RackN Closes Seed-Stage Funding From EVO Venture Partners

Austin, Texas and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 26th, 2016 – RackN, a unified, self-service software platform for automating multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure lifecycle management, today announces EVO Venture Partners as a major investor. Based out of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and with offices in San Francisco and Singapore, EVO Venture Partners has joined Juniper Ventures and …

DACS raises substantial equity funding

Düsseldorf / Munich; June, 30th 2016 DACS Laboratories GmbH (DACS) and Deutsche Invest Equity Partners GmbH (DIEP) have closed a substantial financing round in June. DIEP is an integrated alternative investment manager and principal investment firm based in Munich, Germany. DACS focuses on innovating efficient and highly scalable application deployment technologies with its own top-notch …

Dutch: Financieel Dagblad Cybersecurity is hot

De euforie die de laatste jaren heerste onder investeerders in cybersecurity is even getemperd. Cybersecurity is een ratrace en de technologie veroudert snel, met alle risico’s van dien. Toch voorzien kenners dat deze markt de komende jaren zal doorgroeien. Weinig mensen zullen zo uitbundig hebben gejuicht na het hacken van Sony als Andrew Chanin. De …

Come Meet Us in 2016

Because of our position in the IT Infrastructure world, EVO Venture Partners attends numerous events in the entrepreneurial, and tech spheres. This spring we will be on the road again, so in this blog post, we will continually update you on the events that EVO Venture Partners and our ventures in 2016 are attending. SaaStr Annual – San …

EVO Venture Partners invests in German digital data transfer startup DACS Laboratories

March 4, 2016 EVO Venture Partners, a global venture builder fund, invests an undisclosed amount as series seed financing in German startup DACS Laboratories. DACS Laboratories builds solutions that aim to accelerate digital data transfer dramatically and to simplify data management. DACS Laboratories focuses on innovating highly scalable application deployment technologies. DACS addresses a broad …

5 Guidelines when raising your angel seed round

I believe it makes sense to continue my crusade against angel investors asking for terms at seed stage funding that are not best practice and warn founders getting involved in such deals. In fact, angel investors should read them as well, as not following these guidelines does not only harm the company and the founders but threatens their …

Evangelism at EVO Venture Partners

Maintaining knowledge of the current technology is one thing. Staying ahead of coming evolutions is a different ballgame altogether. To maximise our understanding of such developments, as well as to gain access to talented individuals and promising prospects, we’re actively participating in ‘user groups’, conferences, and other opportunities. This encompasses direct financial support and indirect …

The new normal – Cloud & developer enablement

BY JAN WIERSMA According to AWS CTO Werner Vogels “Cloud is now the new normal.” Where the first day keynote at AWS’s ReInvent 2015 conference was all about enabling companies to migrate their current services to the cloud, the second day keynote by Vogels was all about the ‘new normal’ – developer enablement. With new services …

Together with the founders we develop a plan to scale the startup from Seed to Series A

1. Selection: we select targets aggregated by our global scouting network as well as through our direct access to top tier opportunities. 2. Value proposition: we establish if and to what extent we are able to add value from the various skills and global resources of our team members. 3. It’s all about the the …

We Believe in a different approach of building great technology companies, our Manifesto

EVO Venture Partners is an extremely focused venture firm that helps to build the next wave of great companies in the business technology markets. We are company builders. We are not portfolio managers. We limit the number of investments we make so that we can dedicate our resources to the success of each. Our belief …