| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.08.2024 | European, SWANA startups power through slowdown in Ed-tech funding | After record growth, Ed-tech sector slows down - but not worldwide
Following the pandemic-driven surge in the Ed-tech sector, enthusiasm for education technology has waned. After $20.8 billion was raised in 2021 and $10.6 billion in 2022,... |
| 18.04.2024 | HealthSage AI Revolutionizes Healthcare with €3M Seed Investment | Amsterdam-based HealthSage AI has secured a €3 million seed investment to enhance its open generative AI platform dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery. Led by Peak and supported by Healthy Capital, Rubio Impact Ventures, and health... |
| 17.04.2024 | HealthSage secures €3M Seed investment for open source AI healthcare platform | HealthSage has raised € 3 million Seed investment to enhance and scale its open generative AI platform, which is fully dedicated to healthcare.
Beyond reducing the administrative burden for healthcare professionals (up to 40 per cent of the... |
| 16.04.2024 | Amsterdam’s HealthSage AI secures €3M to expand healthcare-centric open generative AI platform | Read this article in:
Amsterdam-based HealthSage AI, an open platform for generative AI in healthcare, has secured a €3M seed funding to expand and scale its open platform.
The oversubscribed round was led by Peak, alongside investments fro... |
| 13.12.2023 | Amsterdam’s AI-focused VC firm Curiosity secures funding from Eu.vc: Know more | Read this article in:
Amsterdam-based Curiosity, a VC firm focused on European early-stage investments in AI-driven B2B software companies, has secured fresh funding from London-based Eu.vc.
Eu.vc’s goal is to establish a vibrant and exclus... |
| 23.08.2023 | DREM plans to pump up the volume of heat pumps in Europe with €2M investment | Swedish heat pump platform DREM has gone and bagged another €2 million as Peak has come up trumps with the fuel to fund a European expansion.
Already hitting a sweet spot in the Swedish market as it heats up with the availability of a grant... |
| 14.06.2023 | Belgium's Enersee does a rebrand, raises €1.2 million and uses AI to decarbonise offices, hospitals and industrial buildings | Enersee, the Belgian energy management software start-up formerly known as Eneos, has raised €1.2 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Peak.
Founded in 2020 by Maarten Van de Vijver and Joachim Vleminckx, it is targeting large real... |
| 25.04.2023 | Belgium's Whale raises €2.5 million to solve ‘leaky bucket syndrome’ issues in growing businesses | The Ghent-based start-up Whale has raised €2.5 million for its knowledge sharing and employee SaaS platform. Funds raised will fuel the growth of the platform - and its recent AI integration - in Europe and throughout the US, while scaling ... |
| 14.04.2023 | Czech RockawayX participated in a $3.3M round for fintech Helio | Czech RockawayX participated in a $3.3M round for fintech Helio
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Helio has raised $3.3 million in a seed round... |
| 13.04.2023 | London-based fintech Helio raises $3.3 million to bring Web3 payments mainstream | London-based Web3 payments platform Helio has raised a $3.3 million Seed funding round to grow its sales and marketing teams and develop more partnerships with platforms and marketplaces.
The round is led by Peak and Lightspeed Faction, and... |
| 01.03.2023 | Speedinvest leads €2M round for konfetti, a German startup | Speedinvest leads €2M round for konfetti, a German startup
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Austrian VC fund Speedinvest has announced ... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 21.02.2023 | CarbonCloud raises €7.5 million to bring clarity on climate risks to food industry supply chains | Gothenburg, Sweden-based climate SaaS company CarbonCloud has received €7.5 million in a series A round co-led by Cusp Capital and Peak, joined by its existing investors TS Ventures and Maki VC.
Founded in 2019, CarbonCloud's climate intell... |
| 21.02.2023 | Maki.vc invests in CarbonCloud during a €7.5M Series A round | Maki.vc invests in CarbonCloud during a €7.5M Series A round
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| 17.02.2023 | CarbonCloud raises €7.5 million to bring clarity on climate risks to food industry supply chains | Gothenburg, Sweden-based climate SaaS company CarbonCloud has received €7.5 million in a series A round co-led by Cusp Capital and Peak, joined by its existing investors TS Ventures and Maki VC.
