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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.

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