Kennet Partners is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom. It also operates an additional office in San Mateo, California, United States. The firm was founded by Michael Elias in 1997. As of August 2019, Kennet Partners has funded 99 companies and has 17 active companies in its portfolio. The firm specializes in financing companies at the growth stage and those that are based in Europe and North America. Kennet Partners also prefers to fund companies operating in technology-enabled business services.
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Dan Taylor
March 9, 2021
Tech.eu
Work management software provider Scoro has closed a $16.4 million Series B funding round and plans expansion into US, APAC, and more French and Spanish speaking markets. The round was led by Kennet Partners and includes investments from Columbia Lake Partners, Inventure, Livonia Partners and Tera Ventures. As part of the deal London-based Kennet Partners' [...]
Mike Butcher
February 18, 2021
TechCrunch
With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic. One of those was Grip, previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). Since last year, Grip moved into an [...]
Mike Butcher
February 18, 2021
TechCrunch
With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic. One of those was Grip, previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). Since last year, Grip moved into an [...]
Mike Butcher
July 2, 2020
TechCrunch
Venture capital is "not the only fruit" for entrepreneurs, as the often quieter 'Growth Capital' can also see great returns for entrepreneurs who prefer to retain a lot of ownership and control but are also willing to bootstrap over a longer period in order to reach revenues and profits. With the COVID-19 pandemic pushing millions [...]