It was again in 2019 that we reported on Visionaries Club, a brand new, Berlin-based, European VC specializing in B2B, based by Sebastian Pollok and Robert Lacher. On the time, Visionaries Membership had launched two new €40M micro funds for seed and growth-stage B2B.
Pollok was beforehand a VC at e.ventures in San Francisco and likewise based Amorelie, which exited to Pro7Sat.1 Media Group. Lacher was beforehand a founding companion of La Famiglia, an early investor in FreightHub, Coya, Asana Insurgent, OnTruck and Personio.
Visionaries Membership has now introduced a second B2B-focused fund, with a brand new €150m Seed Fund and €200m ‘Early Development Fund. It’s up to now invested in corporations resembling Personio, Miro, Choco, Xentral, Truelayer, Vay, Taxdoo, Yokoy, Pigment, Leapsome and Gtmhub, alongside VCs resembling Sequoia, Accel, Index, Lightspeed or Bessemer.
In a press release, Lacher stated: “We’re extraordinarily proud and humbled that greater than 20 of our founder LPs are founders we’ve got backed previously, that now reinvest their non-public cash into our funds resembling Hanno Renner (Personio), Jenny Podewills (Leapsome), Daniel Khachab (Choco), Christian Reber (Pitch / Superlist) or the founders of Taxdoo and Insify.”
The fund basically operates as a micro-VC fund, which suggests it may well lead, and co-lead Seed funding offers, co-investing alongside bigger, multistage VC funds in Early Development stage (Sequence B) offers.
It’s additionally launching the Visionaries Membership science-driven, €50 million ‘Tomorrow Fund’ to again science-driven startups on the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.
Moreover, Sahar Meghani and Marton Sarkadi Nagy have been promoted to Companions.
London-based Meghani will take a lead function in managing the brand new Development Fund, whereas Sarkadi Nagy will take a lead on the seed fund actions.
