EUR 2.25M to redefine headless CMS & personalization | The world’s first data-driven CMS will use investment to expand in Europe and improve features even further
Utrecht, January 20, 2022 – Prepr, the world’s first headless CMS that allows businesses to personalize customer experiences, has r... |
| 18.01.2022 | ValueBlue raises 11 Million USD to fuel Agile Business Transformation worldwide | New Series B Financing Round Led By Octopus Ventures and Newion Will Accelerate Company’s Global Growth
UTRECHT / LONDON / AMSTERDAM / NEW YORK, JANUARY 18, 2022, 3 PM CET — ValueBlue, a leading and innovative provider of SaaS solutions in... |
| 31.12.2021 | News on investments – December 2021 | With our newsletter News on Investments, we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 13.12.2021 | Email AdTech company Passendo raises €2.3M to boost media publishers’ Ad revenues | Copenhagen/Amsterdam/London, December 13, 2021– Passendo, the Email AdTech company that boosts email marketers’ revenues, announces to have raised €2.3 million in a pre-Series A round led by Amsterdam-based VC Newion, together with the UK-b... |
| 09.11.2021 | Wat is het geheim van een high growth SaaS Business? Patrick Polak – Newion | Newion is partner van de SaaS Bazen Community and Patrick Polak was te gast voor de laatste editite om te praten over zijn ervaringen als investeerder in B2B SaaS bedrijven. Dat hij dat al tientallen jaren doet is goed te horen. Als board m... |
| 08.11.2021 | Newion is looking for an Investment Analyst |
Choosing to apply for a role as Analyst is a way to kickstart your career and should be done with a sense of exploration, curiosity and willingness to learn in a fast-paced working environment.
Mastering the job means being able to ass... |
| 06.10.2021 | News on investments – September 2021 | With our newsletter News on Investments we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 14.09.2021 | Fast-growing FoodTech player Deliverect is looking for 150 new employees and opens innovative office in Ghent | Flexibility and social interaction are key to innovative concept with less than 50% of classic office space
AMERSFOORT/ GHENT, 14 September 2021 – Deliverect, the Belgian scale-up that connects online food delivery companies like Uber Eats... |
| 24.08.2021 | Foleon announces $10 million Series C funding | Amsterdam, August 10, 2021
Foleon announces $10 million Series C funding to fuel product development and international growth.
Foleon, a SaaS vendor in the B2B content marketing space, announces $10 million in Series C funding from existi... |
| 27.07.2021 | Salonkee raised €6.2 Million from international investors | Following its rapid growth from Luxembourg into Belgium and Switzerland, Salonkee just announced a 6.2 Million Series-A led by Fortino Capital and Newion, to further accelerate its European expansion.
After its initial traction and success... |
| 30.06.2021 | News on investments – June 2021 | With our newsletter News on Investments we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 19.05.2021 | Hospitality tech scale-up Apicbase raises 4M | AMSTERDAM / ANTWERP, 19 May 2021 – Apicbase, the international hospitality tech scale-up, announces it raised 4 million euros in a Series A funding round led by Volta Ventures, along with existing investors Newion, AAA Fund and Business Ang... |
| 21.04.2021 | Deliverect raises $65 million as it surpasses 30 million orders processed in the last year, equating to more than $1bn estimated order value | New investors DST Global Partners and Redpoint Ventures join Series C bringing total fundraising to more than $90 million in three years
GHENT, Belgium, April 21, 2021 — Today Deliverect, a Belgian scale-up that connects Uber Eats, Deliver... |
| 16.04.2021 | SwipeGuide closes €5M round to boost crowdsourced knowledge performance for manufacturing companies | Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 8th 2021: SwipeGuide, an Amsterdam-based B2B SaaS company, is the first company in Europe to facilitate the crowdsourcing of critical operational knowledge to improve performance across distributed teams for ma... |
| 15.04.2021 | News on investments – March 2021 | With our newsletter News on Investments we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 18.03.2021 | Newion led a €2 million investment round in Dexter Energy – to accelerate the energy transition | Amsterdam, March 18th, 2021 — Dexter Energy, a fast-growing startup that uses AI to help energy companies optimize their portfolios, has received a €2 million Series A investment led by Newion, an early-stage investor in B2B software compan... |
| 18.03.2021 | Emburse Elevates the Post-Pandemic Business Traveler Experience with Acquisition of Roadmap | Adds mobile booking, duty-of-care, sustainability and travel data solution to its spend management platform
LOS ANGELES and DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS – MARCH 16, 2021: Emburse, a global leader in expense management and accounts payable automa... |
| 08.03.2021 | Weezevent and PlayPass merge to become the leader in cashless event solutions | The two European leaders in cashless payment solutions have merged to form one company, offering their combined expertise to the leisure and entertainment sector.
