Round2 Capital
Round2 Capital Partners specializes in revenue-based investments with a focus on fast growing digital scale-ups in Europe. This page covers insights in our investment strategy, our policies and our core financing instrument.
Round2 Capital Partners specializes in revenue-based investments with a focus on fast growing digital scale-ups in Europe. This page covers insights in our investment strategy, our policies and our core financing instrument.
Round2 supports outstanding entrepreneurs in driving their business forward without diluting ownership. The way company value is created has undergone fundamental changes. Today value is created by disruptive business models building on immaterial assets, digitization and technological progress.
DRACOON, based in Regensburg, is the market leader in the field of enterprise file services in German-speaking countries and has set itself the task of giving the world back sovereignty over its data with its platform. Following the principle of „Privacy by Design“, DRACOON has integrated client-side encryption.
Sales Impact Academy is a subscription-based online learning platform providing ’sales education as a service‘ to B2B sales and marketing teams. SIA was founded in 2019 by Alexandra Damgaard and Paul Fifield and has since grown from a tiny team to an ever-expanding team of 30+ members and 35 industry-leading experts on their coaching roster.
With their provider Hamilton Apps French Scale-Up HDS provides B2B software dedicated to Smart Workplace management. For nearly 20 years these solutions create more pleasant and efficient workplaces through innovation and seamless user experience. They will soon launch the new generation of its best-seller application with a cutting-edge technology stack.
Revenue-based financing is a simple type of funding in which a company receives funding in exchange for a share in its future revenue until a pre-defined absolute amount – the cap – is reached. Unlike rigid repayment plans of bank loans or venture debt instruments, the repayments in revenue-based finance are tied to monthly revenue and thus naturally adapt to cash flows, going up when revenues are strong and down when revenues are weak. As no valuation is necessary funding can easily be increased as revenues increase.
Revenue-based finance is a quantum leap forward in the way the growth of digital businesses with recurring revenues is funded. The Round2 revenue-based finance solution is not only a simple, flexible and transparent form of growth funding, it also creates exceptional value for Founders and shareholders without diluting ownership.
Revenue-based finance has become an important part of the funding ecosystem. In the US and Canada there are more than 25 revenue-based finance funds, which have successfully funded hundreds of fast growing companies. Especially suitable for revenue-based funding are SaaS firms as the funding can be built into the stream of recurring revenues.
Founders of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies use various sources of capital through the different stages of the companies’ development. Based on conversations with hundreds of SaaS businesses over the last couple of years, this article provides an overview of how founders of SaaS companies evaluate the alternatives available.
Round2 Lab is a leading European program for young companies in their scale-up phase bringing together high calibre coaches with exceptional tech companies. So far more than 20 ventures from four countries have concluded the Round2 Lab, many of them having successfully scaled their business, raised more capital and closed profitable exits.