Vienna \u2014 Round2 Capi\u00adtal, the Vienna-based growth finance invest\u00adment fund and Euro\u00adpean pioneer in reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing, closes the first quar\u00adter with seven invest\u00adments. The exis\u00adting port\u00adfo\u00adlio of 13 compa\u00adnies will thus be expan\u00added by tech scale-ups from Germany, the UK, Austria, France and Sweden. Chris\u00adtian Czer\u00adnich, Round2 Capi\u00adtal foun\u00adder and CEO, explains why the alter\u00adna\u00adtive finan\u00adcing form of reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing is so in demand right now.<\/p>\n
The first quar\u00adter ended parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly successfully for the Round2 Capi\u00adtal team: 7 new compa\u00adnies now expand the port\u00adfo\u00adlio of the Vienna-based invest\u00adment fund, which is prima\u00adrily dedi\u00adca\u00adted to reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing. Invest\u00adments are made far beyond natio\u00adnal borders and scale-ups from Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, France and, of course, Austria are welco\u00admed into the family of port\u00adfo\u00adlio compa\u00adnies. The new invest\u00adments are:<\/p>\n
Logsta (AT)<\/strong>, next-gene\u00adra\u00adtion soft\u00adware-enab\u00adled logi\u00adstics company with warehouse loca\u00adti\u00adons in Austria, Germany, the UK, France and the US.<\/p>\n Projekt\u00adeins (DE)<\/strong>, B2B soft\u00adware plat\u00adform for the inte\u00adgra\u00adtion of various e\u2011commerce applications.<\/p>\n Dracoon (DE)<\/strong>, cyber\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adrity busi\u00adness cloud with the highest encryp\u00adtion standards.<\/p>\n Hamil\u00adton Apps (FR)<\/strong>, a leading work\u00adplace tech\u00adno\u00adlogy provi\u00adder offe\u00adring a wide range of solu\u00adti\u00adons within a single inte\u00adgra\u00adted platform.<\/p>\n Sales Impact Academy (UK)<\/strong>, an e\u2011learning plat\u00adform for B2B salespeople.<\/p>\n Subscrip\u00adtion-based sports commu\u00adnity (UK)<\/strong><\/p>\n Inter\u00adnet Yield (SE)<\/strong>, acqui\u00adres, owns and opera\u00adtes reve\u00adnue-gene\u00adra\u00adting websites curr\u00adently selling 40 million ad impres\u00adsi\u00adons per month.<\/p>\n Round2 Capi\u00adtal focu\u00adses on young digi\u00adtal SaaS compa\u00adnies that are in the growth phase and alre\u00adady employ 20 \u2014 150 people. As a rule, these compa\u00adnies have alre\u00adady reached the opera\u00adting brea\u00adk\u00ade\u00adven point. The majo\u00adrity of the port\u00adfo\u00adlio compa\u00adnies were able to reach this level without exter\u00adnal finan\u00adcing and are now pursuing a growth stra\u00adtegy that enables growth even without high burn rates. The Round2 port\u00adfo\u00adlio includes e.g. the German cyber secu\u00adrity company Myra Secu\u00adrity, the Swiss EduTech scale-up Aval\u00adlain or the Finnish, multi\u00adple award-winning scale-up Vainu, all of which have mana\u00adged to grow to a sales volume of between 5- 15 million euros without exter\u00adnal equity financing.<\/p>\n Reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing is a rela\u00adtively new finan\u00adcing instru\u00adment in Europe, which has been successfully estab\u00adlished not least through the work of Round2 Capi\u00adtal. The high\u00adlight of this form of growth finan\u00adcing is that the company does not have to give up any company shares, as instead the fund parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtes in the company\u2019s sales until a prede\u00adfi\u00adned repay\u00adment amount is reached. The monthly repay\u00adments auto\u00adma\u00adti\u00adcally adjust to the company\u2019s turno\u00adver and thus do not cause any cash flow problems. Since leng\u00adthy nego\u00adtia\u00adti\u00adons on company valua\u00adtions are no longer neces\u00adsary, the tran\u00adsac\u00adtion process is also signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly faster. All these advan\u00adta\u00adges make reve\u00adnue-based finance a simple, flexi\u00adble and fully trans\u00adpa\u00adrent finan\u00adcing tool.