Sprints
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Sprints is a VC fund in London focused on Marketplace and Financial Services. Sprints invest in technology-enabled growth companies with proven business models, strong and durable market positions, and excellent teams. Over the last two decades, the team has invested over €2.5bn in promising European tech businesses, many of which have grown to become global champions.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $614M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sprints invests in
Stages Sprints invests in
Countries Sprints invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series C
- $70M–$250M
- Series E
- $140M–$800M
- Private Equity
- $30M–$180M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Marketplace 6 (21%)
- Financial Services 5 (17%)
- SaaS 4 (14%)
- Software 4 (14%)
- E-Commerce 4 (14%)
Stage
- Series C 4 (14%)
- Series E 3 (10%)
- Private Equity 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
- Series B 2 (7%)
Country
- Sweden 7 (24%)
- United States 4 (14%)
- United Kingdom 3 (10%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Miauton
Investment manager
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Investment manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Clémentine Bouju
Investment Associate
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Investment Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Henrik Persson
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Henrik Persson
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Filip Hedin
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Modular Finance was founded in 2013 by Petter Hedborg and Måns Flodberg previously been behind investing platform Introduce founded in parallel with studies at the School, and was sold to Remium 2012. CTO of Modular Finance Rasmus Holm who has background from Netlight and Spotify. On the owner side are, in addition founder and CTO, Rite Venturesthat have been early investors including Unibet, Neonet and Nebula.Modular Finance has the ambition to be a leading player in the development of new digital tools to the financial market. By combining a genuine passion for both the stock market as an IT goal is to create the ultimate tool for companies and investors in both existing and new niches. Learn more about their products via the menu above! | Dec 08, 2023 | ||
| Teamtailor is developing an employer branding platform. They help SMEs market themselves as an attractive workplace, engage their employees and improve their recruiting process. All in one easy to use web serviceThey aim to work with companies that take recruiting seriously, wants to be seen as an attractive workplace, and believes that this iskey to successful recruiting. They will always deliver a service that is modern, innovative and will help you market your company as an attractive workplace. They want to change the HR industry. Times are changing, and so is the HR industry. It’s time to turn HR into heroes! | $10.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 30, 2022 | ||
| Planhat is a customer platform built to give insights, manage workflow and drive customer experience. Planhat is helping hundreds of modern technology companies worldwide center their business around their customers in order to maximize customer success and customer lifetime value.Built for everyone from the CSM to the C-Suite, the platformallows you to unify your customer data, to set goals and ideal outcomes, and to enhance the customer journey with features like playbooks, automation and collaboration. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2014 and has a team of 100+ people across Europe, North America, South America, and APAC. Read more at www.planhat.com. | $50M / Series A / Apr 21, 2022 | ||
| Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England. | $100M / Series B / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics. The company brings refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 13 countries (including the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently, Portugal, Japan, Finland, and Ireland). It employs ateam of 480 employees and counting across its 4 offices located in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Bordeaux.Launched in 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is headquartered in Paris, France. | $509.7M / Series E / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| Book Direct is an online service that was founded in 2000 with the aim to provide a service that manages reservation by phone or Internet service providers. The idea was born of Hans Hansson Julin. Since then, the service has been developed in collaboration with service providers from several industries to today deliver a unique and user-friendlybooking service. | $22M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England. | $112M / Series B / Nov 23, 2021 | ||
| Affinity is the AI-first private capital CRM that turns relationship intelligence into action across the investment lifecycle. Built on a decade of proprietary relationship and deal data, Affinity automatically captures interactions, maps your firm's network, and surfaces the connections that move deals forward. Ascend, Affinity’s agentplatform, handles the procedural work at every deal stage so teams can focus on the judgment-intensive work that drives returns. Trusted by more than 3,300 private capital firms, Affinity transforms relationship capital into a measurable competitive advantage. Powered by 31B+ interactions and 130B+ relationships, Affinity helps firms uncover opportunities sooner, move with greater conviction, and build an intelligence layer that compounds over time. | $80M / Series C / Sep 09, 2021 | ||
| Chrono24 operates as a marketplace for luxury watches. Chrono24 has been reshaping the global watch market since 2003. More than 3,000 professional dealers and 30,000 private sellers list over 500,000 watches on the platform. Chrono24 attracts more than 20 million watch enthusiasts every month from over 120 countries. | $118M / Series C / Aug 11, 2021 | ||
| See all 29 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Sprints invest in?
Sprints invests primarily in Marketplace, Financial Services and SaaS startups, most often at Series C and Series E stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Sprints's check size?
Sprints typically joins rounds of $70M–$250M at Series C, $140M–$800M at Series E and $30M–$180M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sprints participates in.
How do I contact Sprints?
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Who are the partners at Sprints?
The team at Sprints includes Alex Miauton (Investment manager), Clémentine Bouju (Investment Associate) and Henrik Persson (Founder and Managing 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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