Omnia Retail acquires German pricing software provider Patagona. Both companies are specialized in dynamic pricing software and with the integration Omnia will become Europe’s leading enterprise pricing solution.

SurePay, inventor and leading provider of Confirmation of Payee (CoP) in the UK and Benelux, raised a €12.2 million round led by Connected Capital with Iris Capital, joining Rabo Frontier Ventures to boost the company’s international expansion.

Dutch SaaS companies Onegini and iWelcome today announced that the companies have merged into OneWelcome. The combination blends into the largest European vendor of Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) SaaS. The merger expedites the combined vision of making digital business for all European enterprises simple and safe. From day-one, OneWelcome protects tens of millions of European digital identities for flag-ship customers like Aegon, Admiral Insurance, Baloise, Malakoff Humanis, PostNL, Dutch Railways and the European Central Bank.

Brella closes $10M Series A for networking focused event platform after record 2020 growth

The networking-focused hybrid event platform Brella successfully closed a $10M Series A funding round. The company currently serves some of the largest presences in the event industry, including Informa, Marcus Evans, Questex and IQPC.

A new B2B consumer has emerged amidst a decade of dramatic change to the B2B marketing and sales landscape. Cutting-edge digital platforms now drive how business gets done and increasingly guide how decisions are made.

Traditional strategies are becoming obsolete as content marketing replaces the sales techniques of yesteryear, and a modern B2B consumer with distinct buying habits has come into focus.

To provide even better cloud services to users at the East Coast of the US, UpCloud is launching a new data centre in New York City. We are excited that after Chicago and San Jose, it is UpCloud's third data centre in the United States. Opening of the NYC data centre is a part of Upcloud's global growth plan. It is being fueled by the €18 million investment provided at the beginning of 2020 in a round led by Connected Capital. The US-NYC1 is the first of several new data centres that UpCloud is opening this year.

The messages currently flooding your inbox all have a similar theme: COVID-19 is changing everything, and this is how we are responding. Whether it’s your bank, yoga studio, or children’s school, there’s no escaping the persistent drumbeat of forced adaptation, in life and at work.

COVID-19 has changed how we work in the blink of an eye, and this is the new normal.

On the 20th of January Connected Capital hosted the annual portfolio event at Restaurant Aan de Poel. At this event the leadership teams of all seven portfolio companies joined the Connected Capital team in reflecting on last year’s successes and looking forward to all that is ahead in the new year.

UpCloud, the European leader in high performance cloud computing services fuels its growth with €18 million in new funding.

UpCloud is incredibly excited to announce that it has secured €18 million in equity and debt funding to expedite its growth and international expansion.