Headline, formerly e.ventures and BV Capital, is a global

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firm with an early-stage investment approach in the markets of

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and

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. It was founded in 1997 in

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and has since grown to invest in five different regions worldwide:

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and

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. The firm has its headquarters in

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, with additional offices in

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and

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;

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;

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;

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and

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History

BV Capital was founded in 1997 by

Jan Henric Buettner Jan Henric Buettner (born 1964) is a German entrepreneur. Born in Hamburg, Buettner studied business management there and did an internship at a precursor of Vodafone, then started his career as a trainee at Axel Springer AG, where he worked on in ...

, acting as executive partner for

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, and Wolfgang Rose along with Thomas Gieselmann and Mathias Schilling. Buettner had previously built up the multimedia companies Computel, Videotel and AOL Europe. BV Capital invested in internet companies, among them GotomyPC (Expertcity), which was acquired by

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in 2003. Along with raising its second fund, the company moved its offices to San Francisco in 2001. Investments of its second fund include

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, nCircle,

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, MrTed, Peanutlabs, and

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. The company also established an office in Hamburg, Germany, in 2001 to oversee its investments in Western Europe. Its third fund was raised in 2007 and is oriented to more global investments; the company has broadened its focus from the US and Western Europe to include Eastern Europe, Asia and Brazil, with offices opened in Russia and Asia in 2009 and in Brazil in 2012. Among the investments of its fourth generation of funds are

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( Acquired by

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), Citydeal (acquired by

Groupon Groupon is an American global e-commerce marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services in 13 countries. Based in Chicago, Groupon was launched there in November 2008, launching soon af ...

), Grupo Xango,

Farfetch Farfetch is a British-Portuguese online luxury fashion retail platform that sells products from over 700 boutiques and brands from around the world. The company was founded in 2007 by the Portuguese entrepreneur José Neves with its headquarters ...

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, Pulse (acquired by

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), Sapato (acquired by Ozon.ru), Eucalyptus Cloud, NGINX and Deposit Solutions. In 2012 BV Capital became e.ventures, adopting the same name for all its international branches. In 2021 e.ventures rebranded to become Headline.

Portfolio

Among Headline’s notable investments are: *

* App Annie *

Azimo Azimo B.V. was an online remittance service headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It also had offices in Kraków, Poland. Azimo offered money transfers to 190 receiving countries in over 80 different currencies. The company had half a millio ...

* Betaworks *

Bird (transportation company) Bird Global, Inc. is a micromobility company based in Miami, Florida. Founded in September 2017, Bird has distributed electric scooters designed for short-term rental to over 400 cities. History Bird was founded in September 2017 by Trav ...

Bumble Bumble is an online dating application. Profiles of potential matches are displayed to users, who can "swipe left" to reject a candidate or "swipe right" to indicate interest. In heterosexual matches, only female users can make the first contac ...

* delicious * goPuff *

* Segment *

Semrush Semrush Inc is an American public company that offers a SaaS platform known as Semrush. The platform is often used for keyword research and online ranking data, including metrics such as search volume and cost per click (CPC). The platform also ...

* Shopmonkey *

sonos SONOS, short for "silicon–oxide–nitride–oxide–silicon", more precisely, " polycrystalline silicon"—"silicon dioxide"—"silicon nitride"—"silicon dioxide"—"silicon", is a cross sectional structure of MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconduc ...

SpotHero SpotHero is a digital parking marketplace that connects drivers looking to reserve and pay for parking spaces with parking lots, parking garages and valet services. The company, which operates a mobile app and website as well as a parking developer ...

* Thrive Market *

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Sorare ''Sorare'' is a football fantasy game where players buy, sell, trade, and manage a virtual team with digital player cards. The game uses blockchain technology based on Ethereum and was developed in 2018 by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort. ...

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References

External links

Official Headline website

Official Headline portfolio
Financial services companies established in 1997 Venture capital firms of the United States