It can be difficult to stand out to investors in a crowded marketplace, to secure much-needed funding for continued growth.
But that’s where SaaStock comes in.
Our events break down the barriers between innovative SaaS startups and investors who are looking for their next big investment opportunity. The investors who are attending SaaStock in Dublin this October are actively searching for exciting SaaS companies like yours.
Here are some of the investors and VCs who are attending and want to meet YOU 👇
- Oxx
Who are they?
Oxx is a specialist SaaS investor, backing Europe’s most promising B2B SaaS scale-ups from Series A and beyond.
🌟 Success stories – Lightico:
Portfolio company Lightico’s recent acquisition of Vizolution secures the company’s position as a market leader in the digital completion space. Vizolution is Europe’s leading customer journey experience technology provider, and incorporating their technology will enable Lightico to offer clients a unified solution to deliver an end-to-end, seamless, digital and complete solution for the entire customer lifecycle.
Oxx saw huge potential in Lightico and invested in the company in 2020. Since then, they have worked closely with the company’s leadership team, providing strategic and operational advice, including guidance on the recent meaningful acquisition.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Apica
Black Swan Data
Codility
Crunchr
CyberSmart
Funnel
Goodlord
Gravitee.io
Latana
Lightico
Peak|
Zift
2. Susquehanna Growth Equity
Who are they?
Susquehanna has the most flexible capital for software and information services companies in the industry, and lets you decide the timeline and future of your company.
🌟 Success stories – Allocadia:
Portfolio company Allocadia was acquired by Brandmaker in July of 2021. The company provides marketers with planning, budgeting and performance software, collectively known as Marketing Performance Management (MPM), that replaces spreadsheets, email, and many other manual processes used by marketing teams to run their operations.
Allocadia’s exit was supported by the team at Susquehanna.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
ActiveCampaign
Avalara
B-Stock Solutions
Bestpass
BoomTown
Buildout
CallApp
Cymulate
Duda
Field Nation
HackerRank
Mend
PerkSpot
Sievo
Speechmatics
Zen QMS
3. PSG
Who are they?
PSG is a growth equity firm that partners with middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies to help them navigate transformational growth, capitalise on strategic opportunities and build strong teams.
🌟 Success stories – Nalanda:
In May 2023, portfolio company Nalanda acquired Dokify to consolidate its position as the leading Spanish risk and compliance management software platform. The acquisition enhances Nalanda’s growing presence in non-construction sectors and expands its product suite to position the company for international growth.
The acquisition process was supported by PSG.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Artur’In
billwerk+
N2F
MentorcliQ
Imaweb
Nalanda
Nomentia
Powens
Rapid Data
Rodeo
Searchspring
Sellsy
Sesame HR
Signaturit Solutions
SKEEPERS
Tellent
4. Flashpoint
Who are they?
Flashpoint is an international technology investment firm that manages venture equity, debt and secondary funds. Flashpoint funds invest in software companies launched by teams originating from Eastern Europe and Israel.
🌟 Success stories – Clausematch:
In August 2023, Flashpoint announced its 15th successful exit, with its exit from Clausematch, the global RegTech company pioneering the automation of policy management and compliance for regulated industries. Clausematch was acquired by Corlytics, with the merger creating a platform that manages the entire regulatory risk value chain on a global scale.
Flashpoint participated in Clausematch’s 2022 US$10.8M strategic investment round via Flashpoint’s Venture Debt Fund I. Flashpoint’s exit from Clausematch marked an important milestone, representing the Group’s 15th exit and the Venture Debt team’s second.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Guesty
Booksy
Chili Piper
K2View
LandTech
Borzo
Telemedi
OGO Ship
IntelliBoard
TraceAir
Omnipack
Gaviti|
Makini
Mercaux
DigiDoe
5. Albion Capital
Who are they?
Albion Capital is an independent investment firm providing investors with access to entrepreneurs who build enduring businesses. Albion focuses on the technology and healthcare sectors, and believes in offering “patient capital” and strategic support, giving portfolio companies time to flourish, thereby maximising returns for investors.
🌟 Success stories – Seldon:
In March 2023, Seldon, a data-centric machine learning operations (MLOps) platform, secured £16.5m in Series B funding with significant participation from existing investors including Albion. As a category leader in the MLOps space, the funding will be used to continue to pioneer a data-centric approach to AI across Seldon’s suite of products.
