Anthony Zappala
Partner @ Highland Europe
Geneva, Switzerland
Anthony Zappala is a Series B investor at Highland Europe in Geneva focused on Software and SaaS. Tony Zappalà joined as a Partner in 2013. He currently represents Highland Europe on the boards of AMCS, WeTransfer, ShopFully, Oro, ContentSquare and Talentsoft, and is involved with the investments in Malwarebytes, Intersec and Social Point. He is excited about working with passionate entrepreneurs that are making technology accessible to newmarkets and new users via great design and careful focus.Prior to joining Highland, Tony worked with Index Ventures for over 7 years, where he was part of the team which raised and invested the firm’s first dedicated Growth fund in 2007 and second fund in 2011. While at Index Tony gained extensive board experience with companies such as Privalia, Moleskine (Milan: MSK), Nasty Gal, Milestone Systems (Canon), Ozon, RPX (Nasdaq: RPXC), Telegent (Spreadtrum) and VirtualLogix (Redbend). Tony previously worked with STMicroelectronics in Corporate Development and M&A and with LEK Consulting in London and Boston.Tony is a British and Italian national, and holds an M.Eng in Electrical and Information Sciences from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters as well as getting out and doing some sport such as running, football or triathlon.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries Anthony Zappala invests in
Stages Anthony Zappala invests in
Countries Anthony Zappala invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (30%)
- SaaS 4 (20%)
- Analytics 3 (15%)
- E-Commerce 3 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (15%)
Stage
- Series B 5 (25%)
- Series C 5 (25%)
- Series A 3 (15%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
- Series E 1 (5%)
Country
- France 4 (20%)
- United Kingdom 4 (20%)
- United States 3 (15%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
- The Netherlands 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Nothing
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Nothing is a consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures smartphones, earbuds, and other connected devices. The company focuses on product integration and user experience, aiming to create a digital ecosystem through hardware and software development. | $200M / Series C / Sep 15, 2025 | |
FINBOURNE Technology
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FINBOURNE Technology was founded in December 2016 with a mission to reduce the cost of investing and increase transparency for everyone. The company has grown from seven founders to over 130 people in less than five years. Our SaaS-native solutions offer greater agility and control, designed to deliver a new standard for data management, with afaster time to market. Built as a bitemporal engine and using open APIs, LUSID® ingests and translates data across organisations’ existing operational stack and wider ecosystem. The data platform supports IBOR, ABOR, tax-lot accounting, valuation and risk workflows. While, Luminesce®, a data virtualisation engine, solves the need to find and securely gather an extended world of data in real-time, enabling deeper insights and analytics. Together, they cover a depth of critical data management processes, for start-up managers, through to global investment institutions. | $69.9M / Series B / Jun 17, 2024 | |
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Nothing
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Nothing is a consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures smartphones, earbuds, and other connected devices. The company focuses on product integration and user experience, aiming to create a digital ecosystem through hardware and software development. | $96M / Series C / Jun 28, 2023 | |
OroCommerce
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Oro Inc., founded in 2012 by industry leaders in open-source business application development, is the company behind OroCRM, OroCommerce, and OroPlatform.OroCRM, which was launched in 2014, has rapidly established itself as a disruptive force in the CRM market. The platform’s open-source nature gives multi-channel businesses the inherentflexibility they need to tailor the product to their specific business requirements, helping them achieve a true 360-degree view of their customers. OroCRM, delivered as SaaS or on-premise, offers robust customer management tools, detailed analytics and a broad spectrum of third party software integrations for all types of businesses, from retail conglomerates to marketing and customer service organizations.OroCommerce, a pioneering B2B-focused e-Commerce software platform, will redefine the benchmarks for best-in-class customer experience practices. By providing a diverse range of capabilities, such as personalization, localization, intelligent marketing tools, powerful reporting, and ground breaking segmentation, OroCommerce is the only true B2B eCommerce platform.Oro’s founding team consists of Yoav Kutner, Co-Founder and former CTO of Magento; Jary Carter, former VP of Sales and Channel of Magento; and Dima Soroka, former Lead Architect for Magento. Through many years of experience in commerce and CRM, Oro is committed to delivering innovative solutions that will further disrupt the customer experience. | $13M / Series B / Jan 19, 2023 | |
Contentsquare
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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 | |
Threads Styling
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Threads is pioneering the best luxury shopping experience in the world. They inspire their highly-engaged social media community through beautiful content featuring the latest, most desirable luxury items. They talk to their loyal clients directly via chat-based media to place orders; these can then be sent anywhere in the world – fast. In short,they’ve closed the online-offline shopping loop and they’re changing how people buy luxury fashion.At the forefront of a revolution in chat commerce, Threads is scaling fast, with technology very much at the heart of their next phrase of growth. By harnessing social networks and providing a unique personal shopping experience, they're building a data-led platform and they're looking for experienced technologists to deliver their future roadmap.Tech City UK named us a Future Fifty business, one of the UK’s fastest growing and most disruptive digital tech companies in 2017, and they are at No. 32 in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 list of the fastest growing tech companies in Britain. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 22, 2022 | |
Signal AI
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Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor theirreputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. | $50M / Series D / Dec 15, 2021 | |
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Contentsquare
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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 | |
Alkemics
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Consumer Product Goods is the biggest industry in the world, and yet, one of the most archaic and unstructured. manufacturers and retailers need to rethink their collaboration process and find new ways to adapt to a fast-changing industry landscape. Nowadays they face three major challenges: - Matching supply and demand for the millions ofproducts launched every year - Achieving operational excellence to speed up time-to-market and; - Offering an omnichannel and personalized shopping experienceTo face these challenges, the Alkemics platform enables manufacturers and retailers to: - Discover each other and foster a balanced commercial relationship in which both sides can be proactive. - Increase efficiency by accelerating product listing and go-to-market while reducing data-quality errors. - Develop a sustainable and trustful relationship in order to enrich shopper experience. | $23.7M / Series C / Jun 11, 2020 | |
WeTransfer
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WeTransfer offers a way to send files around the world through its platform. Every month, users in 195 countries send one billion files through its platform. WeTransfer was founded in 2009 and is based in the Netherlands and the US. The company's mission is to enable the effortless transfer of ideas from one creative mind to many. | $37.1M / Secondary Market / Aug 19, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
Google Ventures
4 deals together
SoftBank Vision Fund
4 deals together
Bpifrance
3 deals together
BlackRock Private Equity Partners
2 deals together
Canaan Partners
2 deals together
Crédit Mutuel Innovation
2 deals together
About Highland Europe
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.
Highland Europe Contacts
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Anthony Zappala
Partner
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Fergal Mullen
co-founder and partner
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Gajan Rajanathan
General Partner
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Jean Tardy-Joubert
General Partner
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Samuel Brooks
Partner
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What does Anthony Zappala invest in?
Anthony Zappala invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Anthony Zappala last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Anthony Zappala closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 20 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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