1

min read

Patrik Backman

General Partner

Booksy raises $70m war chest

We are excited to announce that we are a part of Booksy’s $70m Series C funding round, lead by Cat Rock Capital. This is one of the largest C rounds ever raised by a startup from Poland.

Booksy developed a simple mobile management system for health and beauty service professionals. Today Booksy serves over 13m consumers, which is a >25x increase since our initial investment!

Booksy is recognized as one of the fastest scaling US companies in the Marketplace Index 2020 by Andreessen Horowitz, and they’re just getting started.

We are proud to be a part of a global success story in the making.

You can read more about Booksy and the funding round from TechCrunch.

‍

Our Investment Into Droppe

Hygraph Raises $30M Series B Funding Round for Federated Content Platform

Our newest investment into cybersecurity: Binalyze

OpenOcean’s investment in Hygraph

News from our network

What founders get wrong about speed and scale

What founders get wrong about speed and scale

Every founder faces the same question: how fast should you go? In conversation with our Venture Partner, Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana, we explored why so many startups struggle to balance speed, quality and scale, and how to get it right (at least most of the time). As Dups puts it, for every rule there is an exception, and for every exception there is something to learn.

Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana

Venture Partner

Quantum computing in Europe: lessons from IQM and OpenOcean

Quantum computing in Europe: lessons from IQM and OpenOcean

When we met Jan Goetz, Professor Mikko Möttönen and the rest of the IQM founding team in late 2018, we knew we were seeing something rare. The science was hard to grasp, even for my colleague Patrik Backman, who had studied physics and some quantum theory, but the ambition was unmistakable.

General Partner

The state of agentic AI in 2025: what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next

The state of agentic AI in 2025: what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s next

At the start of the year, “2025: The Year of Agents” sounded like headline bait. Eight months in, it feels like an understatement. Sam Altman said agents would “join the workforce” in 2025. Satya Nadella expects them to replace segments of knowledge work. Marc Benioff wants Salesforce to be the “#1 provider of digital labour.” That’s not future tense anymore - today, agents are moving tickets, shipping code, and digesting documents.

Investment Associate