On Thursday October 24th 2019 Connected Capital’s portfolio company Omnia hosted their annual Omnia REINVENT conference at The Volkshotel in Amsterdam. This annual conference brings together thought leaders, industry pioneers and hundreds of retail and brand professionals.

ChannelSight , the Dublin-based leaders in ‘Where to Buy’ technology for large brands has closed a Series-B financing round of $10 million, led by Connected Capital, the Amsterdam-based B2B SaaS investor. Channelsight will use this round to consolidate its global 'Where-to-Buy' leadership position.

Star Cook Jasper Hermans of restaurant Aan de Poel, is teaching Connected Capital’s portfolio companies the tricks of the trade. The Connected Capital team together with the leaders from Omnia, iWelcome, Concentra, Speakap and InstantMagazine kicked-off the New year with an evening of cooking, sharing and learning from one another. A four course SaaS-cooked dinner by and with the stars of our portfolio.

Deloitte ranked Speakap as second fastest growing company over the periode 2014-2017 with a 4 year growth percentage well above 2100%. First prize winner is InnerCircle with SendCloud ranking third. In the rising star categorie prize winners included Temper and Amber. The award gala evening was led by host Rens de Jong with Martin Wabeke (Deloitte) handing out prizes and awards.

Dutch software company Instant Magazine, makers of a user-friendly platform for creating interactive, mobile responsive content, received an investment of $5.4 million from Connected Capital, as well as existing investor Newion. Instant Magazine will use the capital to finance its development roadmap and growth plans. 

Connected Capital wins the 2018 ACG Holland Innovation award for Speakap. The award was presented by J.B Dollison, President of the ACG Global Board and collected by Mathijs Robbens of Connected Capital & Erwin van der Vlist of Speakap

The investment will enable Concentra to accelerate its international expansion and support product
development initiatives for its market-leading strategic human capital software solution. Joseph Schull, the former Head of Europe for international private equity firm Warburg Pincus, joins as co-investor and Chairman of the Board

Speakap is een soort Facebook voor bedrijven en heeft IKEA als klant – Nu wil de Amsterdamse startup groeien in de VS. Patrick van der Mijl is samen met zijn compagnon Erwin van der Vlist bezig om de interne communicatie binnen bedrijven op zijn kop te zetten.

Het Amersfoortse softwarebedrijf iWelcome krijgt een kapitaalinjectie van 'vele miljoenen' van twee investeringsfondsen. Dat maakt het bedrijf, dat is gespecialiseerd in software die helpt om klant- en personeelsdata te beheren, maandag bekend.