Seldon has achieved a remarkable 400% YoY growth rate in its open source frameworks since its series A in November 2020. Seldon’s cutting-edge research, in collaboration with teams at Cambridge University, has been key to their innovative product development and is a central focus of the company following the raise.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
5Mins
Accelex
Anthropics Technology
Atego
Black Swan
Blackbay
Clear Review
Concirrus
Credit Kudos
Grapeshot
Healios
Limitless
MI-Pay
Ophelos
OutThink
Panaseer
Reg Genome
Solidatus
Toqio
6. Bessemer Venture Partners
Who are they?
Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco. In 2022, Venture Capital Journal ranked the firm as the 8th largest venture capital firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period.
🌟 Success stories – Render:
In June 2023, Bessemer Venture Partners successfully led Render’s $50 million Series B to empower developers to build anything, anywhere, with no DevOps tedium. Render is on a mission to build the first unified cloud-based platform for full-stack development.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Alloy
Appwrite
BillGuard
Bold Metrics
CloudLock
Contractbook
Dashbot
eEye Digital Security
Finmark
Innoviti
Intercom
Lentra
nCino
Papaya Global
RevenueBase
SendGrid
Torq
Unito
VeriSign
Zapier
7. Capnamic
Who are they?
Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Their focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.
🌟 Success stories – Getsafe
Portfolio company Getsafe recently raised a $93 million Series B round. The German company originally started with a digital-first home contents insurance product. It sells its products directly to end customers through its website and app. Over time, Getsafe expanded to new products, such as personal liability, dog liability, drone liability, bike theft protection and car insurance.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
OneDot
Ordio
Rencore
Reverse.Supply
Sunhat
Staffbase
Synctive
Strava
Tanso
Userlane|
Workpath
8. Dawn Capital
Who are they?
Dawn Capital is one of Europe’s leading specialist B2B software investors. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams, exceptional technology and scalable business models to create category-defining global companies.
🌟 Success stories – Cover Genius:
Portfolio company Cover Genius, an insurtech platform that prices and handles claims for virtually any line of insurance or warranty, announced in November 2022 that it raised $70 million in a Series D round led by Dawn Capital with participation from Atlas Merchant Capital, GSquared and King River Capital. Bringing the 420-person company’s total raised to $165 million, which will be used to further expand Cover Genius’ insurance distribution services.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Ably
Billie
Checkstep
CluedIn
Copper
Divido
Element
Elwood
Fonoa
Gelato
Hoxhunt
Medusa
Quantilope
Sonovate
Vulcan
9. Eight Roads Ventures
Who are they?
Eight Roads Ventures partners with ambitious technology and healthcare founders from all across the world. They currently have partnerships with over 300 companies and investment teams across Asia, Europe and the US, providing entrepreneurs with access to a global ecosystem, to leverage and learn from.
🌟 Success stories – Thinksurance:
German insurtech firm, and Eight Roads portfolio company, Thinksurance recently raised $24 million enabling it to continue to expand its platform. The platform is a digital insurance consultations solution for commercial and industrial clients, allowing insurance distributors to fully digitalise consultations and policy processes for increased speed and accuracy.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
7bridges
Appsflyer
Fireblocks
Funnelk
Fuse Universal
Gloat
Kaiko
MentionMe
Noogata
more2
Red Points
Threat Stack
Walnut
10. Elkstone Partners
Who are they?
Elkstone Partners is the leading Irish Investment House focused on Entrepreneurs, Senior Executives, Institutional LPs, the Venture Community and Irish Diaspora. Their mission is to increase the economic value and overall well-being of Ireland by growing their network, enabling deserving investments and delivering superior investment performance.
🌟 Success stories – Protex AI:
Elkstone portfolio company, Protex AI, recently raised $18 million in seed and Series-A funding to help protect workers using AI, and grow their presence in Europe and North America.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Allsorter
Coras
CroiValve
Evercam
Flipdish
Gudog
Luminate
Manna
Output
Prommt
Protex AI
Robotify
SoapBox
Tami
Unify Ordering
11. Five Elms Capital
Who are they?
Five Elms Capital is an investment firm specialising in founder-owned, bootstrapped, B2B software companies. They invest $5-75 million in companies with $2-20 million in revenues, working alongside management to accelerate growth.
🌟 Success stories – Proxyclick:
In January 2022, portfolio company Proxyclick was acquired by Condeco to better address the urgent need for businesses to safely reconnect people in the workplace. Proxyclick is a SaaS provider of visitor management solutions.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
ActiveProspect
Apptegy
Claravine
ContractSafe
Crelate Talent
Fable
GoReact
Karbon
PracticeBetter
OpenReel
Rebrandly|
Skynamo
Userlane
12. Fortino Capital Partners
Who are they?
