Philippe serves as president and founding partner at Partech Partners. He also sits on the boards of several companies, including Smartpricing, Agicap, and ManoMano.
Romain is a general partner at Partech. He previously held operating, sales, and corporate development roles across technology and engineering companies.
The Series A round was led by Target Global to fuel international expansion and team growth.
"Our bold ambition is to make payroll invisible. We believe that 10 years from now, 'payroll software' will be eliminated from the dictionaries. Invisible payroll will be a crucial element across broader platforms and thanks to our vision, we will be at the forefront of this new trend. We are also extremely pleased to have investors like Target Global join us in carrying out this vision and helping us shape the future of payroll together."
The booking platform extended its Series C fundraise to over $152m, valuing the company at more than $640m.
"We believe that professionals like barbers, stylists and therapists should be able to focus on their craft without having to worry about the daily hassles of running their businesses,"
The financing round was led by Next47 with participation from Partech, pushing the company valuation to $100m.
"This new investment fuels the scaling of Blink’s all-in-one employee retention platform in the midst of a global recruitment crisis. As labour shortages hit industries with historically high staff turnover, such as healthcare, it’s clear that wages aren’t the only factor driving employees away. Using Blink has become a competitive advantage in the battle for talent, with organizations using the app to attract and retain their frontline workforce."
Hearst Ventures led the seed round for the account-to-account payment specialist.
"The global financial ecosystem is moving rapidly away from traditional payments systems and towards open banking and real-time payments. Vyne sits at the bleeding edge of this revolution, by improving the payment experience for all stakeholders. The team’s commercial success is testament to their expertise and commitment to innovation, and we’re delighted to be supporting their continued growth."
VNV Global led the Series A round to support international expansion and product development.
"We are delighted to be partnering with Collectiv to help achieve our sustainability objectives, whilst also delivering material savings. Their innovative approach to supply chain fits well with our vision to be London’s leading boutique restaurant group and enables us to meet the growing customer demand for greater quality and traceability."
General Atlantic led a multimillion pound financing round with participation from high profile technology and beauty sector investors.
"From the day we founded Fresha, our core focus has been on offering a solution that delights our customers. That drive has continued to direct our feature development and long-term vision. The rapid growth we’re seeing comes down to having happy customers that love using Fresha,"
The seed round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners with participation from Partech, Air Street Capital, and Miele Venture.
"The story of the last 5 years for AI-first companies has been one of rapidly evolving tooling and infrastructure best practices. The very best AI-first companies are now moving from their home-grown data annotation, versioning and model lifecycle management tools to V7’s SaaS platform because it abstracts this complexity and exposes industry best practices. Companies can now iterate faster and have confidence in the robustness of their production models by building on V7."
The Series C round was co-led by Target Global, RTP Global, and Autotech Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to £27.5m.
"The car market is one of the last retail categories that has yet to shift online, with online penetration of car sales being still below 1%, while 20% of all UK retail sales are now online. Drover’s digital ‘car-as-a-service’ model is the right approach to truly build the ‘Amazon of Cars’ as it lends itself much better to an online model than does the long-term commitment, high ticket size type transaction of buying a car with cash or on finance. As a result, the last few years have seen Drover evolve and grow into a seriouscontender in the UK car retailing market. The Drover team has been agile through COVID-19 and that has enabled us to continue to show fantastic growth in a challenging time. The need for a simpler, more flexible model for car ownership is only accelerating and we’re proud to be leading that journey in the UK and France and in hopefully many more markets in the future."
The seed round was led by Global Founders Capital and Partech with backing from existing investors.
"We are excited to find partners who will accompany us on this journey to build new, employer-based trust layers for financial markets and have raised €5.6m from them"
The data privacy platform aims to accelerate international expansion and increase headcount following backing from Warburg Pincus.
"Large enterprises in regulated industries like financial services and healthcare have been early adopters of data privacy solutions, but all companies should look for ways to use data more safely and more effectively. Managing sensitive data at enterprise scale and complexity is a real challenge for even the most sophisticated data organizations. By automating the enforcement of data protection strategies, Privitar’s platform makes this achievable in any data-driven organization. We are excited to partner with Warburg Pincus as we continue to pioneer the category."
The Series B round was led by Accel with participation from Partech, Salesforce Ventures, 24Haymarket and IQ Capital.
"The world is increasingly aware of the importance of protecting private information and privacy engineering is becoming intrinsic to the way organizations manage and share data."
