Florian serves as founding partner at Project A, following a tenure as managing director at Rocket Internet. He also holds board and supervisory positions across multiple companies.
Project A led the seed round for the London-based startup to fuel product development and international expansion.
"We call it giving your website a brain. Because that’s literally what we’re doing. And once you see a website that can think, you can’t go back to one that can’t."
The pre-seed round was led by Project A with backing from angel investors across major fintech firms.
"With stablecoin adoption accelerating and regulatory frameworks maturing globally, the time is right for an infrastructure rethink. Riva’s dual-rail system for businesses elegantly solves for both speed and flexibility in a market that’s still reliant on legacy processes. Niklas and Mahendra’s deep expertise in payments and financial markets positions Riva perfectly to build the next generation of payment services."
The funding will support engineering growth and artificial intelligence development as global demand for secure operational tools increases.
"Being unable to verify if a person can be trusted, if a task has been completed or work out how to pay them has been preventing successful humanitarian, aid and military missions for too long. Yet solving the issues has historically been considered too complex and too difficult, leaving organisations stuck using disparate and insecure platforms. We created Labrys to solve these tough workforce and team coordination problems in logistics, risk and humanitarian crisis response and we’ve built a talented team to tackle the hardest technical problems in this space. We’re delighted to be backed by investors who understand this mission and want to build the future of trusted infrastructure right alongside us."
Project A led the round with participation from returning investors Northzone and Seedcamp.
"At Mimo, we’ve been continually learning from these conversations to iterate and improve the platform to help both Accountants and SMBs save time, save money and control their cash flow. We look forward to working with new investors Project A and returning investors Northzone and Seedcamp as we strive towards this goal."