Fortino is a leading B2B software venture capital and growth equity firm with offices in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Munich. They invest in early- and mid-cycle B2B SaaS businesses to enable their growth.
🌟 Success stories – BizzMine:
In September 2023, portfolio company BizzMine announced the acquisition of Sercle Software, a UK-based commercial partner of BizzMine. As a result of this acquisition, BizzMine established local presence in the UK, representing an opportunity for further growth.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Billy Grace
Bonitasoft
BuyBay
Cenosco
Getvisibility
Efficy
Kaizo
LetsBuild
MobileXpense
Penbox
Piesync
Sigma
Conso
Symbio
Venly
13. Mosaic Ventures
Who are they?
Mosaic Ventures invests $1-10m in early-stage European companies.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Arex Markets
Auterion
Blockstream
Centrifuge
Enfore
Hokodo
InfoSum
Mavenoid
Shipamax
Tray.io
Vortexa
Veriff
14. Octopus Ventures
Who are they?
Octopus Ventures provides venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world for the better. The teams are sector experts focusing on seven meaningful areas: B2B Software, Bio, Climate, Consumer, Deep Tech, Fintech and Health. They build long-lasting relationships with founders, investing as early as an idea on a page and supporting at every stage of growth.
🌟 Success stories – Natterbox:
In June 2023, Natterbox, an Octopus Ventures portfolio company, announced that it had partnered with PCI Pal to add a fully integrated PCI compliant payment solution. This new integration builds on Natterbox’s existing PCI functionality and offers merchants and their customers an extra level of data security by ensuring no sensitive data reaches the organisation’s environment when processing card payments. With the Natterbox PCI Payments solution, powered by PCI Pal, businesses can securely process credit card information over the phone with full PCI DSS compliance, giving customers peace of mind.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Sova
Pernmutive
Lollipop
Natterbox
BKwai
Amplience
Lodgify
Mention Me
Synchtank
Volunteero
Intigriti
Velaris
ValueBlue
HAS Technology
Bondaval
Jolt
Legl
15. Sapphire Ventures
Who are they?
Sapphire Ventures is an enterprise VC firm making direct investments at the growth and expansion stage. Sapphire Ventures specialises in enterprise software, contributing their vast experience to help founders of high-growth B2B companies with their challenges when scaling from expansion stage to IPO.
🌟 Success stories – AI:
In June 2023, Sapphire Ventures announced that it is deepening its commitment to AI by investing more than $1 billion in AI-powered enterprise technology startups, including those specialising in generative AI. With $2.4B+ deployed across 60 active AI-focused investments, Sapphire builds on over a decade of data, analytics and AI investing experience. Watch this space!
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Adverity
Contentful
Criteo
Currencycloud
Feedzai
GitGuardian
Gorgias
Natillion
Scytl
Tesseract
Unmind
Wandera
Wise
Yapily
16. Senovo
Who are they?
Senovo is an early-stage B2B SaaS-only fund. It makes a handful of high conviction commitments per year to founders who aim to re-define categories.
🌟 Success stories – IP Fabric:
In June 2023, IP Fabric, the market leader in automated network assurance, announced that it had closed a $25m Series B funding round led by One Peak with the participation of Senovo and Presto Ventures. This will fuel IP Fabric’s mission of making network assurance ubiquitous so that people, businesses, and governments can operate without the exponential risk of network failures or outages.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
Anyline
CultureAI
Dive
Hello Customer
Hive MQ
Lyntics
Manta
OpenAsApp
Parloa
Quantilope
Shyftplan
Sphera
Styla
17. Smedvig Capital
Who are they?
Smedvig Capital is passionate about finding and supporting the best Series A and Series B stage fast-growing businesses. The money they invest remains all their own, principally that of the Smedvig family. They offer a flexible source of capital, supporting and accelerating ambition with a long-term view, often backing companies over multiple rounds all the way to exit.
🌟 Success stories – EdgeTier:
In June 2023, Smedvig Capital announced a €6m Series A investment in EdgeTier to meet growing demand for real-time AI analytics in the contact centre. Episode 1 and Act Venture Capital also participated in the Series A round.
💼 Current portfolio companies include:
EdgeTier
Lunio
Mavenoid
Semble
proSapient
Yumpingo
Masabi
POQ
azuna
antidote
Profile Pensions
Veeve
Simplify
Xeneta
Infinity
Whip Media
SaaStock Dublin offers lots of opportunities for you to connect with likeminded SaaS peers and investors. Get more visibility, and secure more meetings in 2 days than you’d otherwise be able to achieve in one month. Confirm your participation today.