Founded in 2019, CarbonCloud's climate intell... |
| 10.01.2023 | Amsterdam’s Creative Fabrica bags €56.8M for its AI platform for the craft, design market | Amsterdam-based Creative Fabrica, a marketplace for fonts, graphics, crafts designs, and premium content for crafters, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $61M (approximately €56.85M) in a fresh round of funding.
With this round, the co... |
| 14.12.2022 | Peak and La Famiglia lead Berlin family fintech Bling's €3.5 million raise | Bling, a Berlin-based startup billing its debut as Europe's first ever family-oriented fintech, has secured €3.5 million in funds led by the pan-European SaaS-focused VC Peak and VC fund La Famiglia.
This past summer the startup launched it... |
| 01.12.2022 | Amsterdam’s Peak launches 5th fund at €150M; to invest in 50 early-stage companies | Amsterdam-based Peak, an early-stage venture capital fund, announced on Thursday that it has launched its fifth Seed fund at €150M to invest in early-stage SaaS, marketplace, and platform founders across Europe.
The Dutch VC has raised over... |
| 23.11.2022 | Faircado banks €500,000 to make second-hand shopping as easy as Amazon | Berlin's Faircado just generated a €500,000 cash intake to build out its AI-driven browser extension for finding second-hand bargains.
Faircado's software aims to compare like-for-like items in a given category, for example resellers of ele... |
| 07.09.2022 | Multiplayer Browser – Stack Browser announces selling lifetime licenses as NFTs | Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Multiplayer browser for Collaboration – Stack Browser, is planning to sell lifetime licenses of its subscription as Non-fungible tokens. With this announcement, Stack Browser is becoming one of the first SaaS to... |
| 04.07.2022 | In the day and age of ‘Do we even need an office?’, Munich’s Seatti secures €3 million | Munich-based Seatti has raised €3 million in a seed funding round. The hybrid work management tool has taken on the additional investment to meet strong enterprise client demand, one that they say will require a tripling of the current team... |
| 12.05.2022 | Amsterdam-based skills management software platform AG5 secures €1.2M from Peak to close the skills gap | Amsterdam-based AG5, a skills management company that helps organisations map employees and their skills for efficient scheduling, timely training, and compliance management, announced on Thursday that it has raised €1.2M in its latest roun... |
| 22.04.2022 | Beyond Money: Worauf sollten Startups bei der Auswahl von VCs heute achten? | Für Gründer:innen war es noch nie so einfach an enorme Summen Kapital zu kommen. Die Anzahl und auch die Höhe von Investitionen in deutsche Startups steigt und steigt. Das bedeutet unter anderem: Es gibt eine Verschiebung im Machtverhältnis... |
| 01.02.2022 | Dutch-based Channable raises €55M from Partech, Amsterdam’s Peak, others | Netherlands-based e-commerce feed management and PPC automation solution for digital marketers, brands and online retailers, Channable, announced on Tuesday that it has raised over €55M in a Series B round of funding led by Partech along wi... |
| 31.01.2022 | Berlin’s Tilo raises seed round to tackle unstructured data sets with a serverless platform | As is commonly the case, data sets used inside companies almost always come from diverse sources and in different, unstructured formats. Connecting them up can lead to a very large headache. But if it can be done, there are all sorts of ben... |
| 11.01.2022 | Was VCs von Gründer:innen bei der Ansprache erwarten | Peak erhält pro Jahr über 1.500 E-Mails und Nachrichten von Gründer:innen, die ein Investment suchen. Von denen kommt aber nur ein Bruchteil in die nächste Runde, denn der Großteil der Start-ups scheitert bereits bei der ersten Vorstellung ... |
| 04.08.2021 | Helping sales teams close more deals, bao raises €2.5 million in seed funding | Conversational intelligence platform bao (be-as-one) has raised €2.5 million in a seed round. The Munich-based service aims to help sales teams engage prospects in better conversations, resulting in higher conversions and more closed deals.... |
