Wellington Partners

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

Wellington Partners is one of the most well recognized European venture capital firms with total funds of € 800 million under management. We have invested in European early stage companies that have the potential to become market leaders. Since the 1990s we have been delighted to support the global ambitions of Europe's best entrepreneurs and to help them become global leaders in their businesses.

Country: Germany

Founded: 1998

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Europe

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • WealthTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Data and Analytics

Investment Stage

  • Seed
  • Early Stage Venture
  • Later Stage Venture
  • Series A
  • Series B
  • Series C
  • Series D

Summary

Wellington Partners is one of the most well recognized European venture capital firms with total funds of € 800 million under management. We have invested in European early stage companies that have the potential to become market leaders. Since the 1990s we have been delighted to support the global ambitions of Europe’s best entrepreneurs and to help them become global leaders in their businesses.

We are committed to backing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources. We typically lead financing rounds ranging from € 0.2 million to € 5 million. Besides capital, we work with entrepreneurs to help them on their journeys. Entrepreneurs can access our entire team and our global network of relationships.

We are looking for entrepreneurs with great ideas that can evolve into lasting global businesses. Time and again we have been impressed with the ability of top entrepreneurs to attract world-class talent with their unabated enthusiasm and relentless persistence to overcome whatever obstacles that may come in their path.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

January 2017

Dalia Research

$7m

Series A

  IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft

Data Analytics

Germany

June 2016

Festicket

$6.3m

Series B

E-Commerce

United Kingdom

January 2016

import.io

$13m

Series A

Big Data

United Kingdom

February 2015

Onfido

$4.5m

Series A

Security Technology

United Kingdom

November 2014

YPlan

$24m

Series B

E-Commerce

United Kingdom

September 2014

Festicket

$3m

Series A

E-Commerce

United Kingdom

September 2014

import.io

$3m

Seed

Big Data

United Kingdom

July 2014

Nosto

$5.5m

Series A

E-Commerce

Finland

June 2014

Definiens

$16.5m

Venture

Data Analytics

Germany

April 2014

opvizor

$1.25m

Series A

Enterprise Software

United States

December 2013

SumAll

$4m

Series A

E-Commerce

United States

July 2013

Wool and the Gang

$2.8m

Seed

E-Commerce

United Kingdom

June 2013

YPlan

$12m

Series A

E-Commerce

United Kingdom

June 2013

JustOne Database Inc

$1.25m

Seed

Data Analytics

United States

March 2013

import.io

$1.3m

Seed

Big Data

United Kingdom

December 2012

Zopa

N/A

Series D

P2P Lending

United Kingdom

November 2012

SumAll

$6m

Series A

E-Commerce

United States

July 2012

YPlan

$1.7m

Seed

E-Commerce

United Kingdom

June 2012

SumAll

$1.5m

Venture

E-Commerce

United States

June 2011

eWise

$14m

Venture

Personal Finance

Switzerland

December 2010

Proximic

$4.4m

Series C

Data Analytics

United States

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Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

Life Sciences Fund

$91M

2004

Wellington Partners III

$85M

2008

Wellington Partners IV Technology

$265M

Key Employees

Rolf Dienst
Founder & General Partner

Harald Keller
CFO

Thomas Widmann
General Partner

Regina Hodits
General Partner

Erich Schlick
General Partner

Rainer Strohmenger
General Partner