D2 invests in B2B start-ups solving technical challenges. We look for durable business models and believe a strong focus on capital efficiency radically improves the odds of success for founders and investors.
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🎙️ In the latest episode of Fully Vested we caught up with Josh Payne. Josh founded product discovery platform StackCommerce and took it to $80M in revenue off $1M in investment 🤯 These days he’s at it again, with his new company Onward tripling to $6M in ARR this year already. We dive deep on Josh’s experience scaling software companies, his work with OpenSky Ventures and why ‘seed strapping’ a startup might be the best of both worlds. https://lnkd.in/eKS-Jwuz
Moxso is joining the D2 portfolio 🎉 We're looking forward to working with and supporting the team as they take the business to the next level! Big congratulations to Rune Boye Knudsen, Mikkel Lindblom, and the whole team on pulling this round together.
🚀 Thrilled to announce that we at Moxso have successfully closed our first funding round, marking an incredible milestone for our team! This €1.5m investment will drive our growth and fuel innovation in human-layered cybersecurity as we dive into the next exciting chapter of our journey. We're beyond excited to share this adventure with our amazing investors at Ugly Duckling Ventures (Andreas Green Rasmussen ), D2 Fund (Joshua Minsk ), Mads Møller , Jens Karstoft , and Oliver Kofoed Pedersen! But what truly fires me up is the chance to do all this alongside the phenomenal Moxso team. Starting and growing a company with your partner in crime (almost) since birth is a privilege I don’t take lightly—huge shoutout to Mikkel Lindblom . And to the rest of the Moxso crew, your dedication and passion are what make this all possible. Massive thanks to Ahmad Abd El-Hafiz, Caroline Jespersen, Emilie Hartmann , Frederik Kristoffersen , Jens Zetner Nielsen , Mike B. , Mikkel Guldborg , Oliver Kieffer Zurak, Sami Akhtar , Tille Eshøj Østerby , and Viktor Paustian Madsen . And hey, if you’re curious about what we’re building, ItWatch wrote a piece about Moxso (in danish) —definitely worth a read (see comments)
Congratulations to Chris Green, Daniel Secretan, Shaun O'Mahony and the whole Xapien team on their successful Series A round! A well deserved milestone following a sustained period of stellar execution 🙌
We're disrupting the billion-dollar compliance market and we’ve just raised £8M in Series A funding to continue doing it 🎉. The risk and compliance space hasn’t quite seen a transformation like this since the release of database companies in the 90s, and the world has certainly moved on since then. Databases can’t answer the questions businesses today need to know about their third parties, but Xapien’s AI technology can. Read more about what this investment means for us in The Times: https://lnkd.in/d-WxyhGJ #amlcompliance #financialcrime #duediligence #technews #xapienthem
Delphi Labs is joining Cube! David Jayatillake and Michael Irvine have built some incredibly powerful technology over the past year, and we can't imagine a better home for it. With Cube, this move will help many of the largest companies in the world interact with their data like never before. Huge congrats and thanks to David and Michael, and good luck for the next phase of your journey!
Exciting news! We're investing into Cube's AI-driven future as the Delphi Labs team comes on board full-time. Check out the big announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gXH27r2z #AI #BigNews #SemanticLayer
Announcing our investment into OctaiPipe 🎉 Octaipipe have created the first commercially viable Federated ML solution for critical infrastructure operators. Their suite of tools facilitate ML faster, reduce networking costs by orders of magnitude, and take a privacy-first data approach. Huge congrats to the founders; Eric Topham, Ivan Scattergood, and George Hancock on everything they've achieved so far. We're looking forward to supporting them as they take their business to the next level!
Exciting news! Today we announce that we have secured £3M in pre-Series A funding, plus a £500K grant of non-equity funding 🎉 This investment will enable us to further accelerate the development of our Federated Learning platform and meet growing customer demand across critical industries including Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, and Telecoms. And the good news doesn’t stop there. We’re thrilled to welcome Arnaud Lagarde to the team who joins us as our Chief Revenue Officer to lead Octaipipe’s commercial development. We would also like to say a very big thank you to our investors SuperSeed, Forward Partners, D2 Fund, Atlas Ventures, Martlet Capital, Gelecek Etki Fonu and Deeptech Labs for backing the next stage of our journey. You can read the full details below ⬇️