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Expedition Hosts Portfolio Company Founders & CEOs at Oxford Summit

We had a blast hosting the Founders and CEOs from across Expedition’s portfolio companies together in Oxford! Thanks to everyone for making it an unforgettable few days and for all the learnings shared. A few highlights: 14 rapidly growing bootstrapped software companies sharing challenges and learnings together in unique surroundings Mike Ettling from Unit4 andContinue reading “Expedition Hosts Portfolio Company Founders & CEOs at Oxford Summit”

Expedition Welcomes Steve Twomey as Partner, Establishing Transatlantic Footprint

Expedition Growth Capital welcomes software growth equity investor Steve Twomey as Partner Boston, Massachusetts and London, United Kingdom, 19 April 2024: Expedition Growth Capital (“Expedition”) is pleased to announce that Steve Twomey has joined as a Partner and launched the firm’s Boston office. Prior to Expedition, Steve spent 12 years at Summit Partners, backing andContinue reading “Expedition Welcomes Steve Twomey as Partner, Establishing Transatlantic Footprint”

Expedition Closes Second Fund at €250 Million Hard Cap, Continuing Focus on Ambitious Bootstrapped Software Companies 

London, 4 April 2024: Expedition Growth Capital (“Expedition”), a leading software specialist growth equity firm, today announced the closing of its second fund, Expedition Growth Capital II (“Fund II”), at the hard cap of €250 million ($270 million). Fund II will continue Expedition’s strategy of partnering with ambitious, rapidly growing European software companies that haveContinue reading “Expedition Closes Second Fund at €250 Million Hard Cap, Continuing Focus on Ambitious Bootstrapped Software Companies “

BoondManager raises €32 million to accelerate IT services companies’ performance in France and internationally

• Founded in Brest in 2009, BoondManager streamlines the daily activities of recruiters, sales teams, administrative staff, and executives through a collaborative and intuitive platform. • Bootstrapped and profitable since its inception, BoondManager now boasts over 1,500 clients (IT services companies and consulting firms), 80,000 users, and maintains a growth rate exceeding 30% annually. •Continue reading “BoondManager raises €32 million to accelerate IT services companies’ performance in France and internationally”

Bootstrapped for 8 years, Xensam has now snapped up $40M for AI that manages software assets

Xensam, an enterprise software asset management platform, today announced a $40 million growth investment from Expedition Growth Capital. The previously bootstrapped company will use the funding to invest in AI product development and expand operations in the US and Europe. The following article was published in TechCrunch on 9 February 2024. Software asset management —Continue reading “Bootstrapped for 8 years, Xensam has now snapped up $40M for AI that manages software assets”

Oliver Thomas: Bootstrapped European Software Investing

Oliver Thomas, Expedition’s Founder and Managing Partner, sat down with Rick Buhrman and Paul Buser from Sator Grove Holdings for the Art of Investing podcast. Oliver shares what we find so compelling about bootstrapped software companies. He also discusses where Expedition Growth Capital fits in the 50-year family tree of growth equity firms – a specialist partner for European bootstrapped founders scaling through €4-10mContinue reading “Oliver Thomas: Bootstrapped European Software Investing”

Rentman raises $22 million from Expedition Growth Capital

Rentman, a global software company providing SaaS solutions for the events and media production industry, today announced a $22 million (€20 million) growth equity investment from Expedition Growth Capital. The investment, Rentman’s first external capital since inception, will accelerate new customer-oriented investments, strategic acquisitions and Rentman’s platform development roadmap. Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 4, 2023Continue reading “Rentman raises $22 million from Expedition Growth Capital”

Software Leaders: Netskope’s Marilyn Miller on talent reviews and building an org for success

In our Software Leaders series, proven operators from the world’s top software companies share learnings and resources for teams earlier in their growth journey. This edition was based on a working session held between Expedition operating advisor, Marilyn Miller, and several leaders from our portfolio companies. Marilyn has over 25 years’ experience as a globalContinue reading “Software Leaders: Netskope’s Marilyn Miller on talent reviews and building an org for success”

Factbird raises $16 Million from Expedition Growth Capital and EIFO to boost international growth

