Fergal Mullen
co-founder and partner @ Highland Europe
Geneva, Switzerland
Fergal Mullen is a Series B investor at Highland Europe in Geneva focused on E-Commerce and Retail. Fergal Joseph Mullen is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the co-founder and partner of Highland Europe. Fergal previously worked at RSA Security as a general partner. Fergal Joseph Mullen attended the Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
Last updated:
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Industries Fergal Mullen invests in
Stages Fergal Mullen invests in
Countries Fergal Mullen invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 7 (25%)
- Retail 3 (11%)
- Internet 3 (11%)
- Software 3 (11%)
- Fashion 2 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (36%)
- Series C 6 (21%)
- Funding Round 5 (18%)
- Series D 2 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 7 (25%)
- Germany 3 (11%)
- Spain 1 (4%)
- France 1 (4%)
- Denmark 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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9fin
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9fin uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract key information from bond & loan documentation. By making data easy to search, filter and analyse, 9fin helps fixed income professionals make better, smarter decisions.Our predictive analytics help forecast key capital markets events with a high degree of accuracy (100% record in2018); these include defaults, ratings changes, refinancing & recapitalisation transactions.In 2019, 9fin's analytics, real-time news and comprehensive financial data has: - Helped Banks & Law firms win new mandates - Allowed Funds to spot trading opportunities / credit risk - Enabled Sponsors to extract maximum value from their portfolioUsed by world leading banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Backed by leading VC funds & the only fintech in Europe accepted onto Google's AI residency program. Selected for IA Velocity program, first ever accelerator run by the Investment Association whose members manage £7.7 trillion AUM | $170M / Series C / Mar 31, 2026 | |
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9fin
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9fin uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract key information from bond & loan documentation. By making data easy to search, filter and analyse, 9fin helps fixed income professionals make better, smarter decisions.Our predictive analytics help forecast key capital markets events with a high degree of accuracy (100% record in2018); these include defaults, ratings changes, refinancing & recapitalisation transactions.In 2019, 9fin's analytics, real-time news and comprehensive financial data has: - Helped Banks & Law firms win new mandates - Allowed Funds to spot trading opportunities / credit risk - Enabled Sponsors to extract maximum value from their portfolioUsed by world leading banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Backed by leading VC funds & the only fintech in Europe accepted onto Google's AI residency program. Selected for IA Velocity program, first ever accelerator run by the Investment Association whose members manage £7.7 trillion AUM | $50M / Series B / Dec 02, 2024 | |
Podimo
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Podimoa is an open podcast platform that offers a subscription service for creators. Founded in 2019, Podimo is a podcast and short-form audio platform which offers personalized recommendations to listeners, while offering creators a share of revenue via premium subscriptions. Co-founded by Morten Strunge, Nikolaj Koppel, Andreas Sachse, EvaLægdsgaard, and Sverre Dueholm, Podimo is hoping to capitalize on the rise in consumption in podcasts. | $58.5M / Series B / Sep 14, 2022 | |
THE GO-TO
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The Go-To is a brand-new online marketplace that cuts through the hassle to deliver inspired gifts that speak to every personality. | $624.2K / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2022 | |
Unibuddy
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Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions. It also changes the way universities attract, inform and recruit students by placing peer interactions and instant messaging at the core of its solutions. By embedding their tools into their websites, universities allow prospectiveapplicants to chat with their student ambassadors and join group discussions in a matter of seconds.Unibuddy platform and your students provide a ready stream of content and a deeper insight into your market’s motivations. They allow prospects wherever they are to get to know the real you and make the right decision and through online peer-to-peer connections.Unibuddy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England, UK. | $20M / Series B / Jul 07, 2021 | |
Bitmovin
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Bitmovin is a young and dynamic multimedia company. Their principal expertise is in the domain of information and communication technologies for audio-visual networks, in particular for HTTP streaming services and embedded multimedia applications. Additionally, bitmovin provides consulting and standardization services, specifically towardsISO/IEC MPEG.Bitmovin multimedia is a spin-of company of the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, where most of their experts come from, and the ALICANTE EU FP7-ICT project. Together with the University they are still investigated in all kinds of research in the field of multimedia and especially in state of the art standardization at this sector e.g. ISO/IEC MPEG. Their highly skilled and motivated employees work in their offices in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park, Building B01.Bitmovin offers API-based products to help developers solve the most complex video problems with cloud native software that runs anywhere. The company was founded in 2013 by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller and Christian Timmerer.Bitmovin is based in San Francisco, CA, USA and Klagenfurt, Austria and privately owned. The company's investors include Atomico, Dawn Capital, YCombinator (YC S15), SpeedInvest and Constantia Industries. | $25M / Series C / Apr 20, 2021 | |
Nexthink
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Nexthink is a global leader in digital experience management. The company's product allows enterprises to create highly productive digital workplaces for their employees by delivering optimal end-user experience. Through a unique combination of real-time analytics, automation and employee feedback across all endpoints, Nexthink helps ITteams meet the needs of the modern digital workplace. | $180.2M / Series D / Feb 08, 2021 | |
LoveCrafts
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LoveCrafts, a start-up which builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector. It now intends to use the capital to fuel new product development, overseas growth and the launch of its new marketplace LoveCrochet which will go live next month with further craft communities planned for later in the year. | Series C / Dec 23, 2020 | |
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Bitmovin
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Bitmovin is a young and dynamic multimedia company. Their principal expertise is in the domain of information and communication technologies for audio-visual networks, in particular for HTTP streaming services and embedded multimedia applications. Additionally, bitmovin provides consulting and standardization services, specifically towardsISO/IEC MPEG.Bitmovin multimedia is a spin-of company of the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, where most of their experts come from, and the ALICANTE EU FP7-ICT project. Together with the University they are still investigated in all kinds of research in the field of multimedia and especially in state of the art standardization at this sector e.g. ISO/IEC MPEG. Their highly skilled and motivated employees work in their offices in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park, Building B01.Bitmovin offers API-based products to help developers solve the most complex video problems with cloud native software that runs anywhere. The company was founded in 2013 by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller and Christian Timmerer.Bitmovin is based in San Francisco, CA, USA and Klagenfurt, Austria and privately owned. The company's investors include Atomico, Dawn Capital, YCombinator (YC S15), SpeedInvest and Constantia Industries. | $21.9M / Debt Financing / Nov 13, 2019 | |
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Nexthink
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Nexthink is a global leader in digital experience management. The company's product allows enterprises to create highly productive digital workplaces for their employees by delivering optimal end-user experience. Through a unique combination of real-time analytics, automation and employee feedback across all endpoints, Nexthink helps ITteams meet the needs of the modern digital workplace. | $86.4M / Series C / Dec 12, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Highland Europe
Highland Europe invests in rapidly growing European internet, mobile, and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues. They can provide acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions as well as making primary investments. Their capital enables management teams to accelerate growthand build a lasting, valuable business.Highland Europe was launched in 2012 and closely collaborates with Highland Capital Partners, an independent global venture capital firm with a twenty-seven year investment experience and offices in Boston and Palo Alto.
Highland Europe Contacts
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Anthony Zappala
Partner
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Fergal Mullen
co-founder and partner
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Gajan Rajanathan
General Partner
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Jean Tardy-Joubert
General Partner
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Samuel Brooks
Partner
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What does Fergal Mullen invest in?
Fergal Mullen invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Fergal Mullen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Fergal Mullen closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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