French President Nicolas Sarkozy was the first French President to have a Chief Digital Officer for the country. Hired straight from university to fill that role, Nicolas Princen helped boost France to become one of Europe’s hottest digital hubs, helping along the way organise the...
With Expon I Fund’s first company — Spire Global — going public earlier this week and raising $265m, our portfolio companies have raised over $1.1 billion this year, showing a fantastic exponential portfolio balance, and great outlook for the fund’s overall performance !...
Expon Capital is excited to participate in a €54m Series B to support Refurbed, the premier refurbishment platform enabling the world’s circular economy to scale together. The team started Refurbed after seeing from the inside that behemoth marketplaces and consumer electronics makers could never make...
Spire Global closed a $70m pre-IPO round ahead of its planned public listing as SPIR on the NYSE later this year. CEO Peter Platzer is building the world’s leading weather data company supporting Net Zero goals and Climate Change adaption. Current funding will go to expand...
Expon Capital is excited to participate in a €54m Series B to support Refurbed, the premier refurbishment platform enabling the world’s circular economy to scale together. The team started Refurbed after seeing from the inside that behemoth marketplaces and consumer electronics makers could never make...
Ocus offers tailor-made software and a marketplace of opportunities to empower photographers and creatives to focus on their craft. The platform helps users pick and manage opportunities with a variety of corporate, tech, and media companies, and includes powerful software to support post-production and editing....
Dott solidified itself as one of Europe’s leading e-mobility companies with tenders in Paris, London, Brussels, Rome, and Milan, and a first-of-its-kind e-bike launch in London. The company has now closed an $85m round to continue its meticulous and uniquely profitable expansion. Dott uses professionalized...
Spire Global publicized its plans to IPO via a SPAC at a targeted $1,6b pro forma enterprise value. CEO Peter Platzer is building the world’s leading weather data company supporting Net Zero goals and Climate Change adaption. Expon has been proud to participate over the...
Expon participated in PLIOPS Series C, doubling down on earlier investments in the company’s revolutionary SSD data storage technology. The company is increasing data storage performance, recall, and efficiency by orders of magnitude, and offers to decrease energy consumption of the world’s largest datacenters by...
GLOVO, one of the world’s leading multi-category delivery companies, is continuing its evolution, under the leadership of CEO Oscar Pierre, to become a carbon-neutral B-Corp with a dedicated social impact team. The company’s €450m ($528m) pre-IPO round, the largest round in Spanish venture history, was...