Date | Title | Description |
11.11.2023 | “It’s All About the People”: Welcoming Vlad Loktev, Our Newe... | As a kid growing up in Lithuania, and later Brooklyn, Vlad Loktev wanted to be many things. A sci-fi... |
16.10.2023 | Apron Raises $15m to Free Up Small Businesses and Accountant... | Bogdan Uzbekov, CEO and founder of Apron
Apron’s platform lets business owners and accountants sort... |
30.09.2023 | Candid with Index: In Conversation with Wiz's Assaf Rappapor... | Wiz Co-Founder and CEO, Assaf Rappaport (left) and Index Partner Shardul Shah (right)
Candid with I... |
28.06.2023 | The Rise of Vertical AI | At Index we have been longtime fans of vertical SaaS (vSaaS) – cloud-based software tailor-made for ... |
22.06.2023 | GetHarley raises $52m to connect consumers with world-class ... | Charmaine Chow, CEO and Founder of GetHarley
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By Georgia Stevenson, P... |
24.05.2023 | While Everybody is Talking About GPT, Founders Know that GDR... | Whether it’s the coffee shop down the street, a mobile app on your phone, or software used at work, ... |
24.05.2023 | Tema expands access to innovative investment themes through ... | Maurits Pot, CEO and Founder of Tema
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By Jan Hammer, Partner
Tema’s ... |
20.04.2023 | Game on: short-term slowdown, long-term play | During the Great Depression families and neighbors gathered around Monopoly, which by 1936 was owned... |
13.04.2023 | Covariant Raises $75M in Series C | Covariant Robot at Covariant HQ
Robots are moving from structured environments like car factories t... |
09.02.2023 | Scale AI: Why Data Will Power the AI Revolution | Scale AI Founder & CEO Alex Wang
Scale AI emerged from a fairly small-stakes problem. Alexandr ... |
06.02.2023 | Five Fintech Predictions for 2023 – The Investable Surprises... | Lots of people are throwing their hands up and saying fintech is uninvestable right now. After a yea... |
06.02.2023 | Metrics That Matter – Three Analyses for Startups and Scaleu... | The rallying cry among the tech community in 2022 has been a shift from growth at any cost, to an in... |
18.12.2022 | The Adoption of AI Will Change the Software Value Chain | Image created with Midjourney
And just as we saw SaaS emerge with the rise of Cloud, new business m... |
18.12.2022 | Foundation Models Will Eventually be the Basis of all AI-Pow... | Image created with Midjourney
They will encode the context upon which application-specific decision... |
18.12.2022 | The Adoption of Machine Learning Will Resemble the Adoption ... | Image created with Midjourney
Like databases, every engineer will need to know how to use models, b... |
18.12.2022 | Every Software Application Will Incorporate AI | Image created with Midjourney
And AI-native apps will generally win over AI-retrofit.
Over the pas... |
02.12.2022 | Announcing Index Origin II, a $300 Million Seed Fund Designe... | Artist Owen Gildersleeve has transformed the Index hand icon into an intricate artwork handcrafted i... |
02.12.2022 | By Combining Biotech with AI, Cradle Presents a Highly Compe... | QUICK TAKE
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By Sofia Dolfe, Partner
Biotech has become somewhat of an investment... |
26.11.2022 | Plain Raises $6m to Build API-First Platform That Will Trans... | QUICK TAKE
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Plain was founded in 2020 by CEO Simon Rohrbach, an early employee and form... |
26.11.2022 | Atlar Launches to Build an Operating System That Will Power ... | QUICK TAKE
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By Sofia Dolfe, Partner
Handling payments is the lifeblood of any bu... |
26.11.2022 | Hebbia: Empowering the Knowledge Worker | George Sivulka, Founder and CEO, Hebbia AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been an important area ... |
12.11.2022 | SMB Payments Are Going Vertical | Mercantile founding team
