Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a venture capital company located in London, San Francisco, and Geneva. They support entrepreneurs in transforming ambitious ideas into impactful global businesses.

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The King of Candy: How Riccardo Zacconi and King Conquered Mobile Gaming

Nov 19, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

For two weeks in the summer of 1985, Riccardo Zacconi worked as a dentist’s assistant. The 18-year-old Zacconi wore a white gown, mask, and gloves. He moved the operating light when the dentist asked him to. He handed over tiny mirrors, scalers, probes. The dentist was Zacconi’s father, who ran a busy practice in the heart of Rome. Zacconi, fresh out of high school, was adamant about doing something different with his life.
Captions’ Gaurav Misra Talks Leveraging AI Opportunities with Index’s Damir Becirovic

Nov 4, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

“The AI era is one of those rare moments where a fundamental shift creates so many opportunities, so many possibilities, that there's just not enough people in the world to actually take on all of it,” says Gaurav Misra, Captions CEO. Gaurav knows a thing or two about leveraging AI, with Captions having recently raised $60M in Series C funding to drive research into and development of generative video technology.
Catching up with Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang

Oct 31, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

“Better data results in better AI.”— Alexandr Wang, Founder & CEO, Scale AI For the past decade, Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, has been at the forefront of the AI revolution, turning a small idea into a global company that powers data infrastructure for the world’s top enterprises.
Scaling Through Chaos – On The Record With Notion, Revolut & Wiz | Index Ventures

Sep 30, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

This September, Index brought together leaders from Notion, Revolut, and Wiz, alongside a curated group of founders and CEOs in London, to explore themes from our latest book Scaling Through Chaos. We’re lifting the lid on how these three industry giants—each valued at over $10 billion—surfed the edge of chaos. Explore the videos below for behind-the-scenes insights into Revolut’s unique culture, the origin story of Wiz, and Notion’s dedication to its community.
The Fast and the Furious: How ClickHouse, the World’s Fastest Open-Source Database, is Creating the First Real-Time Data Warehouse

Jun 13, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

Developing a database is a lot like building a company. At its core, a database is only as good as the way it’s built, the data people put into it, and the use cases built on top of it. Similarly, a company’s success boils down to its foundational principles, the people in charge, and the strategies put in place to meet market needs and adapt to changing environments. ClickHouse creator Alexey Milovidov nailed the first part when he committed the first lines of code back in 2009.
EthonAI raises $16.5m Series A to make sense out of manufacturing’s data deluge

May 29, 2024 | indexventures.com | Katharina Wilhelm

QUICK TAKESwiss startup EthonAI raises a $16.5m (CHF 15m) Series A, led by Index Ventures, to help manufacturers make sense out of billions of data points – in sectors from consumer goods to electronics. Factories are yet to reap the rewards of their data-trove from the explosion of sensors, robots and more. But now, AI is bringing manufacturing to an inflection point where it can extract meaning from the vast swathes of data produced every day and cut down on the industry’s massive waste problem.
Catching up with GetHarley founder and CEO Charmaine Chow

May 8, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

Charmaine, Founder & CEO of GetHarley, started the business as a side-hustle, delivering personalised boxes of products en route to work in the City every morning. She experienced the problem of navigating a confusing skincare market firsthand as an avid skincare consumer searching for fixes, and was fuelled by the mission to help other consumers like her look, feel and be a better version of themselves - at any age.
Cloud Captains: How Assaf Rappaport and His Extraordinary Co-Founders Built the World’s Fastest-Growing Company

Mar 1, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

Don’t mistake Assaf Rappaport’s gentleness for someone willing to play by the rules. A self-described introvert with a quiet, unassuming nature, behind that image is one of the most ambitious entrepreneurs of his generation. His company, Wiz, valued at $10 billion during its Series D round a year ago, has taken cloud security by storm, led by Rappaport’s not-so-modest vision of rapid fundraising, hiring elite talent, and targeting A-list customers.
Room with a View: How Linda Lian and Common Room Are Shaping the Future of Go-to-Market

Jan 25, 2024 | indexventures.com | Index Ventures

Linda Lian was five years old when she stepped off a plane from China. In her hands she clutched a bundle of photos of her parents, though she had no memory of ever meeting them. A family friend led her through the busy Sky Harbor Airport to be reunited with her mother and father, who hugged her and took her to her new home in Phoenix. Several years earlier, Lian’s parents, like millions of immigrants during the 1990s, had come to the U.S. in search of opportunity.
Tacto secures €50m to tackle disruptions and bureaucracy in industrial supply chains

Dec 12, 2023 | indexventures.com | Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas |Kathi Wilhelm

QUICK TAKETacto is an AI-based supply-chain operating system tailored specifically to the needs of mid-sized industrial companies. At a time when supply chains are in turmoil, Tacto boosts efficiency, saves costs and enables future-proofing. Tacto is part of a new cohort of tech companies that are creating software for SMEs, a size of company that has long been neglected by software businesses.