The newly merged group will now be represented by six offices with more than... |
| 15.02.2021 | Easy branding and marketing thanks to new partnership: Filestage – BrandMaster | STUTTGART / OSLO, 15 February 2021 – Filestage, the Online Proofing SaaS platform, started a partnership with BrandMaster. The companies now offer a state-of-the-art customer-centric platform for brand management and marketing with online p... |
| 25.01.2021 | Newion exits its portfolio company, Reasult, to Planon | Planon, a global software provider in real estate and facility management, has acquired a majority stake in real estate software company Reasult B.V. in which Newion has been a shareholder since 2013.
Reasult B.V., founded in 2000 and head... |
| 20.01.2021 | We’re hiring – looking for our new team members. | Have you noticed how what you think a job is, and what it really is are usually not the same thing? The world of VC often seems enigmatic and alluring to many people outside of it. In some ways, VC’s can seem like these unattainable, busy p... |
| 12.01.2021 | Newion led a € 2.8M investment round in Filestage – with current investor HTGF and Carsten Maschmeyer’s seed+speed | STUTTGART / BERLIN / AMSTERDAM, 12 January 2021 – Filestage, the Online Proofing SaaS platform, has received €2.8M in a Series A investment round led by Newion, together with current investor HTGFandSeed+Speed by celebrity Carsten Maschmeye... |
| 04.01.2021 | News on Investments – December 2020 | With our newsletter News on Investments we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 15.11.2020 | Newion led a €2M investment round in Objective Platform | AMSTERDAM / LONDON, 16 November 2020 – Objective Platform, the European scale-up that provides marketing measurement and optimization software, has received €2M funding in an investment round led by Newion, early stage investor in B2B softw... |
| 14.10.2020 | Newion led a €2,5M investment round in Mediatool – together with J12 Ventures, Almi Invest and Twig | STOCKHOLM/ AMSTERDAM, 14 October 2020 – Mediatool, the company that offers media management software for omnichannel marketeers, has received €2,5M in an investment round led by Newion, early stage investor in B2B software companies, togeth... |
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| 12.10.2020 | News on Investments – June 2020 | With our newsletter News on Investments we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 29.04.2020 | Food tech start-up Deliverect raises €16.25 million to expand internationally | Service simplifies online ordering management and fulfilment for restaurants
GHENT, BELGIUM: 29TH April 2020, 9AM BST / 10AM CEST – Deliverect (www.deliverect.com), the Belgian start-up streamlining the restaurant industry with its online ... |
| 09.04.2020 | Startups should not lose heart; fundings won’t dry up completely, assure VCs | - |
| 02.04.2020 | Collibra Raises $112.5M to Help Businesses Make Data-Driven Decisions | ICONIQ Capital, Index Ventures and Durable Capital Partners Lead Latest Round for Data Intelligence Company
NEW YORK and BRUSSELS – April 2, 2020 – Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, today announced $112.5 million in funding at a ... |
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| 16.01.2020 | Herman Kienhuis joins Newion as partner | Investor expands team in line with its growth ambition
AMSTERDAM, 16 January 2020 – Herman Kienhuis (47) has become a partner with Newion, the leading early stage investor in B2B software companies, as of 1 January 2020. Newion wants to fu... |
| 08.01.2020 | Horecaplanner waagt zich op uitzendmarkt | L1nda, dat werkroosters maakt voor ruim 3000 horecabedrijven, gaat ook het personeel voor die diensten leveren. Daarmee gaat het Amsterdamse bedrijf de concurrentie aan met zzp-platform Temper. Opmerkelijk genoeg gaat dochter L1nda Connect ... |
| 21.11.2019 | Newion welcomes new partner John Sjölander to expand the venture capitalist’s success across Europe | AMSTERDAM/STOCKHOLM, November 21, 2019 – John Sjölander (42) has joined Newion, the leading Amsterdam based European investor in B2B software startups, to support the venture capitalist’s growth in the Nordics, DACH and the Benelux. Today N... |
| 06.08.2019 | Amino Acquires Online Video Specialist 24i | 24i enables Amino to broaden and deepen its TV and online video solution portfolio to further its high-growth strategic evolution.