| 29.07.2021 | “Mir macht es Spaß, Gründern dabei zu helfen, erfolgreicher zu sein” | Der niederländische Early-Stage-Geldgeber Peak möchte verstärkt in Deutschland investieren und eröffnete dazu kürzlich ein Büro in Berlin. “Es ist das erste internationale Büro für Peak und eine bewusste Entscheidung für Deutschland, um ein... |
| 22.07.2021 | Content management platform GraphCMS raises $10 million, liberates siloed data | Addressing a key challenge in data-driven industries, effective data extraction from third-party systems, Berlin-based GraphCMS has raised $10 million in a new funding round. The startups’ solution cuts out the middleware and connects siloe... |
| 29.06.2021 | Traditionally Benelux focused, Peak enters German market with €66 million fund | Amsterdam-based Peak is branching out beyond its traditional Benelux region focus with a €66 million fund that specifically focuses on German startups. Seeking to form a bridge between two of Europe’s booming startup hubs, Berlin and Amster... |
| 29.06.2021 | Peak launches in Germany, with €66 million fund for marketplace, platform and SaaS companies | Stefan Bary (Managing Partner), Heleen Dura (Founding Partner), Johan van Mil (Co-Founder und Managing Partner)
Today Amsterdam-based VC Peak officially enters the German market and pushes its fourth fund, this time of €66 million, for 30 m... |
| 14.04.2021 | Amsterdam-based social meeting platform Mibo raises €1 million in round led by Peak Capital | Dutch social meeting platform Mibo has raised €1 million in a fresh funding round led by Amsterdam-based Peak Capital.
The company is reporting that the new capital will be used to further develop the platform, fuel international growth, an... |
| 14.04.2021 | Virtual social meeting platform Mibo secures €1 million in seed funding | Mibo, an Amsterdam (Netherlands) based startup, announced on 14th April 2021 that it has raised €1 million in its seed funding round. The round was led by Netherlands’ Peak Capital. |
| 21.03.2021 | Belgian startup Whale lands € 1 million to help SME deliver better employee onboarding and training | Whale, the knowledge and training platform for SMEs, raises EUR 1 million from Volta Ventures, Peak Capital, and the founding team. Founded by Bram Billiet and Gary Vanbutsele, Whale is on a mission to create the connected knowledge and tra... |
| 16.03.2021 | Whale raises €1 million in funding | Belgium-based knowledge and training platform for SMEs, Whale, has bagged €1 million in funding from Volta Ventures, Peak Capital, and the founding team. |
| 27.01.2021 | Amsterdam-based Peak Capital leads €1.8M funding round in this Swedish startup; fund’s first investment in Nordics | Goteborg, Sweden-based digital contracting platform, Precisely, has raised €1.8M in a fresh round of funding led by Amsterdam-based venture capital fund Peak Capital. This investment in Precisely, marks the fund’s first investment in the No... |
| 21.01.2021 | Creative Fabrica, a platform for digital crafting resources, lands $7 million Series A | Roemie Hillenaar and Anca Stefan, the co-founders of Creative Fabrica. Image Credits: Creative Fabrica
Creative Fabrica is best known as a marketplace for digital files, like fonts, graphics and machine embroidery designs, created for craft... |
| 21.12.2020 | Why we invested in Open Social | Auke van den Hout (Nimbus Ventures) and Johan van Mil (Peak Capital) explain why they’re excited about this opportunity. Key topics are: cash addiction and the difficulty of “SaaSification”, the commercialization of open source tech, and te... |
| 09.10.2020 | EU-Startups Podcast / Episode 7: European Investors pitching their VC firm/focus to you | For the 7th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European venture capital investors to come on air and to pitch their VC firm and investment focus. For further information, the links to those firms can be found in the show notes be... |
| 07.05.2020 | Tech.eu Podcast: How to raise capital in times of crisis? Let’s hear from VCs | Welcome to a new series of special episodes of Tech.eu Podcast, made in collaboration with The Next Web. Over three shows, we’ll talk to VCs, governmental organisations, and startups about the changes in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in tim... |
