Born in the pandemic, Moonfire’s first $60M Seed fund will combine remote investing with big data
During the pandemic, we’ve seen the rise of ‘Zoom investing’ – where VCs literally use remote video conference tools like Zoom and Google Meet to take pitches from entrepreneurs. Now a new European Seed fund plans to leverage that emerging behavior and bake it into their model.
Mattias Ljungman, the former co-founder of Atomico formed Moonfire when he left in December 2019, but few details were revealed about his new operation. Today Moonfire reveals it will be a $60 million seed-stage “data-driven” VC that will also leverage the new advantages of remote working which entrepreneurs themselves have had to adapt to.
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Moonfire, the $60m (£43m) seed fund which launched in March 2020, has invested in a dozen start-ups within its first year.
London-based Moonfire plans to invest between $100,000 and $500,000 in pre-seed funding per company and anything between $1m and $1.5m when it comes to seed funding.
It aims to invest in between 10 and 12 start-ups each year.
Founder Mattias Ljungman believes there’s a need for Moonfire because of a dearth of pre-seed and seed investment in Europe, despite the growth in later, larger VC funding rounds.
Ljungman, who co-founded $2bn venture capital fund Atomico, said: “European seed is underfunded: it has not received the same attention as it has in the US and China. We have seen existing later stage VC funds who have recently closed large rounds, that are searching for new deals coming out of seed.”