Facing a communications crisis? Here's what to do...
Facing a crisis is daunting and something we’d all prefer to avoid. But in the world of business, that’s not a realistic option. Luckily, there are many things your startup can do now… before the 💩 hits the fan.
We chatted with Kekst CNC's crisis comms expert, Mikey Hoare, to find out the basic steps founders on any budget can take to minimize the impact of a crisis – from identifying potential crises to knowing when to involve customers and the media.
Watch the video above or read a transcription on our blog.
What else is happening...
→ Portfolio Highlight: 17 of our portfolio companies are on trend.at's list of the top 100 Austrian startups – and 7 are in the top 10
→ Have You Heard? Inkitt raises $37M Series C & Lapse a $30M Series A
→ Welcome to the Family: Tuum is helping banks replace legacy core systems, freeing up time and money while enabling innovation
→ Our Perspective: Our CEO & Managing Partner Oliver Holle shares the macro themes he’ll be paying attention to in 2024 and 3 pieces of must-know advice for early-stage founders navigating the year ahead
→ Speedinvest News: We closed our oversubscribed Speedinvest 4 fund at €350M – €50M above target
Additional portfolio updates, deep-dive content, job openings, and more below ⬇️
Have You Heard?
Our portfolio's latest funding announcements
Inkitt raises $37M Series C
The Berlin-founded and San Francisco-based platform uses AI and data science to select and optimize the most compelling stories written by users and distribute them on their app, Galatea. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures led the Series C round.
Lapse snaps up a $30M Series A
The London-headquartered company is a friends-focused photo-sharing app inspired by the experience of disposable cameras, encouraging users to capture and share authentic, unedited photos with friends, not just random social media followers. The Series A was co-led by Greylock and DST Global.
Welcome to the Family
The latest additions to our portfolio
With an average go-live time of just seven months, the Estonian company’s cloud-native platform allows banks to operate multiple business lines from a single system, including accounts, lending, payments, and cards.
Tuum has seen a compound annual growth rate of more than 250% and won over customers in 10 countries, with a pronounced presence in the UK and Nordics.
- Kema is automating cash flow for B2B SMEs in MENA and slashing accounts receivable process costs by 50 percent. (Wamda)
- MinersAI is helping the world transition away from fossil fuels by using AI, data, and crowdsourcing for Minerals Exploration. (MinersAI)
Portfolio Headlines & Highlights
News and updates from across our portfolio
Greyparrot and Bollegraaf are combining forces to accelerate the digitization of the recycling sector using AI.
- Cylib, Tide, TWAICE, and Upvest are featured on Lazard's T100 European Venture Growth Index (Larzard)
- Orakl is on EU-Startup's list of 10 rising stars in France (eu-startups.com)
- Porotech wins the prestigious Prism Award in the AR, VR and MR category (photonicsprismaward.com)
- planqc and d-fine are teaming up to develop compilers and a remote access platform for the German Aerospace Center's Quantum Computing Initiative (planqc.com)
- Molecule announces Nucleate partnership and $100K DeSci Award (molecule.xyz)
- Raus has expanded into Austria (raus.com)
- IOMED received the European Union Seal of Excellence for complying with quality requirements (iomed.health)
- Ledgy is now ISO 27001 certified (ledgy.com)
- Curve and Tide are on Sifted's list of UK "soonicorns" to watch (Sifted)
- ThinkSono partners with Temple's academic medical institution to study how AI can be used to detect Deep Vein Thrombosis more quickly (Temple Health)
- planqc and MPI Quantum announced a significant breakthrough in scaling neutral atom qubit arrays (arxiv.org)
- Kittl founder and CEO Nicolas Heymann shares details about the design platform's rapid growth (Startup Insider Podcast, German)
- Finary launches a solution for generating passive income in crypto (Finyear)
Our Perspective
Showcasing our expertise on the VC ecosystem at large
Oliver Holle shares the macro themes he’ll be paying attention to in 2024, from the obvious - insert AI reference written by ChatGPT here - to less talked about trends and changes in the European tech ecosystem. Plus, 3 pieces of must-know advice for early-stage founders navigating the year ahead.
- Daria Gherghelas discusses how founders can secure funding in this rebalanced investment landscape (Health Tech Forward 2023)
- Mathias Ockenfels dives into the big Marketplaces & Consumer news of the week alongside Felix Klühr (Startup Insider, German)
- Namratha Kothapalli tells PitchBook why Tibo Energy and Axle Energy should be on your radar (PitchBook)
- Oliver Holle weighs in on how Germany's 35 unicorns will fare in 2024 (Handelsblatt, German)
- Katharine Spooner shares why investors are going further afield from 'the Golden Triangle' and what they're looking for in founders (PreSeed Now)
- Andreas Schwarzenbrunner discussed how tech can help us optimize the way we use our resources (ETS 2023)
- Daria Gherghelas shares the femtech startups you need to know (Sifted)
Who's Hiring?
There are more than 1,000 vacancies across our portfolio. Browse open jobs below and on our website.
- Refurbed - Director of Customer Service (Remote)
- Cobee - Head of Product Expansion (Madrid)
- Breathe Battery Technologies - VP Finance (London)
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- Head of People & Portfolio Service - (all genders) - Munich, Vienna
- Visiting Analyst Fundraising - (all genders) - Vienna
- Junior Financial Analyst - (all genders) - Vienna
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See you next month!