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Piton Capital
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Piton Capital invests exclusively in online businesses with network effects — the key defensibility moat that enables a winner in a given market to achieve dominance and sizeable multiples of relative market share over competitors. The firm focuses on marketplaces, platforms, exchanges, data/ML network effects, user-generated content businesses, and SaaS companies with the potential to layer network effects around their core product. As stated on LinkedIn: 'Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses as this provides one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance.' The firm makes investments ranging from €200k to €20m, primarily in Europe, across seed through growth equity stages, and has invested in over 50 businesses since its founding in 2010 across four closed-end venture capital funds.
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“Piton is a small VC that focuses solely on businesses with network effects or online marketplaces. Network effects provide an 'unfair advantage' that enables a winner in a respective market to achieve dominance and as a result sizeable multiples of relative market share in comparison to its competitors.”
“Network effects provide an 'unfair advantage' that enables a winner in a respective market to achieve dominance and as a result sizeable multiples of relative market share in comparison to its competitors. Examples of this are seen in many established technology businesses such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Alibaba and Tencent.”
“Marketplaces is one form of network effects; there are however several other examples of businesses that aren't marketplaces but include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around their core product.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto1 Group | Series E / IPO | — | 2021-02 |
| ManoMano | Series E | $140m | 2020-01 |
| Booksy | Series C | $70m | 2021-01 |
| DocPlanner | Series E | $90m | 2019-05 |
| McMakler | Series D | — | 2023-07 |
| Zenjob | Series D | $51m | 2022-01 |
| Wunder Mobility | Series B | $30m | 2018-09 |
| Munch | Series A | — | 2024-01 |
| Vesper | Series A | — | 2023-11 |
| Gringo | Series C | — | 2023-09 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| DN Capital | 5 |
| FJ Labs | 5 |
| HV Capital (HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) | 4 |
| Cherry Ventures | 3 |
| Partech | 2 |
| Point Nine Capital | 2 |
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