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Newion

Venture capital

Amsterdam · Seed–Late Stage · 13 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Newion invests with a founder-centric, collaborative approach, prioritizing decision quality over speed. The firm starts by understanding how work is actually done, where processes break, and why problems exist, rather than leading with narratives or categories. It studies companies across markets and cycles to separate durable drivers from one-off effects. Newion positions itself alongside founders rather than above them, taking time when it improves decisions and acting decisively when things are clear. Its portfolio reflects a focus on B2B and enterprise software across Europe.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Late Stage
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$1.1M – $11M
HQ
Amsterdam, NL
Leads rounds
Follows
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2000
Last 12 months
3 investments
Tracked investments
53

Team · 13 people

from the firm's website & public directories
Jaap van Barneveld· Co-Founder and Partnerin

What they invest in

from 48 of 53 portfolio companies

SaaS ×43AI & Machine Learning ×22Enterprise Software ×15Marketing Tech ×13Fintech ×6Future of Work ×5AdTech ×3Data & Infrastructure ×3

HQs:Netherlands×6Germany×4United States×2

Who they back

founder profiles across 16 portfolio companies
31%
solo founders
5 of 16 mapped founding teams
47%
repeat founders
of 15 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×52 founders×73 founders×4

Investments · 53 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 22025 · 32024 · 38 dated

Nopannopan.comin✓ verified

Nopan is a regulated Payment Institution and payment service provider (PSP) focused on account and wallet payment methods, offering a unified API and a portal for transaction monitoring, routing, and reporting.

FintechSaaS

Konstantin Surkov

Co-investorsCrane Venture Partners

Parloaparloa.comin𝕏✓ verified

Parloa Labs is a research organization advancing the science and practice of artificial intelligence through deployments of voice AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBerlin, DE

Malte Kosub(Founder)inStefan Ostwald(Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer)

Co-investorsEQT VenturesG SquaredMosaic VenturesGeneral CatalystArtisanal VenturesBlueYard Capital+2 more

24I24i.comin

24i provides a no-code video streaming platform that lets media companies and TV operators build white-label streaming apps for web, mobile, streaming devices and Smart TVs, with content management, personalization and cloud-based video workflow tools.

Cloud ComputingMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Agiledayagileday.comin𝕏Jan 2026

Agileday is a platform for professional services and consulting firms that connects people, pipeline, financials, and delivery data to enable real-time forecasting, resource planning, and talent-to-demand matching.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsSpecialist VCVendep Capital

Agiledayagileday.ioin𝕏Jan 2026

Agileday is a platform for consulting and professional services firms that connects people, pipeline, financials, and delivery data to enable real-time forecasting, resource planning, and staffing.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS

Co-investorsVendep CapitalSpecialist VC

Airfocusairfocus.comin𝕏Jan 2024 · $7.5M

airfocus is a product management platform that surfaces patterns from tickets, transcripts, and surveys to help product teams prioritize, build roadmaps, collect feedback, and make decisions.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Malte Scholz(Founder)in

Co-investorsRiverside Acceleration CapitalXAnge

Alleoalleo.nlApr 2024

Alleo offers a platform and app for flexible employee benefits and compensation, letting employees assemble a personal package from over 300 options across sports, wellbeing, mobility and other categories, while giving HR and finance teams administration and payroll integration.

Future of WorkHR TechSaaS

Co-investorsDFF Ventures

Apicbaseapicbase.com

Belgian SaaS company offering a back-of-house F&B management platform for multi-site restaurants, catering and hotels.

Co-investorsAngelwiseVolta Ventures

Birdsviewbirdsview.com

Birdsview builds Avys, an AI email marketing agent for online shops that autonomously generates and sends hyper-personalized emails based on each customer's behavior and the shop's products and brand voice, replacing traditional email tools.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechFrankfurt, DE

Camphousecamphouse.ioin𝕏

Camphouse is a media operations platform for advertisers and agencies to allocate, plan, activate, and report paid media campaigns collaboratively.

AdTechMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsFairpoint CapitalJ12 Ventures

Churnedchurned.ioin

Churned provides a predictive and prescriptive AI engine that identifies subscribers at risk of churning, recommends retention or upsell actions, and triggers them automatically through a company's existing email, SMS, and CRM tools.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsVolta Ventures

Clockinclockin.euinSep 2025

clockin provides software for operational teams to replace paper, WhatsApp, Excel and legacy tools used to manage their processes.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Co-investorsSCALEHOUSE Capital Management

Collibracollibra.comin𝕏

Collibra describes its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and how these principles guide its business decisions.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US

Felix Van de Maele(Founder)in

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationBattery VenturesCapitalGCrane Venture PartnersDawn CapitalICONIQ+2 more

Customergaugecustomergauge.comin

CustomerGauge is a B2B experience platform that captures real-time account-level customer feedback and surveys, linking NPS to revenue, risk, and financial outcomes.

Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsRiverside Acceleration Capital

Datastoriesdatastories.comin

DataStories, part of Partners in Performance, provides prescriptive analytics software for industrial operations, delivering real-time optimization to improve recovery, quality, yield, and energy efficiency.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software

Deliverectdeliverect.comin

Deliverect operates a platform designed to support the food service and restaurant industry worldwide, facilitating growth and digital operations through integration with major food delivery and point-of-sale partners.

E-commerceEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechRetail TechSaaS

Zhong Xu(Founder)inJerome Laredo(Founder)in

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationCoatue ManagementOMERS VenturesRedpoint VenturesSmartFin

Delphaidelphai.comAcquired

delphai is a company that has become part of Intapp.

Co-investorsLinden Capital

Dexter Energydexterenergy.aiinJul 2025

Dexter Energy provides AI-driven power and price forecasting, from day-ahead to real time, to help asset-backed renewable and battery energy traders maximize traded volumes and reduce imbalance risk.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy

Co-investorsETF PartnersRockstartMirova

Ellieellie.aiin𝕏

Ellie is a data product design platform that lets teams map existing databases and source data and plan target data structures (such as data warehouses, data vaults, or data meshes) in one tool.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalRustic Canyon PartnersTrinity Ventures

Emburseemburse.comin𝕏Acquired

Emburse is a travel and expense management platform that helps organizations automate T&E processes, improve compliance, and gain spending visibility.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Peter Lai(Founder/CEO)inRoger Gu(Founder)in

Co-investors500 GlobalTeamworthy VenturesY Combinator

Filestagefilestage.ioin𝕏

Filestage is an online proofing platform that lets teams review and approve creative assets such as PDFs, artwork, videos, and live websites through contextual feedback and custom approval workflows.

Future of WorkMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsSeed+Speed

Foleonfoleon.comin𝕏

Foleon offers a drag-and-drop content creation platform with AI support for tasks like alt and meta text, keywords, and tone revisions, enabling teams to build and manage interactive digital content.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Daan Reijnders(Founder)in

Co-investorsEuropean Investment Fund

Keylanekeylane.comin𝕏

Keylane provides SaaS platforms for the insurance and pension industry, including Keylane Plexus for life and pension providers and Keylane Axon for property and casualty insurers.

FintechInsurTechSaaS

Co-investorsPollen Street Capital

Kopplakoppla.dein

koppla is a construction scheduling software that lets general contractors, planners, project developers and architects create schedules, track site progress in real time, standardize processes and generate reports.

Construction TechPropTechSaaS

Jerome Lange(Founder)in

Co-investorsBrandenburg KapitalEarlybird Venture Capital

L1Ndal1nda.comin

L1NDA offers a workforce management platform that handles employee scheduling, workforce administration, and payroll in a single system.

Future of WorkHR TechSaaS

Legionelladossierlegionelladossier.comin

LegionellaDossier is water hygiene compliance software for creating Legionella risk assessments and scheduling, performing, and recording water safety control measures across building estates.

HealthtechPropTechSaaS

Co-investorsVolta Ventures

Lightbringerlightbringer.comin

Lightbringer is a full-service patent management provider that combines AI agents with licensed patent attorneys to draft, file, and prosecute patents, including office action management and portfolio maintenance.

AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS

Co-investorsAlliance VCAlliance VentureInception FundLuminar Ventures6 Degrees Capital

Mirror42mirror42.com
Nalliannallian.comin𝕏

Nallian provides software for managing landside truck flows and slot booking at airport cargo communities, serving ground handlers, airport cargo operators, and logistics providers.

Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Neopleneople.ioinJun 2024

Neople builds AI "digital coworkers" that automate repetitive customer support workflows, handling tickets, questions, and tasks across a team's existing tools with human review before anything goes live.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Hans de Penning(Founder)in

Co-investorsPeakSimon Capital

Njiapaynjiapay.comin

NjiaPay is a payment orchestration platform that reduces failed online transactions to increase checkout conversions for businesses operating in the African payment ecosystem.

FintechSaaS

Co-investorsHAVAIC

Nuwacomnuwacom.ai

nuwacom offers a model-agnostic AI operating system that connects people, AI agents, and apps through an organization's own knowledge, with features for chat, business apps, specialized agents, workflow automation, and meeting note-taking.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Objectiveplatformobjectiveplatform.comin

Objective Platform is a SaaS platform for marketing mix modelling that measures, analyses and optimises media investments across offline and online channels, linking marketing performance to business value.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Occtooocctoo.comin

Occtoo provides a product orchestration engine that unifies product data—including descriptions, media, customer, supplier, and transactional data—in a single no-code platform.

Data & InfrastructureRetail TechSaaS

K.A Niclas Mollin(Founder)inJimmy Ekbäck(Founder)in

Co-investors42CAPIndustrifonden

Oxxiooxxio.nlin𝕏

Oxxio is a Dutch energy provider offering electricity (100% green power) and gas to consumers under fixed, variable, and dynamic pricing contracts.

CleantechEnergy

PartsCloudpartscloud.comin𝕏Feb 2025

PartsCloud offers PartsOS, an AI-based software for spare parts planning in the machinery/mechanical engineering sector, providing demand forecasting, automatic order recommendations, and inventory optimization per SKU and service level from a company's ERP data.

AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Benjamin Reichenecker(Founder)in

Co-investorsSquareOne

Passendopassendo.comin𝕏

Passendo provides an email ad server platform that helps publishers and media companies sell, target, and manage advertising within their newsletters.

AdTechMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsPeople Ventures

Preprprepr.ioin

Prepr is a CMS that combines content management, data, and experimentation to deliver adaptive, personalized web experiences.

Cloud ComputingMarketing TechSaaS

Propulsionpropulsion.nlin

Propulsion is a B2B service company that provides lead generation and market development for the ICT sector, acting as a virtual account management team for IT distributors and vendor partners.

Marketing TechSaaSSales Tech

Co-investorsMercia Ventures

Reasultreasult.nlin𝕏

Reasult develops forecasting software for real estate management, covering property development, asset and portfolio management, valuation management, and financial planning.

FintechPropTechSaaS

Rexrex.aiin

Rex is a media intelligence platform that monitors thousands of publisher sources in real time, using its Nova engine to detect sentiment shifts, narrative themes, and emerging stories, then turns them into client-ready briefings and alerts.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS

Salonkeesalonkee.com

Salonkee provides salon management software for hair and beauty professionals plus a consumer salon booking platform.

Co-investorsExpon CapitalPeakSpan Capital PartnersVerve VenturesFortino Capital

Sequestosequesto.comin

SEQUESTO offers an agentic operating system (aOS) that combines AI model intelligence, specialist agents, connected knowledge, and configurable workflows into one auditable platform for drafting responses to RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, tenders, and security questionnaires.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Patrick Dalvinck(Founder)inEvrard t'Serstevens(Founder)in

Co-investorsSmartFin

Servoyservoy.comin𝕏Acquired

Servoy is a professional low-code enterprise application development platform used to design, build, deploy, and run mission-critical business applications, with an option for Servoy to deliver the application on a fixed price, fixed scope basis.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Swipeguideswipeguide.cominacquired by L2L

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningIoTSaaS

Co-investorsCapitalT

Synplesynple.eu
Tax Modeltax-model.comAcquired

TaxModel provided tax compliance software solutions.

