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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Nov 4, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Selling Ubimax to Teamviewer — Hendrik Witt on taking advantage of the right moment

In this episode of The Big Exit Show, we talk to Dr. Hendrik Witt of Ubimax. Witt sold his augmented reality solution to Teamviewer in 2020. He founded the company in 2014 together with Percy Stocker and Jan Junker. At the time of the acquisition, the exit price has not…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling Ubimax to Teamviewer — Hendrik Witt on taking advantage of the right…
The Big Exit Show: Selling Ubimax to Teamviewer — Hendrik Witt on taking advantage of the right…

29 min read


Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Oct 6, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Selling Usabilla and Human.co — Paul Veugen on his multiple startup exits

In this episode of The Big Exit Show, we talk to serial entrepreneur Paul Veugen who founded Usabilla, and the iOS app of the year Human.co. Usabilla was later sold to SurveyMonkey, and Human.co was acquired by Mapbox. He is currently building a new venture called Detail.co to help creators…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling Usabilla and Human.co — Paul Veugen on his multiple startup exits
The Big Exit Show: Selling Usabilla and Human.co — Paul Veugen on his multiple startup exits

71 min read


Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Sep 20, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Selling neobank Holvi and reacquiring it — the founder story of Tuomas Toivonen

When Tuomas Toivonen realized there was no banking service that would help him run his business, he didn’t just sit around but founded neobank Holvi together with Kristoffer Lawson, Mikko Teerenhovi and Teemu Hukkanen. They did this around the same time when Ali Niknam founded Bunq and even before other…

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The Big Exit Show: Selling neobank Holvi and reacquiring it — the founder story of Tuomas Toivonen
The Big Exit Show: Selling neobank Holvi and reacquiring it — the founder story of Tuomas Toivonen

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Apr 13, 2022

web3 | how did we get here

Preamble — No one can predict the future, neither can we, but we would like to explore together the opportunities in web3. During the past decades, we have seen many trying to predict the future of the internet and failing. Some have even gone public with their opinions on what will work…

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web3 | how did we get here
web3 | how did we get here

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Apr 7, 2022

Nordics Marketplace Map

❄️ Back to our roots, we are excited to publish our first beta marketplace map in the Nordics! ☀️ With our recent investment in Blidz 🇫🇮 together with General Catalyst, FJ Labs done from our Nordic office (Indra and Calin), we bring our entrepreneurial mindset and marketplace experience to the…

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Nordics Marketplace Map
Nordics Marketplace Map

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Mar 23, 2022

Social shopping app Blidz raises €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak

Helsinki, Finland — March 23rd 2022 — Blidz, the leading social shopping app combining gamification and social group buying, has raised €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak with participation from D4 Ventures (Hanzade Dogan), Illusian Capital (Ilkka Paananen), Fabric Ventures, FJ Labs as well as existing…

Seed Investor

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Social shopping app Blidz raises €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak
Social shopping app Blidz raises €6m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst and Peak
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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Mar 3, 2022

The Big Exit Show: Dr. Gero Decker on selling Signavio to SAP

We are in Berlin to talk to Dr. Gero Decker. Gero is one of the founders of Signavio, a specialist in business process automation with offices in 12 countries. The company was recently sold after 12 years to technology giant, SAP. …

Fundraising

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The Big Exit Show: Dr. Gero Decker on selling Signavio to SAP
The Big Exit Show: Dr. Gero Decker on selling Signavio to SAP
Fundraising

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Feb 3, 2022

Employee Finance App Circula closes EUR 12M Series A from Peak, Alstin Capital, and Storm Ventures

Berlin, Jan 31st 2022 — Berlin-based software-as-a-service fintech Circula announced today that it has closed a EUR 12M funding round, with venture capital firms ALSTIN Capital from Germany, Peak from the Netherlands and Storm Ventures from the US investing in the company. Existing investors Capnamic, Main Incubator and WENVEST Capital…

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Employee Finance App Circula closes EUR 12M Series A from Peak, Alstin Capital, and Storm Ventures
Employee Finance App Circula closes EUR 12M Series A from Peak, Alstin Capital, and Storm Ventures

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Feb 1, 2022

Channable Secures over €55M in Series B Funding Led by Partech Scaling E-commerce Marketing for Digital Marketers, Brands, and Online Retailers

Utrecht, The Netherlands — February 1, 2022 — Channable, a leading global, e-commerce feed management and PPC automation solution provider for digital marketers, brands and online retailers, announces that it has received over €55M in Series B funding led by Partech with existing investor Peak. …

Series B

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Series B

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Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

·Jan 31, 2022

Taking on a $65 Billion market: Data Matching Startup Tilo raises €1.2 Million in pre-Seed funding round led by Peak

Berlin-based Tilo raised €1,200,000 in pre-Seed funding led by European VC Peak (€640,000), and joined by Tiny VC (Philipp Moehring), First Momentum Ventures, Enduring Ventures and Angel Investors including the founder of Algolia and the former CMO of Contentful to name a few. Matching billions of datasets in real-time: Tilo’s…

Seed Investor

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Seed Investor

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Stefan Bary

Stefan Bary

Stefan is Managing Partner at Peak Capital, one of the leading venture capital firms in the Netherlands focusing on marketplaces, SaaS and data companies.

Johan van Mil

Johan van Mil

Serial entrepreneur turned European early stage marketplace, platform & SaaS investor @ Peak

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