Factbird, a leading manufacturing intelligence software provider, today announced a $16 million growth investment from Expedition Growth Capital and The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO). The investment will accelerate the company’s global growth and product development.  23 November 2023 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – The Danish tech company Factbird, which supplies intelligent, cloud-based technology for the optimizationContinue reading “Factbird raises $16 Million from Expedition Growth Capital and EIFO to boost international growth”

Software Leaders: Blue Prism’s Ijoma Maluza on scaling a finance function on the path to a $1.6B exit

In our Software Leaders series, proven operators from the world’s top software companies share learnings and resources for teams earlier in their growth journey. This edition was based on a working session held between Expedition operating advisor, Ijoma Maluza, and several leaders from our portfolio companies. Ijoma was CFO at UK-founded Blue Prism, an RPAContinue reading “Software Leaders: Blue Prism’s Ijoma Maluza on scaling a finance function on the path to a $1.6B exit”

After bootstrapping for 8 years, accounting startup Dougs raises $27 million from Expedition

Dougs, a leading digital accounting platform for small and medium businesses, today announced a €25 million growth investment from Expedition Growth Capital. The investment, Dougs’ first external capital, will accelerate the company’s product development and go-to-market expansion across France and continental Europe. The following article was published in TechCrunch on 5 July 2023. Dougs, aContinue reading “After bootstrapping for 8 years, accounting startup Dougs raises $27 million from Expedition”

Ringover raises €20 million to revolutionise sales performance and customer satisfaction

Ringover initially partnered with Expedition in December 2020. Since then, Ringover has quadrupled its ARR and today is announcing €20 million of new funding led by Orange Ventures, Large Venture (Bpifrance) and Expedition. Paris, 7 June 2023: We are excited to announce the completion of Ringover’s €20 million financing round. This new round of fundingContinue reading “Ringover raises €20 million to revolutionise sales performance and customer satisfaction”

Expedition Appoints Software Industry Leaders as Operating Advisors

Expedition welcomes four Operating Advisors with deep experience in building category-defining software companies London, 16 May 2023: Expedition Growth Capital (“Expedition”) is today pleased to announce the appointment of four Operating Advisors. Ijoma Maluza, Marilyn Miller, Pietro Ferrari and Udi Ledergor bring a wealth of operating expertise from their roles in building category-defining software companies,Continue reading “Expedition Appoints Software Industry Leaders as Operating Advisors”

Software Leaders: Gong’s Udi Ledergor on scaling demand gen for enterprise sales

In our Software Leaders series, proven operators from the world’s top software companies share learnings and resources for teams earlier in their growth journey. This edition was based on a working session held between Expedition operating advisor, Udi Ledergor, and several leaders from our portfolio companies. Udi has led marketing at Israel-founded Gong for overContinue reading “Software Leaders: Gong’s Udi Ledergor on scaling demand gen for enterprise sales”

Expedition makes €21m growth investment in Pinpoint

Pinpoint, a leading talent acquisition platform, secures €21 million growth investment from Expedition Growth Capital. The investment, Pinpoint’s first external capital, will accelerate the company’s product development and go-to-market expansion across the US and UK. London, 30 March 2023: Pinpoint a fast-growing talent acquisition software company that helps in-house recruitment teams attract, hire and onboardContinue reading “Expedition makes €21m growth investment in Pinpoint”

Expedition Welcomes Will Sheldon as Partner

Expedition Growth Capital welcomes software growth equity investor Will Sheldon as Partner London, 21 March 2023: Expedition Growth Capital (“Expedition”) is pleased to announce that Will Sheldon has joined the firm as a Partner. Mr. Sheldon brings over 10 years of growth equity and software investment experience across Europe and Israel, most recently as aContinue reading “Expedition Welcomes Will Sheldon as Partner”

Lempire and Expedition’s partnership

In late 2021, Expedition delivered a €30 million secondary investment in Lempire. Co-founder Guillaume Moubeche says, “In the last 3.5 years I’ve met with a lot of investors, however, very few investors actually stand out with their initial approach. “But the first email I received from Oliver, managing partner at Expedition Growth Capital, really gotContinue reading “Lempire and Expedition’s partnership”

