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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Visionaries (visionaries.vc) is a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups and positions its limited partner base as a core part of its offering. The firm describes its model as "connecting the top 0.1% with the top 0.1%" — pairing founders with experienced operators and industrialists rather than with a large in-house platform team. It states that it rejects the multi-stage, heavily industrialised model of larger venture firms, arguing that venture is an outlier business in which obsession, ambition and conviction matter more than scale.
The firm's LP and adviser network, which it calls the Visionaries cadre, includes founders and operators associated with companies such as UiPath (Daniel Dines), Miro (Andrey Khusid), Adyen (Pieter van der Does), Personio (Hanno Renner), Pigment (Eléonore Crespo), Hugging Face (Thomas Wolf) and Supercell (Ilkka Paananen), as well as figures from outside technology including footballer Mario Goetze, Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel, Selina Stihl and Sunil Bharti Mittal. It also cites relationships with European industrial families and businesses including Swarovski, Mittal, Haniel, Stihl, Henkel, Siemens, Oetker, Fiege, Viessmann and Bitburger, which it says give portfolio companies routes to enterprise customers, product validation and procurement.
Named portfolio companies include Lovable (Anton Osika), n8n (Jan Oberhauser), Tacto (Johannes Groll, Nico Bentenrieder and André Petry), Black Forest Labs (Robin Rombach and Andreas Blattmann) and Langdock, a German model-agnostic enterprise AI platform offering enterprise chat, agents, workflows, integrations and APIs.
Business model
The firm operates as a venture capital investor, raising capital from limited partners — many of whom are technology founders, operators and members of European industrial families — and deploying it into technology startups. LPs are also positioned as mentors, early customers and collaborators for portfolio companies.
Traction
Disclosed portfolio companies include Lovable, n8n, Tacto, Black Forest Labs and Langdock, the last of which the firm says has surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue.
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Market position
Positions itself as an early-stage European venture firm built around founder and industrial-family networks, contrasting itself with multi-stage firms that have scaled venture platforms like technology companies.
The firm's stated edge is its LP and adviser network rather than an in-house operating platform: founders of companies such as UiPath, Miro, Adyen, Spotify, DeepMind, Hugging Face, FlixBus and Personio alongside leaders of European industrial family businesses, which the firm says represent over 90% of Europe's most influential industrial families and provide access to enterprise buyers.
Go-to-market
The firm sources and supports investments through its cadre of LP founders and industrial families, and convenes them at its Visionaries Unplugged event series; the 2025 edition, held in Paris, listed speakers including Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Eric Schmidt, Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Xavier Niel (Iliad), Reid Hoffman, Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI), Brad Lightcap (OpenAI), Sonali de Rycker (Accel), Taavet Hinrikus (Wise, Plural), Roxanne Varza (Station F), Victor Riparbelli (Synthesia), Harry Stebbings (20VC), Zanny Minton Beddoes (The Economist) and French Minister for AI and Digital Clara Chappaz.
Technology founders building high-growth companies, particularly in Europe, including in enterprise AI and industrial software.
Geography
Europe-focused, with portfolio companies founded in Germany and an event presence in Paris.
Compiled by commissioned research from 3 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsThe firm convenes its LP and founder network at Visionaries Unplugged; the 2025 speaker line-up included Demis Hassabis, Eric Schmidt, Dario Amodei, Xavier Niel, Reid Hoffman, Arthur Mensch, Brad Lightcap and others, with the most recent edition held in Paris.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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primary sources listed
- Exit Visionaries Clubvisionaries.vc · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Exit Visionaries Club do?
- European venture capital firm backing founders and connecting them with tech and industrial-family entrepreneurs as LPs.
- Who are Exit Visionaries Club's investors?
- Exit Visionaries Club's investors include BLN Capital, KfW Capital.