Mikael brings venture capital and board experience from roles at Oxx VC, Amadeus Capital Partners, and several portfolio companies. He previously founded Top Gear Advisory and Investment.
The London data science firm has secured a £15.2m Series B investment led by Oxx alongside AlbionVC.
"At PepsiCo, Trendscope has been instrumental in the development of new products and staying ahead of mainstream consumer preferences by monitoring data from Twitter, Reddit, and other online sources. During the pandemic, for example, we saw an increase in conversations and posts about seltzer makers and new flavours in lieu of consumers being able to consume their favourite beverages out of the home. This insight helped PepsiCo prioritise and fast-track the development of new products like Bubly Drops to take advantage of this growing territory."
The funding round was led by Highland Europe alongside participation from Columbia Lake Partners, Finch Capital, Latitude, and Oxx.
"As we continue on our mission to build the best rental experience in the world, bringing Highland Europe and Columbia Lake Partners on board as investors is fantastic news for Goodlord and the rental sector. About one in five people in the UK now live in the private rented sector, supported by millions more private landlords and lettings professionals, making our mission just as important today as it was when Goodlord began."
The Manchester-based enterprise software company has raised £54.4m from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and existing backers to scale its decision intelligence platform.
"We’re proud to be working with some of the biggest brands in the world. Modern businesses are complex and operate in an ever-changing world. It’s becoming impossible to run them without AI, which is enabling them to make consistently great decisions, faster and more accurately than ever before."
The Series A round was co-led by AlbionVC and Oxx to support international expansion and team growth.
"Businesses that can make full use of their data are more successful. So effective API management is becoming a core competence. The challenge for IT teams is to connect the existing data silos, plus emerging streamed data sources, and enable these to be shared in a consistent way, secured in line with best practices and easily governed. Gravitee.io offers the richest open source functionality to make that process effortless for developers and system architects. In AlbionVC and Oxx we have found partners who recognise the value that effortless API control brings to digital enterprises. With their backing, we can accelerate our mission to bring open source control of API ecosystems to the global developer community."
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