Connect Ventures
Venture capitalLondon · Pre-Seed–Series A · 5 people tracked
Investment thesis
Connect Ventures is a partner-only, high-conviction investment team focused on product founders across Europe. Investing since 2012 at the pre-seed and seed stages, the firm leads or co-leads rounds supporting companies from pre-product through product-market fit. It positions itself as a product specialist, targeting large categories including AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, data and infrastructure, fintech, health, and vertical networks. The team comprises high-conviction investors, product specialists, community experts, experienced operators, and finance professionals united by a belief in the power of product to transform lives.
Team · 5 people
from public directories
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Connect Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 7 of 22 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×5Developer Tools ×4SaaS ×3Enterprise Software ×2Marketing Tech ×2AdTech ×1Creator Economy ×1Data & Infrastructure ×1
HQs:France×2United Kingdom×2United States×1
Investments · 22 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 14 dated
ai-coustics provides an audio reliability layer with speech technology such as Voice Focus, which removes background noise and other voices to improve transcription accuracy and keep voice agents responsive in noisy environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Arne Corvin Jaedicke(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Fabian Helmut Seipel(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardBORIS GOLDEN(Director)in
Board seatSitar Teli· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsInovia CapitalAcurio VenturesCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Partech Ventures
Cino provides a shared virtual card solution that allows groups to automatically split expenses among members based on customizable ratios, with transactions processed through Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Fintech
Co-investorsBalderton CapitalHeartfelt CapitalSie VenturesTera Ventures
Dessn offers a design-to-code tool that connects to a product's repository and uses AI to extract design components and generate a cloud-hosted design environment built around the codebase.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechSaaSSector AgnosticLondon, GB
Marcus Persson(Co-founder)inNils Nygren Liljenstrand(Co-founder & CPO)inGabriella Hachem(Co-founder)Nim(Co-founder)
Co-investorsBetaworksFJ LabsN49PVentures TogetherBallou CapitalOnstage
Dessn is a design and prototyping tool that connects to a team's production codebase (read-only) and turns it into a collaborative design environment, letting designers and non-developers create high-fidelity prototypes as live branches without opening an IDE.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsBetaworksConnect VenturesN49P
Ewake builds AI SRE (site reliability engineering) agents that reason through production incidents like a senior engineer, turning systems into a live, traversable map to guide actions in production.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareParis, FR
Pooné Mokari(Co-Founder & CEO)inOmid Chehrehgosha(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investors50 PartnersNotion CapitalAgoranov
Pretty Great is a creative studio that designs brand identities, websites, and pitch decks for early-stage startups and venture capital funds.
Creator EconomyMarketing Tech
Co-investorsConnect Ventures
Upstream is a team communication and collaboration platform designed to help professionals manage messages, tasks, and decision-making workflows across their organization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSParis, FR
Louis Lecat(Founder)inJonathan Tiret(Founder)in
Co-investorsRoosh VenturesY CombinatorConnect Ventures
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesUpstream · ycombinator.com · Jun 22, 2026
Dessn · techcrunch.com · May 12, 2026
Principals & officers · per Companies House
what is this? ⓘLLP designated member · since 2019
LLP designated member · since 2013
Rory John Stirling — 25–50% of voting rights, right to share surplus assets 25 to 50 percent limited liability partnership
Pietro Bezza — 25–50% of voting rights, right to share surplus assets 25 to 50 percent limited liability partnership
Sitar Hemendra Teli — 25–50% of voting rights, right to share surplus assets 25 to 50 percent limited liability partnership
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Connect Ventures made?
- Connect Ventures has 20 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Connect Ventures invest at?
- Connect Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Connect Ventures's typical check size?
- Connect Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $5M.
- What sectors does Connect Ventures focus on?
- Connect Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
- Where is Connect Ventures located?
- Connect Ventures is headquartered in London, GB.
- Does Connect Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Connect Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Connect Ventures co-invest with?
- Connect Ventures most often shares deals with Connect Ventures, Balderton Capital, N49P, among 13 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the team
Samsung Next Meets @ Home: Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures
Samsung Next · Sitar Teli · youtube.com
[Trailer] Searching for Mana - Rory Stirling - Partner Connect Ventures
Searching for Mana · Rory Stirling
[PreMoney MENA 2015] Connect Ventures, Sitar Teli: "Portfolio By Design: Picking Co's From A UX POV"
500 Global · Sitar Teli
Pietro Bezza - Connect Ventures
Capital On Stage · Pietro Bezza
Lightning talk by Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures)
Startup Sauna · Sitar Teli
Interview - Sitar Teli (Managing Partner at Connect Ventures)
mindthebridgeTV · Sitar Teli
Images
Co-investors · 12
Notion Capital is a European early-stage venture investor focused on business software companies, run by a team of former entrepreneurs and operators.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating its investment staff as a single global unit.
Emergence Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders building B2B software companies, from early-stage cloud and SaaS pioneers to AI-native innovators.
Point Nine is an early-stage venture capital firm that has operated for nearly 15 years, emphasizing focus over scale.
Pareto Holdings is an early-stage investment and company-building firm headquartered in the United States that operates globally. It has never raised outside capital and is self-funded by design.
Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs enterprise and infrastructure founders from initial insight through market leadership, providing a proprietary playbook for finding product-market fit.
Passion Capital is a UK-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2011 by Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge, and Robert Dighero, focusing on digital media and technology investments. The founding partners bring combined experience from entrepreneurial and executive roles in technology companies.
Allison Pickens Ventures is a solo-GP fund led by Allison Pickens that invests in AI startups, offering founders operational go-to-market and scaling guidance as a COO thought partner.
The Slack Fund is an investment fund to support slack teams building products that enable more productive workplaces.
MKT1 is a B2B startup marketing media and advisory business founded by Emily Kramer, a former marketing leader at Asana and Carta. It publishes a marketing newsletter, hosts the Dear Marketers podcast, runs events and courses, and advises venture-backed B2B startups on marketing strategy and AI-enabled execution. Kramer has also invested in more than 75 startups alongside the advisory work.
Acadian Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies reshaping how work is built, run, and scaled — the infrastructure of modern work.
Valo Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs and emerging technologies at the intersection of economic, geopolitical, and environmental trends, with a focus on the electrification of industry.
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