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.

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.