Towards the end of last year, I was at the optometrist for my annual eye e... |
03.11.2022 | The Crypto Dream is Not Dead. We Hope The Delusions Are | "The blockchain has the potential to help shape the future and to power progress and growth–jus... |
29.10.2022 | 10 learnings from the Index Gaming Summit | Index brought together founders and execs of gaming companies from its portfolio and beyond to discu... |
20.10.2022 | Loctax Raises $12m in Series A Funding to Give Companies Ful... | QUICK TAKE
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By Hannah Seal, Partner
There’s little question that tax is one of t... |
20.10.2022 | The Story of Figma: Collaboration, Community and Creativity | I first met Dylan Field when he was a 19-year-old intern, making his mark at Flipboard’s offices in ... |
09.08.2022 | Wiz: Defining a New Kind of Company | Fireside chat between Index Partner Shardul Shah (left) and Wiz Co-Founder and CEO, Assaf Rappaport ... |
03.08.2022 | Footprint Emerges from Stealth to Transform Digital Identity | Index Partner Shardul Shah catches up with Footprint CEO & co-Founder Eli Wachs to discuss the o... |
28.07.2022 | Humanloop launches a suite of tools to help humans ‘teach’ A... | Humanloop co-founder and CEO Raza Habib
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Founded in 2020 by a team of pre... |
22.07.2022 | Vertical Software Wins in Bull and Bear Markets | With many recent forecasts indicating a likely recession ahead, software entrepreneurs and investors... |
21.07.2022 | Fonoa raises $60m to grow its hassle-free global tax complia... | QUICK TAKE
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Innovators like Fonoa are powering the possibility of a borderless gl... |
13.07.2022 | The Garden – a people’s university – launches new learning p... | QUICK TAKE
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By Hannah Seal, Partner
Online learning is exploding, but the option... |
29.06.2022 | To See Your Engineering Team Thrive, First Build Trust | Throughout his career in engineering and leadership Chad Verbowski found empathy to be the most effe... |
28.06.2022 | Pave is Demystifying Compensation for the World’s Workforce... | Talent is a company’s biggest asset. Great leaders have always understood this, and spend the majori... |
28.06.2022 | Sailing in ODD waters | BIT ODD, a gaming company based in Finland, founded by some of the lead creatives behind Supercell’s... |
22.06.2022 | Personio raises $200M in second Series E to drive expansion ... | Personio, Europe’s leading HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced a... |
13.06.2022 | How Startups Should Handle the Downturn | The 2022 crisis represents the third major tech downturn in the Internet era following the Dot-com B... |
31.05.2022 | Welcome, Paris Heymann! | In conjunction with the recent announcement of our NYC office, we are thrilled to welcome our newest... |
05.05.2022 | Index ❤️ NY: Announcing Our New Office | We are thrilled to share that we’re opening an office in New York City.
Index opens an office about... |
25.04.2022 | Rooser: Turbot-charging seafood trading | Rooser co-founders Joel Watt and Erez Mathan with Index's Georgia Stevenson in Peterhead, Scotland.
... |
14.04.2022 | The Infrastructure of Impactful Commerce | Beam co-founders Viveka Hulyalkar (right) and Alex Sadhu (left).
We live in an era of unprecedented... |
12.04.2022 | Montonio raises €11m to improve payment and post-checkout ex... | PRESS RELEASE
Montonio, the all-in-one platform for online merchants to accept payments, offer fina... |
05.04.2022 | Remote secures $300 million Series C financing to power glob... | PRESS RELEASE
Valued at almost $3 billion, Remote is the fastest-growing employer of record company... |
05.04.2022 | The Data Caching Easy Button: Our Investment In ReadySet | Getting your teeth cleaned. A trip to the DMV. Doing your taxes. Data Caching.
