Alexander Samwer
Founding Partner @ Picus Capital
Munich, Germany
Alexander Samwer is a Series A investor at Picus Capital in Munich focused on B2B and E-Commerce. Alexander Samwer is the Founder and Managing Director of Arvantis Group. He previously worked at Zalando SE as an Investor and Member of the Supervisory Board. Alexander Samwer attended Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Alexander Samwer invests in
Stages Alexander Samwer invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- B2B 1 (100%)
- E-Commerce 1 (100%)
- Marketplace 1 (100%)
- Food and Beverage 1 (100%)
- Information Services 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $200b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, grocery stores and any food outlet to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services. The suppliers who sell through Cayena get a rapid boost in high-quality,recurring demand without taking any credit risk. | Series A / Sep 13, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Picus Capital
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow. We want to become the closest partner of our portfolio companies by working together on key strategic decisions and operative challenges. As a privately financed venture capital investor with long-term and flexible capital we are looking for exceptional founders who are committed to building category leaders throughout the next 5-10+ years. We invest in early-stage technology ventures with a focus on financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech and e-commerce. Picus makes initial investments in pre-seed, seed and series A ventures thereby starting to work together with entrepreneurs in various stages of their companies ranging from ideation phase to initial traction. We follow a very long-term investment approach investing significant amounts throughout the lifecycle of the companies. We have invested in over 50 companies to date. At Picus we work in a culture combining the discipline of a financial investor with the creativity and pragmatism of an entrepreneur. We follow a comprehensive and well-structured investment approach in order to identify the most attractive and ambitious investment opportunities in our target industries and geographies. Within our core investment team every member has a distinctive industry competence and a functional or geographic focus. We are working closely together with our portfolio companies to develop large and successful market leaders. This comprises in particular leveraging our marketing & sales expertise and our global market perspective to provide strategic advice, providing HR management to grant access to top talent, connecting our portfolio companies with our broad B2B & investor network as well as supporting the fundraising process.
Picus Capital Contacts
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Florian Reichert
Partner & Managing Director
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Oliver Heinrich
Partner
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Abhijay Thacker
Investment Advisor
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Alexander Kremer
Partner
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Alexander Samwer
Founding Partner
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What does Alexander Samwer invest in?
Alexander Samwer invests primarily in B2B, E-Commerce and Marketplace startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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