Our Venture Capital team is recognised as one of the strongest in Europe, advising our clients across all stages of their life cycle from 'cradle to liquidity'. Our international offering includes many of the major tech hubs, such as Silicon Valley, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. We see all sides of the investment dialogue enabling us to understand and focus on the commercial drivers and drive efficiency in managing transactions.
We act for many of the most high-profile investors - from prominent early stage funds and the biggest international venture capital firms to corporate investors and sovereign wealth funds – as well as many of the most successful early and growth stage investee companies across the world. We've advised on many headline-grabbing investments in the last decade, and many clients have been clients of the firm since their inception, valuing our strategic, tactical and technical advice.
Our aim is simple, to use our heritage and continued involvement as leaders in the venture capital market to enable you to make the right decisions with confidence.
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Corporate venturing Employee and management participation Exit strategies (venture capital) Financing rounds (Seed, subsequent and growth financing) equity and non-equity instruments Implementation of business models Start-up advice VC funds formation Venture capital taxation Strategic digital venturesThis values Dataiku at over USD1 billion. This is one of a long line of deals that Taylor Wessing has advised Dawn Capital on having also advised Dawn Capital on its participation in the EUR 90 million funding round for European open banking platform Tink; and its participation in the £29m Series B round for natural language processing company Eigen Technologies.
Press releaseVinted, Europe's largest online international C2C marketplace dedicated to second-hand fashion, on its EUR128 million Series E round financing which values the company at over EUR1 billion.The round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing backers including Sprints Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments.
Press releaseInvestors into Flatfair, a London-based fintech that lets landlords offer “deposit-free” renting to tenants, as it raises USD11m in order to expand its platform.
Babylon Health, a UK-based digital health subscription provider, on its USD550m fundraising to support expansion into the US and Asia. This is the largest ever fundraising in the European or US digital health sector and values Babylon at over USD2bn. Investors included PIF, ERGO Fund, Kinnevik and Vostok New Ventures.
Press releaseThe UK’s largest online meal-kit manufacturer, Gousto, on its latest GBP30 million fundraising round. Led by private equity investor Perwyn, the investment takes the total funds raised by Gousto to over GBP100 million. Gousto will use the investment to evolve its technology proposition, so it can continue to lead the recipe box category and grow its share of the 1 billion home-cooked meals eaten in the UK weekly. This is the third funding round that Taylor Wessing has advised Gousto on.
Press releaseWolt, the Helsinki-based food delivery service, on its USD160 million financing round.This included the most recently closed USD130m Series C 130m led by ICONIQ Capital and a previous USD30m Series B led by 83North in January 2018.
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