TA Capital
VC Fund
Houston, United States
TA Capital is a VC fund in Houston focused on Software and Internet. From its active funds TAC currently invests in Europe and the USA. They invest in all stages (seed, early and growth) of start-ups with capable teams and scalable business models. Their investment sizes go from as low as $200,000 to as much as $15 milion per transaction. They like opportunities in e-commerce, Internet, digital life and software domains. They like to create and shape new markets. They are unconventional, caring and driven, and very fast. They are honest and fair in their daily dealings and in their transactions. They honor their commitments and deliver on their promises, on time. They see it their mission to provide entrepreneurs with the resources required to grow their companies and they exclusively partner with teams who share their values.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries TA Capital invests in
Stages TA Capital invests in
Countries TA Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$2.6M
- Series A
- $1.3M–$7M
- Series B
- $2.6M–$8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (23%)
- Internet 5 (13%)
- SaaS 4 (10%)
- Logistics 4 (10%)
- E-Commerce 4 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (25%)
- Series A 8 (20%)
- Series B 4 (10%)
- Funding Round 4 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (10%)
Country
- Germany 11 (28%)
- United States 10 (25%)
- Israel 3 (8%)
- Belgium 2 (5%)
- Malaysia 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dr. Marcus Englert
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
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Elena Sorg
Office Manager
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Office Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Fred van den Bosch
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Katja Nettesheim
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lars Ditrich
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Description is an AI-powered tool that generates product descriptions for e-commerce businesses. Upload a product image or input features, and receive compelling descriptions instantly. | $150K / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2024 | ||
| Graylog is an AI-powered SIEM and log management software. It combines scalable log management with explainable AI that summarizes dashboards, prioritizes real risks, and automates investigation workflows. Its products include Graylog Security, Enterprise, API Security, and Open software. | $5M / Series B / Dec 05, 2018 | ||
| Mynaric specializes in manufacturing laser communication equipment designed for high-speed, long-distance wireless data transmission across various platforms, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), high-altitude platforms (HAPs), satellites, and ground stations. Their product portfolio includes the CONDOR optical communicationsterminals (OCT) for satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), which are capable of establishing reliable broadband connections. Additionally, Mynaric offers solutions for airborne and terrestrial applications, facilitating high data rate communication between moving objects. | Post-IPO Equity / May 11, 2018 | ||
| Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation.The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowestdelivery costs in the industry.Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | $2.6M / Seed / Jan 04, 2018 | ||
| Hoard’s app enables any smartphone user to easily and conveniently pick up deliveries and make exchanges of small items through registered third party operated “pickup-points. | $120K / Seed / Sep 12, 2016 | ||
| Talixo is revolutionising B2B ground transportation with innovative proprietary technology that integrates seamlessly with all corporate platforms such as Amadeus, Concur and Onesto.Their technology is fully customisable and provides total compliance for all individual corporate travel policies. Now operating in >750 cities globally andgrowing exponentially, Talixo is fast becoming the go to for all the ground transportation needs of Fortune 500 companies, Airlines, Travel Agencies and many other strategic partners. Talixo is backed by Private, Institutional and Strategic investors including Deutsche Bahn, Amman Group and TA Capital. | $667.9K / Convertible Note / May 31, 2016 | ||
| AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual workneeded to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%.The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast.We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting.Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically. | $1.4M / Series A / May 06, 2016 | ||
| Zyncd is the smart CV for the gig economy. Helping freelancers and professionals to show better their skills online. | Apr 16, 2016 | ||
| Zyncd is the smart CV for the gig economy. Helping freelancers and professionals to show better their skills online. | $600K / Seed / Apr 16, 2016 | ||
| Riverbed Technology (Riverbed) develops solutions to the fundamental problems associated with information technology (IT) performance across wide area networks (WANs). Riverbed’s family of performance products include solutions for branch offices, mobile workers, private data centers, private clouds and cloud computing. The Company’s productsinclude Steelhead products and Cascade product line. The Company’s solution, the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), consists of hardware and software products that address the fundamental performance limitations of distributed computing environments. Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products enable its customers to improve the performance of their applications and access to their data across WANs, by increasing transmission speeds by 5 to 50 times and in some cases by up to 100 times. In July 2011, the Company acquired Zeus Technology Ltd. and Aptimize Limited. | Jan 19, 2016 | ||
| See all 40 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does TA Capital invest in?
TA Capital invests primarily in Software, Internet and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does TA Capital invest in?
TA Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$2.6M at Seed, $1.3M–$7M at Series A and $2.6M–$8M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not TA Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds TA Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at TA Capital?
The team at TA Capital includes Dr. Marcus Englert (General Partner), Elena Sorg (Office Manager) and Fred van den Bosch (General Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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