Paua Ventures is a microventure capital firm in Germany that focuses on early-stage and seed investments. Founded 2010 in Berlin, Germany by Christophe Defforey, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series B, series A, and convertible notes. Its portfolio companies include Consentio, GraphCMS, Detectify, and Stripe. As of April 2020, Paua Ventures has made 49 investments. Their most recent investment was on December 19, 2019 with GraphCMS. Paua Ventures has had four exits, the most notable of which include Amorelie, Flaconi, and Producteev. The company has raised a single venture fund, Paua I. This fund was announced on December 9, 2015 and raised a total of $70M.
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Funded Companies
Relimetrics is a computer vision and machine learning software provider offering inspection and diagnostic tools.
Detectify is a Stockholm-based cybersecurity company developing tools for security analysis of web applications.
People
Anna Fishman
Employee
Christophe Defforey
Founder
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Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Actyx
Detectify
GraphCMS
GraphCMS
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Wandelbots