Investor profile

Global Founders Capital

Venture Capital · Founded 2013 · Berlin, Germany

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Globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs world-wide

605 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $11B invested · 859 investments · Investor rank #229 · Last investment 7/2026

Portfolio companies 605 ↑ 36% 5y

Decacorns 4

Thoroughbreds 21 ↑ 11% 5y

Power Law #36Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 0.5%

Featured in

News Arrakis exits stealth with $38M to bring agentic AI to industry Jul 22, 2026

Estimated holdings

Global Founders Capital’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Global Founders Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 13 companies where Global Founders Capital is a named shareholder, worth about $1.7B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value

1 PersonioJobs Recruitment · Unicorn 11% $5.0B $550M
2 PennylaneFintech · Unicorn 8% $4.0B $321M
3 tabbyFintech · Unicorn 4% $4.5B $180M
4 FortoEnterprise Software · Unicorn 8.5% $2.1B $178M
5 NiumFintech · Unicorn 7% $1.4B $98M
6 PacasoReal Estate · Unicorn 6.5% $1.5B $98M
7 3% $2.8B $82M
8 8.5% $660M $56M
9 2% $2.3B $46M
10 2.5% $1.5B $38M
11 1.4% $1.3B $19M
12 1.51% $79M $1M

Showing the 12 largest of 13 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Global Founders Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Global Founders Capital also appears inside investor groups in Traveloka, Zepto, iwoca, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Exits

Global Founders Capital’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Global Founders Capital’s transaction record.

Slack

$16B IPO · 2019

Entered Series B+Now $23BEnterprise Software

Rocket Internet

$8.2B IPO · 2014

Entered SeedNow $1.9BMarketing

Trivago

$2.9B IPO · 2016

Entered SeedNow $265MTravel

Tink

$2.0B acquisition · 2021

Entered Series AFintech

HomeToGo

$1.3B IPO · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $203MTravel

Portfolio analysis

Where Global Founders Capital’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 605 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA213
Germany65
UK42
Brazil34
France34
Singapore24
India22
Canada17
Indonesia16
UAE15
Australia14
Mexico13

By sectorCount

Fintech183
Enterprise Software107
Marketing62
Real Estate51
Food48
Transportation44
Health32
Education28
Media25
Travel24
Jobs Recruitment23
Energy20

By stage enteredCount

Seed407
Series A159
Series B+38

By growth stageCount

Breakout Stage264
Early Growth249
Late Growth92

Portfolio market map

Inside Global Founders Capital’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 605 tracked.

Enterprise Software · Decacorn

Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn

Transportation · Unicorn

Real Estate · Unicorn

Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn

Real Estate · Unicorn

Clever Care Health Plan

Portfolio founders

Where Global Founders Capital’s portfolio founders come from.

200 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States51
France21
Germany20
United Kingdom16
Brazil12
Canada11
Singapore8
India7
Indonesia7
Australia6

UniversityCount

Stanford University13
Harvard Business School7
École Polytechnique - IP Paris5
ESSEC Business School5
Harvard University5
The University of the Andes5
University of California, Berkeley5
Columbia Business School4
HEC Paris4
London School of Economics and Political Science4

Previous companyCount

McKinsey & Company13
Alphabet | Google7
Boston Consulting Group6
Uber6
Bain & Company5
Amazon4
Deutsche Bank4
eBay4
PayU4
Stanford University4

How Global Founders Capital stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Global Founders Capital.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.