| 04.05.2020 | GraphCMS, content distribution software, adds €2.5 million to its seed round | German startup GraphCMS GmbH, whose product allows companies to distribute omni-channel content at scale, has announced a seed extension round of €2.5 million. The round was led by Peak Capital, with GraphCMS being their first investment in... |
| 11.12.2019 | These 6 investors in Amsterdam have contributed to making the city a leading tech startup hub in 2019 | It is widely known that Amsterdam is home for many fast-growing startups and a slew of unicorns such as Takeaway.com, WeTransfer, Booking.com, and many others. Notably, all these are global players in their own fields. Also, Amsterdam has m... |
| 13.11.2019 | Dutch startup LessonUp receives €350K capital injection from Peak Capital | The Dutch venture capitalist, Peak Capital, which has made investments in popular startups like Catawiki, Channable and Dyme has recently also invested €350,000 in a tech company from The Hague.
Known as LessonUp, this one has rapidly grown... |
| 19.08.2019 | Amsterdam’s Peak Capital opens applications for its 2nd Fundathon, where founders of European startups can win €100k in one day | Amsterdam-based investment fund Peak Capital is opening applications for its second Fundathon. Starting today, startups can register until 8 September for a competition on 4 October, where five startups will participate. At the end of the d... |
| 15.08.2019 | Fond de investiții de 66 milioane Euro pentru firme IT | Startup-uri IT din Europa, inclusiv românești, vor putea obține finanțări dintr-un nou fond de investiții, de 66 de milioane de euro în total, lansat joi de o companie de capital de risc olandeză.
Firma de investiții Peak Capital, cu sediul... |
| 15.08.2019 | Peak Capital makes “A Jump to New Heights” with its fourth fund of €66 million and a new partner | Peak Capital launches its fourth fund with €66 million in committed capital and strengthens its team with Jacqueline van den Ende, formerly of HAL Investments and Rocket Internet. The new fund dubbed “A Jump to New Heights” aims to invest i... |
| 15.08.2019 | Amsterdam-based VC firm Peak Capital launches €66M fund, focuses on European marketplace, platform and SaaS startups | Recently, Peak Capital, an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm, is launching its fourth fund with €66 million committed capital. Furthermore, the company strengthens its team with Jacqueline van den Ende, former HAL Investments and Rocket ... |
| 15.08.2019 | Amsterdam’s Peak Capital launches new €66 million fund to invest in 20 fast-growing European marketplace, platform and SaaS companies | After the success of its three previous funds, Peak Capital launches its fourth fund with €66 million committed capital. The new fund aims to invest in 20 fast-growing European marketplace, platform and SaaS companies.
Peak Capital also str... |
| 09.10.2017 | The latest news on Dutch startup investment rounds: InvoiceFinance, VanMoof, and VIBES.technology (week #41) | Fintech startup InvoiceFinance, the innovative Dutch city bike brand VanMoof and VIBES.technology have closed big investment rounds to accelerate their growth. While InvoiceFinance has landed an investment of 6 million euros to become the m... |
| 05.10.2017 | Dutch fintech company InvoiceFinance raises €6 million in funding | InvoiceFinance, a fintech startup based in Amsterdam, has raised €6 million from Peak Capital.
Entrepreneurs are often left waiting long periods of time to get their invoices paid, explained CEO Sven van der Biezen. The company offers credi... |
| 28.06.2017 | Why I’ve created nlfunding.co, a directory of every Dutch investor out there | Finding a follow-up investment for your startup is a hell of a job. Juriaan Karsten, now co-founder and COO of Parkeagle, can tell you all about it. In the end, he had to shut down his ‘baby’: the promising social app Grader, due to lack of... |
| 06.01.2017 | Channable Raises €750K in Funding | Channable, a Utrecht, The Netherlands-based feed management startup, raised €750k in funding.
