Highland Europe
VC Fund
Geneva, Switzerland
Highland Europe is a VC fund in Geneva focused on Software and SaaS. 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.
- Total investments:
- 177
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
- Fund size:
- $1.3B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Highland Europe invests in
Stages Highland Europe invests in
Countries Highland Europe invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $12M–$45M
- Series B
- $15M–$78M
- Series C
- $20M–$170M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 27 (15%)
- SaaS 19 (11%)
- Information Technology 15 (8%)
- E-Commerce 14 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 40 (23%)
- Series C 28 (16%)
- Series A 21 (12%)
- Funding Round 11 (6%)
- Series D 10 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 31 (18%)
- France 12 (7%)
- United States 12 (7%)
- Germany 11 (6%)
- Finland 4 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fergal Mullen
co-founder and partner
|
co-founder and partner | Total investments: 33 | Find email | |
Gajan Rajanathan
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Jean Tardy-Joubert
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Samuel Brooks
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 28 | Find email | |
Stan Laurent
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ActiveFence is a computer software company that provides an AI-based software platform that specializes in detecting malicious content online at scale. It helps and supports technology platforms and government agencies to monitor malicious activities online and offline. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $140M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Adaptyv Biosystems developing a protein engineering platform using cell-free synthetic biology and nanofluidics. | $40M / Series A / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Alice is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, andmore. Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages. | $140M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Advanced legal AI for in house legal teams | $14M / Series B / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| Advanced legal AI for in house legal teams | $70M / Series B / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| Unframe helps enterprises move beyond generic, low-accuracy AI tools that don’t deliver real business value. Its platform is designed to build tailored production-ready, AI-native solutions fast. Unframe works with each organization to pinpoint the right use case and, in about three days, delivers a fully functional solution that can be tested onsample data or the company’s own data. Only once clear value is demonstrated does Unframe move forward with licensing.The platform supports a wide range of use cases, from observability, business intelligence and analytics to extracting and abstracting unstructured data, and building proactive workflows and agents. Unframe’s platform is built from hundreds of deep technical building blocks that can be tailored and assembled using a Blueprint architecture to meet each customer’s exact needs. Every Unframe solution can run on the customer's cloud, on-premises, or as fully managed SaaS, and is LLM agnostic. | $50M / Series B / May 19, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Cellular Origins is an automation manufacturing company that provides cell and gene therapies. | $40M / Series A / Dec 09, 2025 | ||
|
Titan Operating System
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$58.1M / Series A / Dec 02, 2025 | ||
| ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs. | $105.7M / Series D / Oct 13, 2025 | ||
| See all 177 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Highland Europe invest in?
Highland Europe invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 177 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Highland Europe's check size?
Highland Europe typically joins rounds of $12M–$45M at Series A, $15M–$78M at Series B and $20M–$170M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Highland Europe participates in.
How do I contact Highland Europe?
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Who are the partners at Highland Europe?
The team at Highland Europe includes Fergal Mullen (co-founder and partner), Gajan Rajanathan (General Partner) and Jean Tardy-Joubert (General Partner), 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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