Anamcara, a London-based early-stage venture capital fund, has launched a $10.6M funds to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across Europe.
Founded in 2021 by Annelie Ajami, a former venture partner at B&Y Venture Partners, and Operations Manager Aakriti Singh, Anamcara was launched with a mission to invest in exceptional founders building B2B companies.
Focus on B2B companies
The VC’s focus is on companies leveraging software and internet technologies to transform the capabilities, reach, efficiency, and long-term defensiveness of businesses, from SMB to Enterprise.
The fund writes angel-sized tickets of approximately $200K, and has a strong thematic focus, leveraging a network of world-class B2B operators with the deep domain expertise to support the portfolio.
The B2B operators include Philip Reynolds, the former VP of Engineering at Workday, Maria McMenamin, the former Head of B2B Sales at Stripe, and Namrata Ganatra, CTO at Autograph.
Anamcara aims to collaborate with founding teams that have unique domain insights, technical expertise, and product know-how, providing support and guidance on
everything from syndication to new hires.
Anamcara’s portfolio
The fund has already invested in eleven companies across Europe including
- Bits Technology: Automation layer for open finance
- Equipme: B2B commerce and service management platform
- Flexspace: Enterprise solution for on-demand workspaces
- Helvengo: A digital insurance provider for small businesses.
- Noloco: No-code/low-code platform to create internal tools, customer-facing apps, and custom software around existing data.
- Nory: AI-driven restaurant management platform
- Reveel: On-chain revenue management platform for creators
- Salesform: Inbound lead routing platform
- Trumpet: Sales enablement platform that allows users to create personalized, trackable B2B sales environments
- Viably: All-in-one funding, banking, and financial guidance platform for small businesses
- Zavy: Employee enablement platform
Anamcara has co-invested alongside notable investors La Famiglia VC, Cherry Ventures (also backed The Exploration Company), Cavalry Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.
Annelie Ajami, Founder, and General Partner at Anamcara said, “Digitisation is essential in driving resiliency, global supply chains, and productivity. Given the role of technology, businesses are now able to rethink practices, operations, and the way they serve their customers. As a thematic fund, we have a “prepared mind” when it comes to investing in this space and engaging with important stakeholders to develop views on forces that can shape the sector.”
Ajami, continued, “We invest in founders who have identified a massive market opportunity and who are determined to build category leaders in this space. Through our category expertise and strong investor and operator network, we help our companies build foundations for accelerated growth and international expansion.”
Conor Sheridan, Founder and CEO of Nory, one of the first startups to receive an investment from Anamcara, said, “Annelie and the team at Anamcara have been there for us whenever we’ve asked for it, from introductions to platform support and beyond. A lot of the challenges we have faced, Anamcara has acted as an incredible soundboard and given us access to their tremendously experienced network. I highly recommend Anamcara as a partner to any startups raising their first round.”
