# Headline

> Headline is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and E-Commerce. See 506 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 506
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: Jun 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/headlinevc/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/HeadlineVC
- Website: http://headline.com

Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. It invests across geographies, leading rounds at every stage.The firm's Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, and invest locally. Its San Francisco-based Growth Fund invests globally from Series B andbeyond, working in collaboration with their Early Stage Teams. The sizes and locations of these funds make it possible for them to see local trends up close, identify winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble, and Yeahka are among the stars in Headline’s world.Headline was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$12M |
| Series A | $4.4M–$30M |
| Series B | $7.7M–$87M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 69 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 44 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 36 | 7% |
| Financial Services | 30 | 6% |
| SaaS | 27 | 5% |

280 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 109 | 22% |
| Series B | 93 | 18% |
| Seed | 75 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 44 | 9% |
| Series C | 41 | 8% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 119 | 24% |
| Germany | 28 | 6% |
| Brazil | 18 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 17 | 3% |
| France | 14 | 3% |

29 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Haug | Founding and General Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-haug |
| Christian Miele | General Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-miele |
| Conrad Chu | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conrad-chu |
| Jonathan Becker | Partner | 50 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-becker |
| Jonathan Userovici | General Partner | 42 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-userovici |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avatar Robotics | Avatar Robotics is a robotics company that offers human-supervised robot fleets for industrial and business needs. | $6.5M | Seed | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Skalar | Skalar specializes in providing automated and digital tax and accounting services for companies. | $13.7M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Housi | Housi is an online living-as-a-service on-demand housing platform. | $9.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| Taxwire | Global Sales Tax Compliance Software | $25M | Series A | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Linc | Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively. | $9.7M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Vixtra | Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods. | $9.8M | Series A | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Datamint | AI-driven infrastructure intelligence | $4.9M | Series A | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Fonoa | Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $110M | Series C | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Searchable.com | Searchable offers tools that track brand visibility on AI search platforms and search engines. The platform shows how often a brand is mentioned and where it appears in search results. Searchable provides content tools that help users create written material based on brand data and writing style. The service includes audits that point out siteissues that may affect how AI systems read a website. Searchable also gives competitive reports that compare a brand’s presence with other brands. The platform connects with traffic and search data so users can view performance in one place. | $14M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Sereact | Sereact created an adaptable AI in order to commercialise a new era of intelligent robots. They developed adaptable AI to commercialise a new era of intelligent robots. They use artificial intelligence to assist their customers in closing automation gaps and achieving new levels of cost-efficiency. | $110M | Series B | Apr 27, 2026 |  |

10 of 506 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 65 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
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- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 21 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Headline invest in?

Headline invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 506 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 Headline's check size?

Headline typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$12M at Seed, $4.4M–$30M at Series A and $7.7M–$87M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Headline participates in.

### How do I contact Headline?

Public channels for Headline include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Headline?

The team at Headline includes Andreas Haug (Founding and General Partner), Christian Miele (General Partner) and Conrad Chu (Partner), among 28 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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