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September 22, 2022

Berlin-based Visionaries Club raises €400m to invest in European B2B tech

The B2B market is slowing down — so where will Visionaries Club place its bets?


Visionaries Club, a VC firm based in Berlin, has raised a fresh €400m fund to invest in B2B tech. This will be divided into three separate funds: a €150m seed fund; a €200m early growth fund to invest in startups post-Series B; and a new so-called Tomorrow Fund of €50m, which will focus on science and technology investments at pre-seed and seed. 

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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