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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Newion launches Newion IV

Newion is expanding and opens fourth investment fund: 130 million euros to help 20 software startups to market leadership AMSTERDAM, October 5th, 2022 – Newion, a successful venture capital investor targeting early-stage business software companies…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 Angels. The Belgian SaaS company,…

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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 software companies. Robbert Visser (former…

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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 de flexkrachten…

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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 it has…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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