Heartcore Capital is a European venture capital investment firm that backs technology companies building the future of travel and consumer experiences.
Portfolio
4
companies
Byway
Byway builds flight-free travel technology that plans personalised multi-stop overland holidays.
Quell
Quell develops fitness gaming technology that combines high-intensity workouts with immersive video games.
Weezy
Weezy delivers groceries and household essentials to customers in fifteen minutes.
Orbex
Orbex develops space rockets and launch services for small satellites.
Yacine Ghalim
Partner
Yacine is a partner at Heartcore Capital. He also holds investor and board roles across several companies, including Zefir, Taster, and La Fourche.
LinkedInMax Niederhofer
General Partner
The oversubscribed round was led by Heartcore Capital with backing from Eka Ventures and angel investors.
"It was a delight to experience such overwhelming interest from investors enthusiastic about the future of flight-free travel when raising our Series A. I’m thrilled that in Heartcore and Eka we’ve found partners who believe in the joy of journey-based holidays and the potential of JourneyAI to change travel for the better,"
The funding round was led by Tencent with participation from Khosla Ventures, Heartcore Capital, Social Impact Capital and Naval Ravikant.
"People are no longer happy to wait around for deliveries, and there is strong demand for a more efficient service. Weezy customers love the friendliness of our team, the quality of our produce, and our quick, accurate delivery times. This new funding round will allow us to expand the team and our footprint to bring Weezy to more customers across the UK."
The financing round will secure the roadmap to the company's first orbital launch from Sutherland.
"Orbex is an impressive UK company which is developing a strongly differentiated and innovative launch solution for the rapidly-growing small satellite market. In Europe, they are a recognized leader with an experienced team, substantial institutional support, a growing customer list and patented technology. The private space sector remains a key future industry for both Scottish and UK governments and we’re very excited to be backing one of the most compelling examples of this evolving sector,"
Heartcore Capital led the pre-seed round, which included backing from various industry executives and angels.
"We know that people are actively looking for simpler, faster new ways to shop and we’ve seen it first hand: Weezy only just opened for business, and already we’ve had hundreds of signups without having publicised our launch. Those signups are more than doubling week on week. In the current climate it has become less viable, and even less appealing, for consumers to visit stores."
