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Robin Capital — the Germany - ground , solo GP - conduct VC investment trust by former enterpriser Robin Haak — has rack up its final close of “ Robin Fund One ” at € 13 million . Combined with its additional growth - focused investment funds vehicle of € 2 million , the investment company now has a total of € 15 million to play with . In the kingdom of European solo GPs , who typically raise a peck less than their U.S. equivalents , this is a decent figure .
Launched in 2023 , Robin Capital is aimed at European B2B midmarket initiative SaaS startups , focusing on the DACH neighborhood , at the pre - seed and seed stages . It ’s deploy across sectors such as HR , AI , fintech , climate , DevOps , robotics , and industrial technical school .
Some 28 companies are now in the portfolio , and one-half of the fund has already been deployed into companies such asKombo Dev(Germany ) andPhacet Labs(France ) .
Robin was founded in December 2022 by Haak , a former atomic number 27 - founder of Jobspotting ( acquired by SmartRecruiters Inc. out of San Francisco in 2017 ) , who put the first confirmation into German neobank N26 .
Haak ’s fund has 70 circumscribed partners , and includes GPs from private equity and speculation majuscule firms , as well as founder and operator .
He has also managed to rope in some speculation partners , including Renaud Visage , former CTO of Eventbrite and current father of Slate . VC ; Jerome Ternynck , founder of SmartRecruiters and the Rypples VC ; and Lea Vajnorsky , co - founder of Wo\men Inc.
Speaking to TechCrunch , Haak said it had been quite a difficult environment to bring up the investment company in .
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“ These one and a one-half eld were probably the toughest clock time in venture , in story , due to the macroeconomics . I do n’t have institutions in the fund , I do n’t even have the EIF . ”
However , he call up the reward has been experience a wide internet to draw on : “ The LP base I have today are 70 hoi polloi , and all of them are master . … The dependable part now is it ’s an awesome value - minimal brain damage biotic community . ”
Robin Capital link the movement of other solo GPs in Europe , many of whom have previously hold roles as monetary fund married person , entrepreneur , startup wheeler dealer , or content creator ( read : podcaster ) .
While solo GPs can sometimes make faster decision compared to full - blown , multipartner funds , they typically go more like angels on steroid . But it can also mean faster entree to their web , expertness , and interview , especially in the display case of Almighty who have modernize a personal sword .
Hypernova , a $ 25 million fund of fund , soft - launch in 2022to invest in solo GPs in Europe .
TechCrunch has identified 28 “ solo ” GP VCs launched in Europe over the last duo of years , although one or two ( like 20VC and Unruly Capital ) are now large enough to have convey in other mate and are slowly snuff it the “ solo ” phase :
14Peaks CapitalGP : Edoardo Ermotti
20VCGP : Harry Stebbings
Air Street CapitalGP : Nathan Benaich
aminic CollectiveGP : Manuel Grossmann
AnamcaraGP : Annelie Ajami
BackFuture VenturesGP : Alex Theuma
BooomGP : Felix Plapperer
Chalfen VenturesGP : Mike Chalfen
CocoaGP : Carmen Alfonso Rico
Common MagicGP : Sarah Drinkwater
Day One VenturesGP : Masha Bucher
EntropyGP : Sam Cash
FiredropGP : Pietro Invernizzi
ForewordGP : Declan Kelly
HelloworldGP : Rodrigo Martinez
InflectionGP : Alexander Lange
Lemonade StandGP : Siim Teller
Monte Carlo CapitalGP : Ian Sosso
Nomad CapitalGP : Marc McCabe
No Label VenturesGP : Ramzi Rafih
NP - Hard VenturesGP : Anke Huiskes
NebularGP : Finn Murphy
OpenseedVCGP : Maria Rotilu
Puzzle VenturesGP : Gloria Baeuerlein
System . OneGP : Max Claussen
The Nordic WebGP : Neil Murray
Underline VenturesGP : Bogdan Iordache
Unruly CapitalGP : Stefano Bernardi