Peak Capital made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to grow faster in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and Switze... |
| 05.10.2016 | Majority of startups struggle with financing growth | While the local startup scene is still on a high from the successful second edition of Amsterdam Capital Week, some worrisome news has now come out of the event. During the event, Dutch fintech startup InvoiceFinance did research among a hu... |
| 08.06.2016 | Dutch fintech startup InvoiceFinance secures €3.4 million in new round of funding | Dutch fintech startup InvoiceFinance has raised €3.4 million in funding from Peak Capital and fintech entrepreneur Kalo Bagijn.
The startup provides an online marketplace for SMEs to have their outstanding invoices financed by professional ... |
| 08.06.2016 | Fintech startup InvoiceFinance secures €3,4 million in fresh funding | Fintech startup InvoiceFinance raised €3,4 million in fresh funding. The Dutch startup, based in Den Bosch, finances outstanding invoices for small and medium sized companies, allowing them to receive their money faster. New investors are P... |
| - | Content management platform GraphCMS raises $10 million, liberates siloed data | Addressing a key challenge in data-driven industries, effective data extraction from third-party systems, Berlin-based GraphCMS has raised $10 million in a new funding round. The startups’ solution cuts out the middleware and connects siloe... |
| - | A 24-year-old VC associate breaks down what it's like to work in venture capital: 'Our business model is to make piles of money into bigger piles of money' | Madeline Lawrence opened her fund's first international office in Berlin. Peak Capital This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Madeline Lawrence is an associate at the Dutch ventu... |
| - | Stockholm’s youth sports management social platform Heja scores $4.2 million, goes for the gold | Stockholm-based youth sports coaches, managers, parents, and players communications platform Heja has scored $4.2 million in a seed round led by Peak Capital. The play saw existing roster investors Luminar Ventures, Bonnier Ventures, Inbox ... |
| - | Hybrid office management platform Seatti raises €500,000 in pre-seed funding | Looking to help a new generation of hybrid companies maximise in-person collaborations and minimise office and admin costs, Seatti has secured €500,000 in pre-seed funding via Peak, HPI Seed Fund, and angel investor Dr. Ralph Mueller. The c... |
| - | Amsterdam-based social meeting platform Mibo raises €1 million in round led by Peak Capital | Dutch social meeting platform Mibo has raised €1 million in a fresh funding round led by Amsterdam-based Peak Capital.
The company is reporting that the new capital will be used to further develop the platform, fuel international growth, an... |
| - | 10 rising-star consumer companies that VCs say are the ones to watch | Prose; Charlotte; Nutrafol; Our Place; Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Each startup on this list has raised $90 million or less in VC funding.
VCs a... |
| - | Former EQT and Bambora exec Indra Sharma joins Peak, opens Stockholm office | VC firm Peak has been on a roll as of late. Earlier this summer, the traditionally Benelux region-focused fund announced its plans to get down with the German market, and now, seasoned investor Indra Sharma has been appointed to the positio... |
| - | In the day and age of ‘Do we even need an office?’, Munich’s Seatti secures €3 million | Munich-based Seatti has raised €3 million in a seed funding round. The hybrid work management tool has taken on the additional investment to meet strong enterprise client demand, one that they say will require a tripling of the current team... |
| - | Helping sales teams close more deals, bao raises €2.5 million in seed funding | Conversational intelligence platform bao (be-as-one) has raised €2.5 million in a seed round. The Munich-based service aims to help sales teams engage prospects in better conversations, resulting in higher conversions and more closed deals.... |
| - | Traditionally Benelux focused, Peak enters German market with €66 million fund | Amsterdam-based Peak is branching out beyond its traditional Benelux region focus with a €66 million fund that specifically focuses on German startups. Seeking to form a bridge between two of Europe’s booming startup hubs, Berlin and Amster... |