Painful, yet unavoid... |
30.03.2022 | Cash App: from Bank to Pop Star | Cash App is wildly underestimated by the market. It's disrupting the $1T banking industry, well-posi... |
29.03.2022 | Sourceful secures $20m Series A round to scale platform help... | Sourceful, the all-in-one platform for sustainable sourcing, has secured a $20 million Series A fund... |
22.03.2022 | Capitolis Raises $110 Million in Series D to Turbo-Charge It... | Capitolis, the technology company reimagining capital markets, today announced it has raised a $110 ... |
16.03.2022 | Unlocking the Power of Video with Twelve Labs | The Twelve Labs Team
I was sitting at a little coffee shop in the Outer Sunset when the table next ... |
16.03.2022 | Doubling Down on Linktree | Linktree founders (from left to right): Nicky Humphreys, Alex Zaccaria, and Anthony Zaccaria
We are... |
10.03.2022 | Tactic, the AI startup that automates customer and market re... | PRESS RELEASE
Tactic, the start-up that uses machine learning to automate the compilation of custom... |
09.03.2022 | Engineering the Future of Transportation | Yanbing Li, Senior VP of Engineering at Aurora
Even when she was a little girl growing up in China,... |
09.03.2022 | Workbounce raises $2.7 million from Index Ventures to build ... | PRESS RELEASE
Workbounce – a search, collaboration and analytics platform for B2B salespeople that ... |
08.03.2022 | Doubling Down on Data: Our Series A Investment in Xata | Monica Sarbu, CEO and founder of Xata
I met Monica almost exactly a year ago, and from that very fi... |
23.02.2022 | A Transformational Moment in Gaming | Backbone founder and CEO Maneet Khaira
The phones that most consumers carry are well equipped for h... |
16.02.2022 | Everything is a Workflow: Our Investment in Temporal | Whether it’s the way you make your morning coffee, the process you follow to close out a JIRA ticket... |
09.02.2022 | GOAT: The Journey of a Sneaker-head | GREATEST Magazine Issue 05
In 1990, when Daishin Sugano was ten years old, Nike debuted a pair of s... |
31.01.2022 | Creating Data Masterpieces: Our Investment in Deepnote | It is no secret that data is going through a renaissance. Once the closely held competitive advantag... |
27.01.2022 | Cowboy raises $80m to further accelerate the adoption of cyc... | Electric bike designer Cowboy today announces an $80 million Series C financing milestone. The round... |
25.01.2022 | Sylvera Raises $32M to Become Source of Truth in Carbon Mark... | Co-founders Samuel Gill and Allister Furey. Sylvera's Multi-Scale Lidar team uses machine learning, ... |
24.01.2022 | Why The Tech Sell-Off Is Going To Bring Back BigTech M&A | Over the past two years, the market for IPOs has been so strong that most entrepreneurs have shied a... |
18.01.2022 | Dream Games: Entertaining the World | Games have delighted people of all ages, genders and geographies for millennia. From chess and other... |
13.01.2022 | How ClickHouse, Inc. Is Building a Best-in-Class Engineering... | Yury Izrailevsky has always been on the forefront of what’s next in tech. In 2002, that was working ... |
10.01.2022 | Ankorstore - the fastest growing European B2B marketplace re... | Only two years after its successful launch, Ankorstore, the wholesale marketplace gathering 200,000 ... |
21.12.2021 | REGISTER TODAY: Index Ventures AI Summit: 2022 [and beyond] | Save your virtual seat, today!
Save your seat today for the Index Ventures AI Summit. Throughout th... |
06.12.2021 | Fintech In the Metaverse & More -- Five Predictions for ... | Photo credit: The Daily Hodl
You could argue 2021 was the year of fintech, from the meme stock craz... |
30.11.2021 | The Next Step of the Restaurant Industry’s “Ecommerce Moment... | The Pepper team
I'm excited to announce our investment in Pepper, the ecommerce platform for food s... |
30.11.2021 | Jump raises €4 million to bring security and freedom to free... | Paris, France 30th November 2021 – Jump has raised €4 million in seed funding to advance its mission... |
29.11.2021 | Motorway hits unicorn status with $190m Series C | CEO and co-founder of Motorway Tom Leathes
Press release
Motorway, the UK’s fastest growing used c... |
22.11.2021 | Fonoa raises $25 million to expand its global tax automation... | Fonoa, the API-first global tax automation provider for the internet economy, has raised $25 million... |
09.11.2021 | Collibra Raises $250 Million in Funding, More than Doubling ... | Felix Van de Maele, Collibra founder and CEO
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, today announc... |
03.11.2021 | Building a Better Metaverse with Gather | Gather's co-founders in the Gather virtual office
We're becoming a digital species. Perhaps we've a... |
29.10.2021 | Index Creator Summit: The Past & Present Renaissance | From the way we produce and consume culture, to how we live and work, a fresh generation of business... |
