# Berggruen Holdings

> Berggruen Holdings is a VC fund backing Transportation and Software. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/berggruenholdings/?trk=similar-pages_result-card_full-click
- Website: http://www.berggruenholdings.com

Berggruen Holdings is an investment firm takes a long-term, value-oriented, often contrarian view. It prefers to build organically and through acquisitions, partnering with management, as opposed to quick, opportunistic exits. Depending on the opportunity and asset class, Berggruen Holdings is prepared to make relatively small investments as wellas equity commitments of up to $100 million in any one transaction.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Berggruen Holdings. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Berggruen Holdings. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/berggruen-holdings?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$29M |
| Series A | $14M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Transportation | 5 | 17% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 13% |
| FinTech | 3 | 10% |
| Big Data | 3 | 10% |

68 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 33% |
| Private Equity | 6 | 20% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 3 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 20% |
| India | 4 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yigal Zemah | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yigal-zemah |
| Brian Sean | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-sean |
| Christy Zhan | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christy-zhan |
| Eric Hanson | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-hanson |
| Jared Bluestein | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-bluestein |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beauhurst | Beauhurst – formerly UKFunders – was founded in 2010 by Stephen Bence and Toby Austin. Their philosophy is simple. They believe that by providing organisations with high-quality data, tools and analysis they can help get deals done and companies growing – great for advisors, great for businesses, great for the economy. | $9.5M | Debt Financing | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Fusion Transport | Fusion Transport offers domestic and international supply chain services and solutions. |  | Private Equity | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| The Data Foundation | Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos | $29.3M | Seed | May 17, 2023 |  |
| Thunder Funding | Thunder Funding provides fleet owner-operators with fuel advances, fuel cards, insurance, compliance, and more. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| iLoF | iLoF - Intelligent Lab on Fiber is a patented photonics and Artificial Intelligence system identifies unique features of various gold-standard biomarkers, capturing their signature on a cloud-based library. | $4.1M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| prePO | prePO is a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to speculate on the value of any pre‑IPO company or pre‑token project. | $2.1M | Private Equity | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| prePO | prePO is a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to speculate on the value of any pre‑IPO company or pre‑token project. | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Marvel Fusion | Marvel Fusion is a developer of fusion energy technology used to offer environment-friendly and safe energy. Its reactor is based on the short pulse, high energy, and electrically efficient laser that is suited for commercializing baseload fusion electrical power helping consumers to access clean, safe, and reliable energy sources.The company wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern. | $40M | Series A | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Sentz Global | MobileCoin is a cryptocurrency platform that develops P2P payment tokens and digital payment systems for mobile. It combines privacy, security, and distributed trust with a great user experience. MobileCoin is designed so that a mobile messaging application like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Signal could integrate with a MobileCoin wallet. | $66M | Series B | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Firebird Grove | Firebird Grove is a real estate investment company that modernizes, buys, and manages assets on a medium-to-large scale. They create customized institutional investment portfolios for clients. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BACKED VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backed-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Possible Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/possible-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Social Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Caballeros Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caballeros-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crane Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crane-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Berggruen Holdings invest in?

Berggruen Holdings invests primarily in Transportation, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Private Equity stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Berggruen Holdings's check size?

Berggruen Holdings typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$29M at Seed and $14M–$70M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Berggruen Holdings participates in.

### How do I contact Berggruen Holdings?

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### Who are the partners at Berggruen Holdings?

The team at Berggruen Holdings includes Yigal Zemah (Managing Director), Brian Sean (Team Member) and Christy Zhan (Chief Financial Officer), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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