FintechSaaS

Hank Moonen(Founder)in

The Next Adthenextad.comin

The Next Ad is a digital advertising agency that provides cross-channel strategy, campaign optimisation, and tracking pixel implementation across platforms such as Google Search, Display, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Amazon.

AdTechMarketing Tech

Turnupturnup.worldin

TurnUp is an AI layer for dental practices and DSOs that scores no-show risk on every appointment, then confirms high-risk patients ahead of time and automatically fills cancelled slots from a waitlist.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS

ValueBlue Agile enterprise architecturevalueblue.comin𝕏

ValueBlue develops BlueDolphin, an AI-native platform for managing enterprise business and IT transformation projects, combining architecture data with collaborative design.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsOctopus Ventures

Viktorviktor.aiin𝕏

VIKTOR is a platform for building apps, workflows, and AI agents that automate engineering tasks using AI, code, or both, connecting tools like CAD, BIM, FEM, spreadsheets, and databases into a single workflow.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS

Co-investorsAccelBek VenturesInovo VCTenacity Capital

Weezeventweezevent.comin𝕏

Weezevent provides event technology for organizers, including online ticketing, customizable event mini-sites, e-tickets and badges, access control, cashless payment, and audience management.

Marketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Pierre-Henri Deballon(Founder)inSébastien Tonglet(Founder)inDavid De Wever(Founder)in

Xvrsimxvrsim.comin𝕏acquired by LearnPro Group

XVR Simulation develops virtual reality training and simulation software for first responders and safety-critical professions.

EdTechGamingSaaS

Exits · 2

IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolio

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Newion made?
Newion has 53 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Newion invest at?
Newion invests at the Seed, Series A, Late Stage stages.
What is Newion's typical check size?
Newion typically writes checks of $1.1M – $11M.
What sectors does Newion focus on?
Newion focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
Where is Newion located?
Newion is headquartered in Amsterdam, NL.
Does Newion lead rounds?
Newion typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Who does Newion co-invest with?
Newion most often shares deals with Volta Ventures, Alkeon Innovation, Crane Venture Partners, among 52 tracked co-investors.

From the blog

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Newion has written about early-stage investments in data governance, AI customer service, and restaurant logistics platforms, emphasizing backing bold founders who identify overlooked market gaps and adapt their vision as circumstances change. AI summary

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

Investor Connect - 685 - Patrick Polak of Newion Partners

Hall Martin · Patrick Polak

Invest Europe Leader Interviews: Patrick Polak, Newion Partners

Invest Europe · Patrick Polak

Patrick Polak, Newion Partners

Invest Europe · Patrick Polak

Invest Europe 40th Anniversary Interview: Patrick Polak, Newion Partners

Invest Europe · Patrick Polak

Interview Patrick Polak - Managing Partner & Co-founder Newion

The Thoughtleaders Network · Patrick Polak

Discussing the European digital ecosystem with Patrick Polak from Newion Investments

Tech Tour · Patrick Polak

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Co-investors · 6

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that backs companies from Seed to IPO and beyond, including through its dedicated seed fund Index Origin.

Both backed · 1
$540K – $10.8M
Battery Ventures

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.

Both backed · 1
$500K – $100M
Octopus Ventures

Octopus Ventures is a founder-focused European venture capital firm that backs mission-driven startups across seven core sectors, investing from idea stage through growth with a focus on pre-seed to Series A.

$130K – $1.3M
Dawn Capital

Dawn Capital is a European venture capital firm backing companies with global ambitions.

Both backed · 1
$317.5K – $6.3M
HTGF

HTGF is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies and new business models.

$1.1M
Prime Ventures

Prime Ventures is a European venture capital firm that backs technology companies, supporting founders in scaling their businesses.

$5.4M – $16.2M

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