Cloud Champions: Hirioki Takeuchi and GoCardless
GoCardless has amassed roughly $540 million in funding across eight rounds, pushing its valuation to about $2.1 billion. The fintech now processes $30 billion in annual transactions and generated $100 million in revenue, with ARR climbing from $60 million in 2021 to $250 million in 2024. Early seed and Series A rounds were £1.5 million (~$1.9 million) and £3.3 million (~$4.1 million) respectively, followed by larger US‑denominated rounds led by Google Ventures, Bain Capital and Permira. Founder Hirioki Takeuchi emphasizes that sustainable profitability, disciplined scaling and evolving leadership are essential for long‑term success.
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Getting From $0 to $10M: How to Build Your RevOps MVP (and Ensure Efficient Growth)
In a Notion Capital webinar, RevOps specialist Robert Soffel outlined how startups can construct a Revenue Operations Minimum Viable Product to break the $10 million ARR threshold. He stressed that intentional scaling—rooted in a narrow ICP, a solid data model, and a...
Why We Invested in Cobee
Notion is leading a €40 million (≈ $44 million) Series B round in Cobee, the European employee‑benefits platform that lets companies offer flexible, personalized perks. Cobee’s “operating system for benefits” consolidates benefit administration into a single app, giving employers real‑time visibility and enabling cross‑border...
Why We Invested in Cyscale
Notion Ventures announced a strategic investment in Cyscale, a startup that delivers a cybersecurity knowledge‑graph platform for cloud visibility and control. The solution extends traditional Cloud Security Posture Management by mapping relationships among virtual machines, containers, and BYOD devices across...
Why We Invested in Dex
Notion Capital is leading a $6 million seed round in Dex, an AI‑powered recruitment platform that flips the traditional model by working on behalf of candidates. The $856 billion recruitment industry has seen time‑to‑hire climb to 44 days, highlighting deep inefficiencies. Dex’s voice‑agent...
Human Leadership and Building High Performing Teams
Notion Capital argues that in the AI‑driven era, human leadership and high‑performing teams are the decisive competitive edge, outweighing pure technology investments. Their model emphasizes trust, robust debate, and rapid decision‑making to navigate complexity and ambiguity. By applying simple frameworks...
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2026 Cloud Challengers Report
Notion Capital released its fifth annual Cloud Challengers Top 100, highlighting 100 emerging European B2B software startups. Over 81 % of the companies are AI‑native, spanning data, developer tools, cybersecurity, fintech, industrial automation, robotics and SaaS. The report uses a data‑driven methodology...
Upvest’s Remarkable Journey To Become Europe's Investment Infrastructure Leader
Upvest has evolved from a 2019 Notion Capital-backed startup into Europe’s leading API‑first investment infrastructure, processing over 100 million orders a year for more than 30 financial institutions including Revolut and Santander’s Openbank. The company announced a $125 million financing round led...
Cloud Challengers
Cloud Challengers, hosted by Notion Capital and Google Cloud, convenes Europe’s top 100 B2B software founders after analysing 200,000 companies. The fifth‑annual report identifies firms with outsized growth potential, and inclusion historically triples the likelihood of securing the next funding...
The Notion Capital Academy: The Founder to Leader Journey, Scale Yourself as You Scale Your Company
The Notion Capital Academy is hosting a session titled “Founder to Leader Journey,” led by Rachel Turner of VC Talent Lab. The event targets founders scaling from $1 million to $100 million, teaching the WAM Model of Scale‑Up Leadership and the three...
Growing Pains - Juggling Complexity
Growing technology firms must juggle three inter‑related complexity streams—task, environment, and organization—as they scale. Task complexity spikes when moving from an MVP to a production‑grade product, while market expansion drives incremental then step‑change environmental complexity. Organizational complexity evolves in discrete...
The Negative Split
The report "The Negative Split" draws a marathon pacing analogy to illustrate the founder’s journey, emphasizing that early excitement gives way to a demanding second half. It argues that sustained mental and physical health, supported by data‑driven strategies and peer...
2025 - The Year of Quantum
Quantum computing is moving from theoretical research to commercial opportunity, with startups already delivering products in cybersecurity, networking, middleware, and sensing. Andy Leaver of Notion Capital argues that waiting for fault‑tolerant, cryptography‑breaking machines is unnecessary; viable markets exist today. He...
Venture Capital & the World It Lives In
General Partner Jos White of Notion Capital released his first annual market update, translating a recurring presentation into a full article. He highlights that the S&P 500 recorded 35 new highs in 2025 and rose 17% year‑to‑date, while the ACWI All‑World...
ESG Report
ESG has moved from a niche concern to a mainstream priority for investors worldwide. Over 5,300 investment organisations, managing roughly $128 trillion in assets, have signed the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. This surge reflects ESG’s evolution from a risk‑mitigation checkbox...