20VC operates at the intersection of venture and media, managing a $400m fund focused on seed and Series A investments.
Portfolio
5
companies
Fyxer AI
Fyxer AI provides an automated executive assistant that manages email and meeting tasks inside Outlook and Gmail.
General Index
General Index builds technology driven commodity price benchmarks for global trade.
Bonnet
Electric vehicle charger aggregator app simplifying public charging access.
Papaya Technologies
Papaya builds a software platform to source and manage electric fleets.
LottieLab
LottieLab provides a browser-based motion design platform for digital creators.
Kieran Hill
Harry Stebbings
founder of 20VC
The investment was led by 20VC with participation from prominent angel and strategic investors.
"We’ve tried hundreds of tools, very few actually work. Fyxer AI is different. Our team loves it, and more importantly, it gives us an edge. We can now respond faster than our competition, and in Real Estate, the fastest to respond wins. It’s that simple."
The Series A round was led by 20VC and Chalfen Ventures to accelerate product development in clean energy markets.
"Energy and commodities account for around $5trillion worth of world trade, and price benchmarks are used in the majority of those contracts. Historically, these benchmarks have been created manually by journalists in traditional media organisations. The industry has found this inconsistent and expensive – often being forced to pay tens of millions of dollars for this data. This is exactly what GX is hereto disrupt! We’re bringing technology to produce better benchmarks, that objectively price the world’s trade. We are excited to work with 20VC alongside Chalfen Ventures to accelerate our expansion into the energy transition as these markets mature into tradable commodities."
Current investors including GV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and 20VC backed the round.
"We have been growing extremely quickly over the past year as thousands of people and businesses each day jump into electric vehicles desperate for an easy, simple way to charge up."
Giant Ventures led the seed financing round to help build a comprehensive electric vehicle ecosystem in Europe.
"Papaya is on a mission to electrify Europe's fleets. We are committed to empowering the electrification ecosystem by removing any barriers and connecting service providers and fleets in one single system, where anyone can plug in; creating market efficiencies instead of just company efficiencies."
The seed round was led by Point Nine with backing from 20VC and Entrepreneur First.
"I’m a big fan of sharing funny GIFs with friends, but for high quality product animations, we need a format and tool that’s fit for purpose. With LottieLab, we are decluttering the motion design process and bringing it into the 21st century. LottieLab has all the benefits of modern design tools fit for today’s product development teams; being web-based, collaborative and simple, and crucially, there’s no After Effects qualification needed to use it. This is one of the first steps we are taking towards our mission of democratising motion design for everyone, everywhere and to create a world of storytellers, making the web more fun through animations. I’m over-the-moon that Point Nine and our other investors have decided to join us on this journey."
