Image credits: Mathias Schilling
Headline, a tech-enabled global venture capital firm, announced on Thursday that it has closed a total of $943M (approximately €923M) in new capital across three distinct early-stage funds to fund next-gen entrepreneurs.
The three funds that Headline closed include:
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- Headline US VII, a $408M North America-focused fund that San Francisco-based Headline’s US management team closed.
- Headline EU VII, a €320M pan-Europe-focused fund that Berlin-based Headline’s EU management team secured.
- Headline Brazil III, a R$915M Latin America-focused fund that Sao Paulo-based Headline’s Brazilian management team closed.
The new Headline funds will invest $1.5M to $15M into technology startups across B2B and B2C in North America, Europe, and Latin America
“Despite the recent market shifts, we continue to aggressively pursue the next wave of world-changing innovation,” says Mathias Schilling, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Headline US.
He adds, “I’ve witnessed my fair share of market downturns over the past 20 years, and through these times, we’ve continued to seek out and cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit with a focus on the long-term. We believe Headline is uniquely positioned with our teams on the ground and a measured, methodical approach to investment that relies on our homegrown technology. The Headline teams will continue to take a founder-first philosophy as we invest these funds in each region.”
Headline: What you need to know
Founded in 1999, Headline uses its global team and proprietary data-informed investment approach to identify, track, and invest in the fastest growing early-stage technology companies at the Seed and Series A stages.
Headline says each fund is regionally focused and managed independently by its local management team. The firm’s early-stage funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, and invests locally.
The company uses an in-house AI sourcing system, EVA, to cut through biases and pinpoint companies that redefine industries regardless of background, ethnicity, gender, or headquarters location.
Headline’s proprietary business analytics platform, ATHENA, quantifies product-market fit by measuring the signals of customer obsession.
The sizes and locations of these funds make it possible for them to see local trends up close, identify winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage, says the company.
The VC has grown from its Silicon Valley origins to 50+ investment professionals across the US and Europe, as well as affiliated local early-stage investment teams in Asia and Latin America.
Some of Headline’s prior investments include Acorns, Angie’s List, AppFolio, Bumble, Creditas, Farfetch, Fetch Rewards, Flutterwave, Gopuff, Grin, Gympass, Honeycomb, Icertis, Pismo, The RealReal, Scopely, Segment, SEMRush, Sonos, Sorare, Staffbase, and Yeahka.
“Our early-stage focus enables us to closely work alongside the best and brightest entrepreneurs with a leader mindset to nurture their growth and accelerate market adoption,” says Christian Leybold, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Headline EU. “We have built a strong multi-local portfolio of European up-and-comers by following a guiding principle, ‘work as a team and with great people,’ and we will continue to follow this North Star with our latest fund.”
“Latin America has quickly become a vibrant hub for startup innovation, and as a Brazilian, I take pride in being able to support these companies. With R$915 million in newly secured funding for early-stage startups, we are excited to bolster the next generation of founders in the consumer internet, software, and fintech space as they continue to evolve the fabric of the Latin American startup ecosystem,” says Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner of Headline Brazil, based in Sao Paulo.
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