Coalition Capital partners with Europe’s most imaginative entrepreneurs.
We are a venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs and invests in spaces where tectonic technological shifts like Artificial Intelligence are creating extraordinary opportunities. It is our belief that the biggest companies of the next decade will be solving the world’s most pressing challenges, leveraging the power of AI along the way. From redefinition of supply chains, the improvement of worker's mental health, disruption in financials services, cybersecurity to bridging the digital skills gap, we see it as our mission to help solve real-world problems.
Coalition is thesis-driven and we are focused on Europe. We bring a true pay-it-forward mentality: invest time first, money second. We are convinced that true value and sustainable returns can only be created with a long-term strategic vision and a plan around the growth of organizations. It is our goal to patiently build companies into global leaders. We laud actual achievements, not artificial milestones of every increasing funding round valuations.
As a spin-out team from Inkef and Prosus, we are venture and growth equity veterans who have helped build iconic companies across the world. Often, we joined in the early innings and helped scale these businesses into category-defining multi-billion-dollar global gorillas. Under the flag of Coalition we intend to do it again.
Focus areas
Where we play
Acceleration
We partner with hungry overachievers to take those companies from:
Local hero to a global champion
1 to 10 and then from 10 to 100
We invest at Early Stage (Seed and Series A) and Growth Stage (Series B+)
We can be a lifetime partner until you go public
Massive Markets
Solutions to real problem
Trillion-dollar industries
We prioritize verticals we understand: Future of Commerce, Finance & Work and the enabling AI / Data Infrastructure
Europe
We believe Europe’s moment is now
We are Europe-native VCs with a global outlook
The Netherlands is our home market, and we strive to engage with every new unicorn there
We also invest in other imaginative European entrepreneurs who share that uniquely 'Dutch' ambition for bold expansion
Focus areas
We love imaginative deals
Contrarian
We go beyond the hype of the day
When others pursue the gold rush, we like the 'picks-and-shovels'
Complex
We pursue opportunities that others overlook—Things that most others will find boring or too complex and technical
We see potential earlier than others and are unafraid to venture where the unimaginative won't
We want other people to agree with us, but just later
Compounding
We love compounding ‘ecosystem’ plays
We look beyond what you've built thus far and see what else can be built on top
We believe ecosystem plays are immensely underappreciated in Europe
We focus on creating new generational companies solve real problems in trillion-dollar industries
AI and Data Tooling
DataOps
Design
Cybersecurity
Code
Search
DevOps
Productivity
Future of Commerce
AI-driven enablers (e.g. pricing, inventory)
Supply chain
Re-commerce
Next-generation marketplaces
Future of
Finance
Embedded finance
Verticalized solutions
Payments
Supply chain finance
Data driven investing
Compliance / AML
Future of
Work
Next Gen HR stack
Skills building
Mental health
We raise the bar in European venture capital
Collaborative
We prove our worth by investing time first
Lead, follow, or stay stealth, board seat or not, we take your lead
We understand building durable companies takes time; we support in good times and bad times
We offer real help where it matters: topline and the people function
We instil a deep performance culture; Inspired by the best from US and Asia
We aspire to be the Most Valuable Player on the cap table
Data-driven
We are radically thesis-driven and understand your business like no other investor does
We operate a conviction-based approach; always working from first principles
We are a recognized pioneer in data-driven sourcing
Connected
We are venture and growth equity veterans with experience in building iconic global gorillas (and obsessed about doing it again)
Few European VCs touched as many global unicorns
We bring an unrivalled industry network, opening doors to global tech giants and enterprises
We offer a unique global view on tech trends and scaling