Amino Communications, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, today announced that... |
| 10.07.2019 | Newion is committed to equal opportunities for female founders | Under the name #FundRight, Newion, together with 24 other progressive venture capital investors (VC’s) and TechLeap.NL, is taking a joint initiative that should lead to a more diverse startup ecosystem. We call on other VC’s to commit thems... |
| 19.06.2019 | ValueBlue receives 2 million growth capital from Newion | UTRECHT / AMSTERDAM, June 20, 2019 – ValueBlue, the SaaS supplier that increases its customers’ success by providing insight into relationships between data, IT and business, today announces it has received financing of two million euros fr... |
| 18.06.2019 | APICBASE receives 1.5 million euro from Newion and existing investors | ANTWERP / AMSTERDAM, 19 June 2019 – APICBASE, the international supplier of cloud-based food management software, announces that it has received € 1.5 million in growth capital in an investment round led by Newion. The capital injection wil... |
| 10.12.2018 | News on Investments – December 2018 | With our newsletter News on Investments we keep you informed about us and our portfolio companies.
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| 24.01.2018 | Understanding market demographics | When assessing early stage investment opportunities, market size and market growth are among the most important topics to research. Determining this is extremely important for a general understanding of a certain market. Next up is the mark... |
| 07.09.2017 | Why UX pumps up your valuation! | It’s no secret that recurring revenue results in high valuations. However, I’m increasingly encountering people and companies that do understand the financial side of things, but have decoupled from the underlying dynamics. Let’s give this ... |
| 12.01.2017 | Are You Hitting the Market Window? | Do you know that feeling when everything comes together and works out perfectly nice? That feeling can best be compared to how it feels when a company hits its market window exactly right. As a result, companies thrive and risky VC investme... |
| 03.11.2016 | Understanding reasons for VC rejections – Customer, Traction, Growth, Scaling? | Approximately 1-2% of relevant deal flow for a VC firm will become a portfolio company. Hence, rejecting entrepreneurs is something a VC professional will have to do as part of his job. As most people have an intrinsic urge to be liked, I b... |
| 30.06.2016 | The Art of a good Financial Investment Case Story | The financial side of a VC investment has many different aspects. The basics however go by a pretty clear structure. Being able to get the basics right, makes the investment case story easy and understandable. Use this proposed structure to... |
| 02.05.2016 | Up, Down or Flat – Which Way is the VC Industry Going in 2016? | In Q1 2016 people have massively speculated in all sorts of ways about the state of venture capital in Europe. As a logical result of the recent slowdown in tech funding and slowdown in amount of funds raised in the US. But, what exactly is... |
| 16.02.2016 | Finance Essentials – 3 Must-Knows for SAAS Entrepreneurs | An essential part of businesses is obviously the financials. The thing is however, that a typical visionary entrepreneur is often not a star at doing the financial modelling and key metric analysis needed to assess if a business is venture ... |
| 08.01.2016 | Understanding Reasons for VC Rejections – Are you a Perfect Fit for the VC’s You’re Pitching To? | Approximately 1-2% of relevant deal flow for a VC firm will become a portfolio company. Hence, rejecting entrepreneurs is something a VC professional will have to do as part of his job. As most people have an intrinsic urge to be liked, I b... |
| 31.12.2015 | What General Tech Trend Will Dominate VC Investments in 2016? | Every year it seems as though VC investments or the startups opting for Venture Capital are dominated by one major trend. These trends are horizontal tech trends that influence basically all verticals and hence have an impact on everyone us... |
| 18.11.2015 | Why early stage investors need to adopt ‘The Lean Start-up’ | Not only start-ups but also early stage investors should adopt the lean start-up paradigm. Todays practice; investors take weeks for letting external due diligence teams re-calculate prognoses and stipulate every imperfection in all legal d... |
| 10.08.2015 | Angels and Demons, Venture and Vulture | Yes, I can hear you thinking “Here we go again, bashing everybody else but the nice Venture Capitalists, because the VC’s always got it right”. That would be an easy assumption, however, there is way more nuance to this. To start with the c... |
| 20.05.2015 | The importance of product-market fit. | Entrepreneurs can come up with the most complex and genius products which fail in the market for a number of reasons, and a very simple product become the greatest success. There are several key ingredients for success, for instance momentu... |
| 16.03.2015 | Transparency | It was the Dalai Lama who once said “A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.” But what is the meaning of transparency in the world of VC? And why is it so important?
Let’s sketch a case with entrepreneur ... |
| 10.03.2015 | Crowdfunding and VC | In the old days things were easy. If you had an idea to start a new business, either you funded it yourself, or asked your friends and family to chip in. And after a while, and with the growth of your company, even a bank could provide you ... |
| 22.01.0016 | How to Prepare Before Getting in Touch with a VC | Most people hate preparations, it’s just the same as homework. But before you contact a VC there are some small preparations that will make a big difference. Working for a VC firm, I see numerous new pitch decks and request for contact and ... |
