# HPE Growth

> HPE Growth is a VC fund in Amsterdam backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last fund: Apr 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9297075/
- Website: http://www.hpegrowth.com

HPE Growth is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Established in 2010, HPE Growth is a pan-European private equity firm focused on expansion/growth capital investments in technology companies throughout Northern Western Europe with assets under management in excess of EUR 500 million. HPE invests in high-growth software and internet-enabled businesses that have shaken off the risksassociated with early, venture-type investments and have an option to leverage their proven technology and the status of a (local) champion. By bringing in additional equity and active support, HPE acts as a catalyst to expansion and enables portfolio companies to execute on their vision of securing market leadership. Typically, HPE aims to deploy about EUR 10 to 40 million in equity per transaction for a meaningful minority position. Portfolio investments include companies such as, PPRO, Tiqets, eGym and Uberall. HPE’s team has diverse backgrounds with international experience in Investing (General Atlantic, TPG), Finance (Morgan Stanley, ING) and Operations (Walt Disney, Shell) and a global network supported through its regional offices in Amsterdam (HQ), Düsseldorf and San Francisco.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |
| Apps | 2 | 6% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 7 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 12% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 18% |
| The Netherlands | 4 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 9% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Annemarie Tijman | Finance Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annemarie-tijman |
| Frederic Huynen | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frederic-huynen |
| Harry Dolman | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-dolman |
| Ronald Kemmeren | Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ronald-kemmeren |
| Stefan Brugman | General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-brugman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PPRO | PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection.Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure can access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential productsfrom multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. With the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers.Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments. | $93.1M | Private Equity | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| PPRO | PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection.Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure can access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential productsfrom multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. With the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers.Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments. | $93.1M | Private Equity | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Xempus AG | Xempus is a leading European pension & life insurance distribution platform. Its software-as-a-service offering allows life insurers, insurance agents, corporates, and employees to buy and manage pension & life insurance online. They benefit from seamless information flows, user-friendly customer journeys, as well as connectivity to allrelevant stakeholders on a single software-as-a-service platform. More than 250,000 corporates, more than 55,000 insurance agents, more than 200 sales organizations and 45 life insurers are on the Xempus platform. Xempus employs more than 170 people. Offices are in Munich (headquarters), Berlin and Saarbruecken. | $70M | Series D | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| PubNub | PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy to use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives you the abilityto easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit https://www.pubnub.com to start a free trial today. | $65M | Series E | Nov 04, 2021 |  |
| EGYM | EGYM makes the gym work for everyone. They provide gym operators, trainers and members with the technology to advance the user experience and thus make gyms more profitable. There is their own EGYM cloud where they connect all hardware on the training floor (supplier independent) into one cloud and they provide trainers and members via theirTrainer App and Member App access to that data. As the strength area is typically purely mechanical they have even developed their own smart strength machines-connected to their cloud as well. | $41M | Series E | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Sendcloud | SendCloud is an all-in-one shipping platform that connects online retailers to shipping carriers to save them time and money.The platform is easy to implement and takes about five minutes of the webshops time. After integrating their module the webshop can connect with several shipping carriers.SendCloud was founded in 2012 and is based inEindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands. | $177M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| EGYM | EGYM makes the gym work for everyone. They provide gym operators, trainers and members with the technology to advance the user experience and thus make gyms more profitable. There is their own EGYM cloud where they connect all hardware on the training floor (supplier independent) into one cloud and they provide trainers and members via theirTrainer App and Member App access to that data. As the strength area is typically purely mechanical they have even developed their own smart strength machines-connected to their cloud as well. | $34M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| PPRO | PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection.Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure can access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential productsfrom multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. With the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers.Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments. | $50M | Private Equity | May 08, 2020 |  |
| PPRO | PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection.Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure can access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential productsfrom multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. With the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers.Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments. | $50M | Private Equity | May 08, 2020 |  |
| Xempus AG | Xempus is a leading European pension & life insurance distribution platform. Its software-as-a-service offering allows life insurers, insurance agents, corporates, and employees to buy and manage pension & life insurance online. They benefit from seamless information flows, user-friendly customer journeys, as well as connectivity to allrelevant stakeholders on a single software-as-a-service platform. More than 250,000 corporates, more than 55,000 insurance agents, more than 200 sales organizations and 45 life insurers are on the Xempus platform. Xempus employs more than 170 people. Offices are in Munich (headquarters), Berlin and Saarbruecken. | $27M | Series C | Apr 06, 2020 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Highland Europe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highland-capital-partners-europe) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sprints](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sprints-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [PayPal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paypal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Adveq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adveq) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does HPE Growth invest in?

HPE Growth invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at HPE Growth?

The team at HPE Growth includes Annemarie Tijman (Finance Manager), Frederic Huynen (Partner) and Harry Dolman (Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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