# Samuel Brooks

> Samuel Brooks is a Series B investor at Highland Europe (London) backing SaaS and E-Commerce. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Highland Europe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highland-capital-partners-europe)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/brookssam

Samuel Brooks is a Series B investor at Highland Europe in London focused on SaaS and E-Commerce. Samuel Woodworth Brooks is based out of London and is the partner of Highland Europe. Samuel previously worked at Insight Venture Partners as a vice president. Samuel Woodworth Brooks attended the Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |
| CRM | 2 | 10% |
| Fashion | 2 | 10% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 24% |
| Series C | 4 | 19% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Series E | 2 | 10% |
| Series F | 2 | 10% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LemFi | Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. Lemonade provides users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs. | $53M | Series B | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Contentsquare | Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile, and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of dataincluding content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel, and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI-powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota. | $400M | Series F | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| ME+EM | ME+EM is a British contemporary fashion brand for women offering affordable, designer-quality clothes made with unique attention to fit, fabric, and detail. | $73M | Series A | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| Red Sift | Red Sift's Digital Resilience Platform solves for the greatest vulnerabilities across the complete attack surface. By providing comprehensive coverage of an organization’s digital footprint through best-in-class discovery and monitoring, Red Sift enables users to proactively uncover threats within email, domains, brand, and the networkperimeter. Paired with sophisticated remediation capabilities, Red Sift provides organizations with the tools to shut down phishing and ensure ongoing compliance with email and web security protocols.Red Sift is a global organization with offices in North America, Australia, Spain, and the UK. It boasts an impressive client base across all industries, including Domino’s, ZoomInfo, Athletic Greens, Pipedrive, and top global law firms. Red Sift is also a trusted partner of Entrust, Microsoft, and Validity, among others. Find out more at redsift.com. | $54M | Series B | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Plentific | Plentific empowers landlords and property managers to deliver more efficient repairs and maintenance services.Plentific is a purpose-driven technology business. Since 2013, the company works with trade professionals and their property partners to transform their processes and the communities they serve. The company's platform and themarketplace is currently in use by landlords and property managers across residential, commercial and social applications throughout the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Plentific was founded by Emre Kazan and Cem Savas to make it easy to find reliable trade services and manage property repairs and maintenance. The pair believed property management could and should be better - for local trades specialists, property managers and tenants. | $100.2M | Series C | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Contentsquare | Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile, and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of dataincluding content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel, and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI-powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota. | $500M | Series E | May 25, 2021 |  |
| GetYourGuide | GetYourGuide operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. It offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. The platform sells tours and excursions, activities including cooking classes, and tickets to many tourist attractions.GetYourGuide runs a thriving and viral businesscurating, and selling tickets for running walks and other exploration experiences for people touring different parts of the world. The business model for GetYourGuide stipulates that it does not offer its tours or activities, but rather, acts as a mediator between customers and providers. The service is free for customers, but the provider of the tour has to pay GetYourGuide a percentage of its revenue.GetYourGuide, an online customer review system, enables potential customers to assess the quality of tour providers. Additionally, the platform removes providers who consistently get bad reviews from its inventory. | $121M | Convertible Note | Oct 29, 2020 |  |
| Contentsquare | Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile, and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of dataincluding content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel, and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI-powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota. | $190M | Series D | May 19, 2020 |  |
| Contentsquare | Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile, and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of dataincluding content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel, and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI-powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota. | $42M | Series B | Jan 29, 2018 |  |
| Condeco | Condeco by Eptura is a workspace platform that puts employees in control of hybrid work, enables ease of collaboration, and optimizes capacity for the best office experience. | $30M | Series A | Jun 20, 2016 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kkr) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [H14](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holding-italiana-quattordicesima-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SoftBank Vision Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank-vision-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [BlackRock Private Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock-private-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Eden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Highland Europe

VC Fund · Geneva, Switzerland

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.

5 contacts available at Highland Europe.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Zappala | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-zappala |
| Fergal Mullen | co-founder and partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fergal-mullen |
| Gajan Rajanathan | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gajan-rajanathan |
| Jean Tardy-Joubert | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-tardy-joubert |
| Samuel Brooks | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-brooks |

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## FAQ

### What does Samuel Brooks invest in?

Samuel Brooks invests primarily in SaaS, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 21 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 Samuel Brooks last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Samuel Brooks closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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