Triller has acquired River Venture Partners’ portfolio company Fangage, an all-in-one creator engagement platform founded by famous Dutch DJ, producer and creator, Sam Feldt. The acquisition is part of Triller’s new approach to fixing the creator economy and comes on the heels of acquisition of fast-growing influencer platform Julius. Read the Read more…
Flexible car subscription provider anyways announced that it has secured €700K funding in a pre-seed round. Amsterdam-based anyways is founded in 2020 by Wesley de Kruijf and Ilse Vonk. Investors who participated in the round include job van der Voort (GitLab and Remote), Horizon Flevoland, Alef Arendsen (founder of NewMotion), the syndicate Read more…
Iceland-based screen-sharing solution Crankwheel has acquired Accordium, the personal video communication tool for sales teams. Accordium was founded in 2017 in Copenhagen by Andrew Whitaker, Alexander Brix, Barrington Russell and Daniel Richardson and received funding from River Venture Partners and other investors in 2019. See the full press release on Read more…
Luxemburg-based sport club management software provider Clubee has raised new funding from River Venture Partners and other investors. Clubee provides an all-in-one software platform for clubs to manage their administrative, financial and communication processes and serves more than 4.000 amateur sports clubs in 5 countries and has partnerships with over Read more…
River Venture Partners’ portfolio company Kaizo has raised a second seed round of $4 million, led by Fortino, with participation of existing investors Gradient and Partech. Kaizo received funding from River Venture Partners in 2019. Read the full article on the seed round here:
Fangage is helping musicians and other creators to build communities of fans and find new ways to make money: from subscriptions, paid livestreams and sundry other features. It differentiates itself from the likes of Patreon and Onlyfans by giving creators full ownership of their audience data, the ability to use own Read more…
Twitter has acquired email newsletter service, and River Venture Partners portfolio company, Revue. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, is part of Twitter’s effort to compete with other social media companies that allow users to earn money from their followings, as the newsletter industry enjoys a spike in popularity. read Read more…
Calqulate, an automated financial analytics and knowledge base for startups and growth companies, has raised €1,5 million from American and European investors, led by Maki.vc and with participation from 70V, River Venture Partners and business angels. This new investment will enable Calqulate to expand into the U.S. market by the Read more…
Dutch private educational group Winford buys a majority stake in online marketplace for private tutoring Nimbles. Nimbles was founded in 2015 by Danique Wiltink and Adine Tjeenk Willink and launched their platform in 2016. Winford sees potential in (online) private tutoring services and sees Nimbles as a stepping stone to Read more…
CRM has for years been primarily a story of software to manage customer contacts, data to help agents do their jobs, and tools to manage incoming requests and outreach strategies. Now to add to that we’re starting to see a new theme: apps to help agents track how they work Read more…