28.10.2021 | Index Creator Summit: Why is everyone talking about creators... | From the way we produce and consume culture, to how we live and work, a fresh generation of business... |
20.10.2021 | Resistant AI Announces $16.6m Funding to Protect Financial A... | Martin Rehak, Resistant AI CEO and co-founder
Prague, Czech Republic (October 20, 2021) — Resistant... |
13.10.2021 | Creator Manifesto | "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo, created at the height of the Renaissance in 1512
... |
12.10.2021 | BRINC: Building Technology To Save Lives | BRINC Founder & CEO Blake Resnick
When we had our first call with Blake Resnick, founder and CE... |
11.10.2021 | Swile raises $200 million and reaches unicorn status | Commenting on the news, Martin Mignot, who led the investment for Index, said: "As remote work ... |
11.10.2021 | Index Creator Summit | From the way we produce and consume culture, to how we live and work, a fresh generation of business... |
06.10.2021 | Cord raises $17.5m to add social, multiplayer collaboration ... | Cord, the platform that helps tools and apps become more interactive, engaging and multiplayer, has ... |
30.09.2021 | incident.io raises $4.7 million to bring world-class inciden... | incident.io, the platform that helps organisations coordinate, communicate and learn from issues tha... |
29.09.2021 | Employee Leave Made Easy: Cocoon Powers Seamless Transitions... | Cocoon co-founders Amber Feng (left), Mahima Chawla (center), and Lauren Dai (right)
When my wife a... |
20.09.2021 | Xata raises $5m to build the next-generation database for se... | Xata.io, a pioneering database service that allows everyone to build and scale serverless apps, has ... |
20.09.2021 | ClickHouse: From Russia with Love | ClickHouse, Inc. founders: Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov and Yury Izrailevsky
Our road to ClickHouse... |
16.09.2021 | Beyond the Resume: Announcing our $50M Series C in CodeSigna... | Index Ventures Partner Nina Achadjian (left) with CodeSignal CEO and co-founder Tigran Sloyan (right... |
15.09.2021 | Sourceful raises $12.2 million to help businesses slash the ... | Sourceful, the platform that uses data to enable companies to source and manage eco-friendly product... |
15.09.2021 | Index launches OptionPlan Seed – the free app to help all se... | We are launching OptionPlan Seed to help founders design competitive stock option plans for employee... |
09.09.2021 | Slack’s Cal Henderson: The Engineering Leader | Cal Henderson, the CTO and co-founder of Slack
Cal Henderson, the CTO and co-founder of Slack, clai... |
08.09.2021 | BEAUTY PIE raises $100m in Series B funding round | Founder of Beauty Pie Marcia Kilgore
BEAUTY PIE, the first luxury beauty buyers’ club, today announ... |
26.08.2021 | Taktile Raises $4.7m Funding led by Index Ventures to Accele... | Taktile, a technology platform used by financial services companies to deploy machine learning appli... |
06.08.2021 | Robinhood’s IPO Marks a Sea Change in Finance | Robinhood co-founders Baiju and Vlad in conversation with Index's Jan Hammer
How many of you carry ... |
04.08.2021 | Catching up with Lenny Rachitsky | Index Partner, Nina Achadjian catches up with Lenny Rachitsky
After 7 years at Airbnb, Lenny gave h... |
29.07.2021 | Congrats to Robinhood on Today's IPO! | As Robinhood becomes a public company, Index partner Jan Hammer highlights what he sees as its defin... |
26.07.2021 | Catching up with Sproutl | Index Partner, Danny Rimer catches up with Sproutl CEO, Anni Noel-Johnson.
Sproutl opens up gardeni... |
22.07.2021 | Index Raises $3.1 Billion to Support New Wave of Founders, E... | An artistic take on our logo. We chose the hand as our mark symbolizing the humility, care and effor... |
15.07.2021 | Candid with Index: In Conversation with Aurora's Chris Urmso... | Chris Urmson, CEO & Co-founder of Aurora (left) with Mike Volpi, Partner at Index Ventures (righ... |
15.07.2021 | Five Success Secrets from the Only Independent Company in Se... | Self-driving leader Aurora, the "driver" of the driverless car, is planning to go public v... |
01.07.2021 | Rohlik Group successfully raises €100 million, the new fundi... | Rohlik Group ("Rohlik"), one of Europe’s leading online grocery delivery businesses with r... |
01.07.2021 | Codat raises $40M and expands its API infrastructure for SME... | Codat, the technology company that enables small businesses to seamlessly share business and financi... |
24.06.2021 | Confluent’s Graduation Day | The Confluent team
The somewhat dilapidated business suite next to a dentist’s office that was home... |
17.06.2021 | Transform Data: From Oil To Electricity | One of the most overused terms in technology is that data is the new oil. It’s one of those buzzword... |