<\/p>\n The capi\u00adtal provi\u00added by Round2 is mostly used by the young compa\u00adnies to expand sales, marke\u00adting and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adliza\u00adtion. In other words, for measu\u00adres that quickly lead to sales growth.<\/p>\n Today, Round2 Capi\u00adtal mana\u00adges over 30 million euros from mainly entre\u00adpre\u00adneurs and family offices from Sweden, Germany, and Austria. Wher\u00adeby plans are alre\u00adady under\u00adway to open the fund to insti\u00adtu\u00adtio\u00adnal inves\u00adtors and signi\u00adfi\u00adcantly increase the capi\u00adtal under management.<\/p>\n How Reve\u00adnue-based Finan\u00adcing Works<\/strong><\/p>\n Reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing consists of a subor\u00addi\u00adna\u00adted loan whose repay\u00adment is linked to the reve\u00adnue of the company in which the invest\u00adment is made. This share is between 2\u20136%, depen\u00adding on the amount finan\u00adced and sales, and consists of both a repay\u00adment and a royalty compo\u00adnent. The reve\u00adnue share is paid until a certain multi\u00adple of the finan\u00adcing amount, which is between 1.35x \u2014 2.15x, has been paid. When this is reached after 4\u20136 years, the finan\u00adcing auto\u00adma\u00adti\u00adcally expi\u00adres. The finan\u00adcing volume is initi\u00adally between EUR 500,000 and EUR 2 million and can be gradu\u00adally increased to over EUR 10 million by supple\u00admen\u00adting it with equity. Since in some cases it can be well combi\u00adned with an equity invest\u00adment and even replace it, Round2 Capi\u00adtal selec\u00adtively also offers a combi\u00adna\u00adtion of these two invest\u00adment models.<\/p>\n The advan\u00adtage of reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing over other venture debt finan\u00adcing is that repay\u00adments are linked to sales and thus to the company\u2019s cash flow. In this way, this cannot become unba\u00adlan\u00adced due to the repay\u00adment obligations.<\/p>\n About Round2 Capi\u00adtal Partners<\/strong> Vienna \u2014 Round2 Capi\u00adtal, the Vienna-based growth finance invest\u00adment fund and Euro\u00adpean pioneer in reve\u00ad\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing, closes the first quar\u00adter with seven invest\u00adments. The exis\u00adting port\u00adfo\u00adlio of 13 compa\u00adnies will thus be expan\u00added by tech scale-ups from Germany, the UK, Austria, France and Sweden. Chris\u00adtian Czer\u00adnich, Round2 Capi\u00adtal foun\u00adder and CEO, explains why the alternative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1366,1369,1381,1389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-news-en","category-investors","category-private-debt-mezzanine","category-private-debt-mezzanine-financing-en","news-category-deals-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nRound2 Capi\u00adtal is a fast-growing Euro\u00adpean invest\u00adment firm with over \u20ac30 million in capi\u00adtal under manage\u00adment. Based in Vienna, Berlin and Stock\u00adholm, the company is a strong part\u00adner for Euro\u00adpean scale-ups with digi\u00adtal and sustainable busi\u00adness models. Since its incep\u00adtion in 2017, Round2 Capi\u00adtal has been pionee\u00adring reve\u00adnue-based finan\u00adcing in Europe and is active in seve\u00adral Euro\u00adpean count\u00adries, with a focus on Germany, Switz\u00ader\u00adland, Austria, UK and the Nordic count\u00adries. To date, Round2 Capi\u00adtal has inves\u00adted in 20 diffe\u00adrent compa\u00adnies. www.round2cap.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"