Mike Risman
Managing Partner @ Vitruvian Partners
London, United Kingdom
Mike Risman is a private equity investor at Vitruvian Partners in London focused on Internet and Travel. Michael Adam Risman is based out of London and is the managing partner of Vitruvian Partners. Mike previously worked at Farfetch as a director. Michael Adam Risman attended the Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Mike Risman invests in
InternetTravelSoftwareE-CommerceE-Learning
Stages Mike Risman invests in
Private EquitySeries CSeries DSeries ESeries F
Countries Mike Risman invests in
United KingdomIndiaSwedenFinlandUnited States
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 3 (30%)
- Travel 2 (20%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- E-Commerce 2 (20%)
- E-Learning 2 (20%)
Stage
- Private Equity 4 (40%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
- Series E 1 (10%)
- Series F 1 (10%)
Country
- United Kingdom 4 (40%)
- India 1 (10%)
- Sweden 1 (10%)
- Finland 1 (10%)
- United States 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company that provides highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU's mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere.The BYJU's family of brands includes Disney-BYJU's Early Learn,BYJU's FutureSchool, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr, and WhiteHat Jr., along with the company’s beloved flagship product, BYJU's: The Learning App. Together, BYJU's solutions support pre-K–12 education and a wide range of competitive exams.BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the crossroads of mobile, interactive content, and personalized learning methodologies. Byju's geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level, and pace of each student. In addition, BYJU’S has innovative partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners.BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital, and IFC. Since 2017, BYJU’S has completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India, and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in more than 8 languages. | $800M / Private Equity / Mar 11, 2022 | ||
| WalkMe, an SAP company, pioneered the world’s leading Digital Adoption Platform, helping organizations navigate the change brought on by technology across any application or system. Leveraging over a decade of experience, WalkMe’s platform integrates generative AI to deliver proactive, accessible, and actionable insights. Our context-awaresolutions guide users through any workflow, identifying and resolving digital friction to ensure seamless execution of critical processes across all departments. Trusted by global leaders like IBM, Nestlé, ThermoFisher Scientific, and the U.S. Department of Defense, WalkMe empowers organizations to maximize software ROI and drive people-centric digital transformation. | $90M / Series G / Dec 09, 2019 | ||
| Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $110M / Series F / May 04, 2016 | ||
| Skyscanner is a leading global travel search site, a place where people are inspired to plan and book direct from millions of travel options at the best prices.They are unbiased and free, which means that the 60 million people who use us every month can trust their comprehensive range of flight, hotel and car hire options.Their secret is intheir unique proprietary technology that connects people directly to everything the travel industry has to offer. They also power travel search for over 1200 partners through their Skyscanner for Business products.Their highly-rated free mobile app has been downloaded over 70 million times. They’re global but local and their products are available in over 30 languages and 70 currencies.Founded in 2003, they employ over 900 staff, with offices in Barcelona, Beijing, Budapest, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Miami, Shenzhen, Singapore and Sofia. Skyscanner is part of the Ctrip group.Skyscanner is always free for travellers and they never charge travellers commission. They work with their airline and online travel agent partners in a number of ways: some partners agree to give Skyscanner a commission for every booking made through us or for every time travellers visit a partner’s website. Other partners advertise on the Skyscanner website and app. They always make sure any adverts are labelled or separate from any search results so users know exactly what’s what. | $192M / Jan 11, 2016 | ||
| They are the largest financial and HR services company in Northern Europe. Size does matter, because they want to be the closest to their clients and invest in their future. | Private Equity / Oct 07, 2015 | ||
| Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $86M / Series E / Mar 04, 2015 | ||
| Established in 1975, JacTravel is a B2B hotel accommodation wholesaler and provider of inbound travel services. It holds partnerships with more than 12,500 hotels in 800 cities worldwide. The company enables customers to book hotel accommodation online at competitive rates, as well as holiday tours. | Private Equity / Jun 25, 2014 | ||
| Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $66M / Series D / May 01, 2014 | ||
| Snow Software is changing the way organizations understand and manage their technology consumption. Our technology intelligence platform provides comprehensive visibility and contextual insight across software, SaaS, hardware and cloud. With Snow, IT leaders can effectively optimize resources, enhance performance and enable operational agility in ahybrid world. | Private Equity / Aug 28, 2012 | ||
| JUST EAT's vision is 'Order takeaway the smart way', a promise to consumers and restaurants alike. To consumers Just-Eat provide convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online, and to restaurants they help improve their business by increasing their exposure and providing new revenuestreams. Today Just-Eat is the world's leader in online takeaway ordering. As of early 2012 Just-Eat has activities on four continents and more than 38 000 restaurants on their network, with more than 12 000 in the UK alone. The roots of Just-Eat originate in Denmark where the company launched in 2001 by Founder http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jesper-buch. After some initial years of boot strapped growth the company slowly started to internationalise, beginning with the UK launch in 2006. The internationalisation of the company gained momentum in 2009 when Just-Eat had their series A investment round and received £10.5 million from Index Ventures. Whilst headquartered in London, UK, Just-Eat operate with significant local teams in all their market countries and consider the energy and quality of Just-Eat's local activities critical to success. In March 2011 a second round of investment saw two leading US venture capitalists, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures, invest £30million. Greylock Partners have previously invested in Facebook, LinkedIn and Wonga. Just-Eat's parent company is Just-Eat Holdings Limited. | $81.5M / Series C / Apr 27, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Vitruvian Partners
Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments. Independent private equity firm that specialises in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the UK and elsewhere. The company backs exceptional management teams in businesses where thereis a major opportunity to create strategic value. They seek out companies where this opportunity exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”.
Vitruvian Partners Contacts
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Amit Tiwari
Managing Director
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Jussi Wuoristo
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Mike Risman
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Sophie Bower-Straziota
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Stephen Byrne
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FAQ
What does Mike Risman invest in?
Mike Risman invests primarily in Internet, Travel and Software startups, most often at Private Equity and Series C stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Mike Risman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mike Risman closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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