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Connect Ventures
Venture capitalLondon · Pre-Seed–Series A · 5 people tracked
Not to be confused with Connect Ventures (Venture capital · Los Angeles, US) or Connect Ventures (Venture capital · London, GB)
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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 directoriesFounder mafia
4 people who came through Connect Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 12 of 22 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×10SaaS ×7Developer Tools ×5Enterprise Software ×4Fintech ×3Marketing Tech ×3AdTech ×2Creator Economy ×2
HQs:United Kingdom×3France×2United States×2Sweden×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 6 portfolio companiesWhere their founders studiedfrom 10 founders with education data
Technische Universität Berlin ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×4Business & Management ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 10 founders with career history
Optimizely ×3Citymapper ×2Nokia Bell Labs ×2
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(Co-founder & CEO)Corvin Jaedicke(Co-founder)in
BoardBORIS GOLDEN(Director)in
Board seatSitar Teli· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsInovia CapitalAcurio VenturesConnect 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 CapitalConnect VenturesHeartfelt CapitalSie VenturesTera Ventures
Cloud Capital provides AI-powered cloud cost forecasting and allocation software that maps infrastructure spending to business drivers and cost layers defined by the customer.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Ed Barrow(Co-Founder & CEO)inSpencer Pingry(Co-Founder & CTO)inZack Liscio(Co-Founder & CPO)in
Co-investorsBackedConnect VenturesDFF VenturesRedbus VenturesMiddlegame VenturesMMC Ventures+1 more
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)Pietro Bezza(Managing Partner, co-founder of Connect)in
Co-investorsBetaworksFJ LabsN49PVentures TogetherBallou CapitalIndaco Venture Partners+1 more
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
Gabriella Hachem(Founder)in
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)inOmid Gosha(Founder)inPoone Mokari(Founder)in
Co-investors50 PartnersNotion CapitalAgoranovConnect Ventures2100 Ventures
Ogment provides an AI agent that operates within Slack to automate business tasks across connected tools and data sources.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsTranspose Platform Management
Pretty Great Studio is a design studio that works with startup founders and technologists to create clear, purposeful design solutions.
Creator EconomyDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechLos Angeles, US
Co-investorsConnect Ventures
Sekai is an AI-powered platform where users create, remix, and share interactive mini-apps instantly without coding, ranging from utilities to games.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomySocial
Kaiser Kim(Founder)inLucky Z.(Founder)inAzhar Deen(Founder)in
Co-investors359 CapitalA*A16Z SpeedrunConnect VenturesMakers FundMVP Ventures+3 more
Tuza is a banking automation platform that orchestrates AI agents alongside human colleagues and customers to automate manual processes in pricing, data quality, and customer onboarding.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSLondon, GB
Ed Hardy(CEO)inOlivia Stannah(CTO)in
Co-investorsConnect VenturesEntrepreneur FirstNorthzoneCharlie SonghurstMMC 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-investorsConnect VenturesKima VenturesMotier VenturesRoosh VenturesY CombinatorBIP Ventures+8 more
Zellify is a mobile attribution platform that captures user journeys before the App Store and sends conversion events to advertising platforms like Meta, TikTok, and Google.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsConnect VenturesFJ LabsInovia Capital
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AikidoColossalCookies PolicyMosaicoNexcade Oii7ASteepTablyTorgTrialingUnwritten
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesUpstream · ycombinator.com · Jun 22, 2026
Sekai · finance.yahoo.com · Jun 3, 2026
Dessn · thesaasnews.com · May 12, 2026
Zellify · trysignalbase.com · Apr 28, 2026
Ewake · finsmes.com · Oct 7, 2025
Cloud Capital · finsmes.com · Apr 23, 2025
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 22 tracked investments, including 4 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, Entrepreneur First, among 21 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
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Co-investors · 12
Notion Capital is a London-based venture capital firm focused on B2B SaaS and cloud technology companies, backing founders on the journey to scale.
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 firm that has invested in roughly 10-12 startups per year since 2008, with a focus on SaaS and B2B companies.
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 focused on early-stage enterprise founders, supporting them from initial insight through to market leadership with a proprietary product-market fit playbook.
Passion Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs European founders building technology companies, with a focus on AI, FinTech and Risk.
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.
Firms observed investing alongside Connect Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Connect Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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