Oktopost and Expedition’s partnership

The founders of Oktopost, Daniel Kushner and Liad Guez, created the first and only dedicated platform for B2B organisations to manage and quantify the value of social media marketing in terms of lead generation, pipeline influence, customer acquisition, and ROI. After eight years of highly successful bootstrapping, we joined forces with Oktopost to help theContinue reading “Oktopost and Expedition’s partnership”

Storykit and Expedition’s partnership

Over the last decade, video has become an essential part of every company’s communication. That’s why Peder Bonnier and Fredrik Strömberg developed Storykit, a video creation platform that removes the cost and complexity of creating videos. It enables storytellers to quickly and easily create a wide variety of videos without specialist production teams. The StorykitContinue reading “Storykit and Expedition’s partnership”

Omilia and Expedition’s partnership

Twenty years ago, Dimitris Vassos and Pelias Ioannidis started Omilia in a garage, with little more than a passion to help businesses deliver better customer interactions. Today, Omilia has grown to be a leader in speech recognition and conversational AI technologies, and we’re helping the team to deliver on their rapidly expanding business opportunities. DimitrisContinue reading “Omilia and Expedition’s partnership”

Ringover and Expedition’s partnership

With Web Real Time Communications technology (WebRTC) finally coming of age in 2014, Jean-Samuel Najnudel and Renaud Charvet knew it was the right time to develop and launch Ringover, a simple, intelligent, easy-to-use cloud-based contact centre and communications platform. In December 2020, we invested in Ringover, to support research and development, and help the teamContinue reading “Ringover and Expedition’s partnership”

Expedition invests in digital experience platform, Kentico, and headless CMS platform, Kontent.ai

We’re pleased to announce our investment in Kentico, a digital experience platform, and Kontent.ai, a cloud-based headless CMS platform for B2B content management. Kontent.ai was founded by Kentico as an internal startup, in response to the increasing demand for headless content management – where a content management system (CMS) is primarily used as a dataContinue reading “Expedition invests in digital experience platform, Kentico, and headless CMS platform, Kontent.ai”

Expedition invests $10m in video creation company Storykit

Storykit, the leading video creator in the Nordics, announced today it has raised $10 million in a growth funding round led by Expedition Growth Capital. London and Stockholm, 16 December 2021: Storykit was founded in 2018 by Fredrik Strömberg and Peder Bonnier. By building the complete video creator they aim to enable everyone who canContinue reading “Expedition invests $10m in video creation company Storykit”

Expedition invests in conversational AI leader Omilia

Expedition is pleased to welcome Omilia, with its industry leading conversational AI platform for enterprise contact centres, to our portfolio of rapidly growing European software companies. Omilia has built a market leading automated customer-care platform, driving customer satisfaction and operational efficiency for the contact centre operations of enterprise customers. Omilia offers better than human semantic accuracy and intent recognition for a wide variety ofContinue reading “Expedition invests in conversational AI leader Omilia”

Expedition invests €20m in customer engagement platform Batch

Founded in 2015 by Simon Dawlat and Antoine Guénard, Batch’s team have built a push notification market leader. Their technology is present on 99% of French mobile phones and handles 400 billion messages for its 300 enterprise clients, including Oui.sncf, LVMH, and Société Générale. Expedition is delighted to be partnering with Simon, Antoine and their team atContinue reading “Expedition invests €20m in customer engagement platform Batch”

Expedition invests $20m in B2B social media marketing platform Oktopost

Oktopost Secures $20 Million in Growth Equity Funding for B2B Social Media Marketing Platform Funding from Expedition Growth Capital will accelerate product roadmap, expand customer success and grow sales & marketing resources to capitalise on burgeoning demand Tel Aviv and London, July 22, 2021 — Oktopost, the world’s only fully integrated platform for B2B socialContinue reading “Expedition invests $20m in B2B social media marketing platform Oktopost”

Expedition invests €10m in contact centre platform Ringover

Ringover has seen phenomenal growth and demand for its product since 2018, with revenues increasing over 800% and more than 10,000 companies now opting for Ringover’s easy-to-use software which integrates with top CRM and Helpdesk tools to boost productivity. The company has added tech tools such as real-time statistics, supervision and coaching features to improveContinue reading “Expedition invests €10m in contact centre platform Ringover”