I had a professor in college who explained financial markets by saying the that world was full of those looking to receive and those looking to provide certain cash flows with very specific parameters, such as timing, size, yield, currency, etc. The role of the financial markets and their facilitators, he said, is simply to Read more

We are very excited to announce that Sophia and the Nasty Gal team have agreed to partner with Index to build the next stage of what is already an incredibly successful startup.
For those of you who don’t know about Nasty Gal, it is one of the fastest growing fashion etailers out there. Nasty Gal is great Read more

We first started investing in London in 2001 when we backed two American former consultants – Josh Hannah and Vince Monical – who had moved here to start Flutter, the business which later became Betfair. In fact, it’s pretty remarkable how far London has come in entrepreneurial terms since we made that first investment and Read more

Today as we announce the news that we’re launching Index’s second growth equity fund, a new €500m fund to invest in fast-growing businesses, it seems like a good chance to take stock and give a little context.

It’s been an incredibly busy last 12 months for us, in which:

we’ve had 15 exits including 3 IPOs (Aegerion, Read more

(also posted at www.ben.vc)

One area where we are committed to enhance our proposition to entrepreneurs and invest more time and money is the Nordic and Baltic area.  Index Ventures has already invested a disproportionately high share of funds and time here relative to the size of the markets.  Here we reflect on what Index has Read more

Having noticed that Melbourne seemed to be popping up as a hot-spot over the last few years with the emergence of Atlassian and 99designs, I asked Steve Lipchin, a business school friend who recently moved there from South Africa, to let me know what companies he thought we should look at.  A few weeks later, Read more

Just a short note to offer big congratulations to the amazing team at The Gifts Project on their acquisition by eBay.
We’ve had a relatively short relationship since we were lucky enough to have been introduced 12 months ago by Yossi Vardi in Tel Aviv, but it’s been an absolute pleasure and privilege to work with Read more

Today, Cloud.com has announced that it is being acquired by Citrix (bit.ly/nL7696).  It is a bittersweet moment for us at Index as we have loved working with Sheng and the team at Cloud.com, but Citrix made an offer that the team couldn’t refuse.
We are incredibly excited for Sheng and his colleagues at Cloud.com.  They have Read more

The IP Networking industry has matured significantly from the go-go days of the 90’s.  In that era, companies like Cisco, Wellfleet, Synoptics and Cabletron grabbed headlines the way Facebook and Twitter do today.  In was an exciting time because the birth of the web created massive demand for communications networks that spoke IP – the Read more

We are delighted to announce that Sami Lababidi has started to work part-time at Index Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Sami was absolutely pivotal in the success of Playfish but always extremely humble and generally left the promotional slots to be filled by Kristian Segerstråle and Sebastian De Halleux.
We got to know Sami during Read more

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