Pitch has raised EUR 27 million in a financing round led by Thrive Capital with follow-on investments from Index, Blue Yard, Slack and other angel investors.

Pitch is building a new kind of presentation software with collaboration features to revolutionize the market. The round coincided with the launch of their invite-only beta product launch. During 2018, Pitch raised Seed & Series A rounds of combined ca. EUR 16 million also with the support of LACORE.

LACORE has advised the company since its incorporation. LACORE’s involvement on the negotiation and successful closing of this important financing round reinforces our commitment to support fast-growing companies with global market potential.

Pitch.io was advised by André Eggert, Yamila Eraso, Katrin Mühlstädt (corporate), Alexander Stolz (IP) and Magda Grünenwald (Data Protection).

LACORE has advised Joblift GmbH on its Series-B round, which was led by Luxembourg-based venture capital fund Redline Capital. The round amounting to EUR 15 million was joined by several existing investors, such as DN Capital, Cherry Ventures, btov and TruVenturo.

The company offers a meta-search engine for jobs that brings together job offers from various portals, such as Stepstone or Monster.

LACORE’s team led by André Eggert, together with Yamila Eraso and Stefanie Berges (corporate law) supported the company and management through the negotiation and successful closing of this round.

A LACORE team led by Partner, Natalie Vahsen, has advised the shareholders of foodspring around the lead investor ECONA AG on the sale of foodspring to Mars Inc. foodspring is a start-up focussing on sports nutrition and the development of a platform for personalised nutrition.

The LACORE team consisted of: Natalie Vahsen, Yamila Eraso, Theresa Scharff, Stefanie Berges (all Corporate M&A), Maria Höricke (IP) as well as Magda Grünenwald (IT/Data Protection).

Anna Huttenlauch and Philipp Trube from Blomstein advised on antitrust matters of the transaction.

Berlin-based startup Inkitt runs a crowdsourced publishing platform for stories and books. It today contains 350,000 stories from 110,000 writers and a community of 1.6M readers all over the globe. Its success has impressively demonstrated that despite of the rise of movie streaming services there is still a substantial demand for written stories. This has now attracted big names in the venture capital industry to propel Inkitt’s next level of growth and success. Kleiner Perkins, Holtzbrinck Ventures and others invested a total of 16M USD into the company that is advised by LACORE since its early days.

This transaction has been advised by
André Eggert, Magda Grünenwald, Yamila Eraso

LACORE advised the Meditation Company GmbH on its Seed financing round of more than 2 Million Euro. Investors are among others Atlantic Labs and the Seattle based VC Vela Partners. The Company offers the well-known meditation app Meditopia, which has currently more than 4.5 million members.

Prior to the Seed Financing Round LACORE has supported the turkish Company with the implementation of a holding structure in Germany.

The Meditation Company was advised by André Eggert and Sohrab Beheshtipour (Corporate).

LACORE advised the Berlin based Lyght GmbH on its Seed financing round. The company rents out furniture on a temporary basis. Investor is, among others, Rocket Internet. According to Lyght the fresh money shall be used to enlarge the team and to offer the rental in other German cities.

Lyght was advised by André Eggert and Sohrab Beheshtipour (Corporate).

LACORE advised the Berlin based Remind.me GmbH on its Series A financing round of 2 Million Euros. Investors are, among others, Berliner Volksbank Ventures and IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft with their VC fund for creative business. According to Remind.me the fresh money shall be used to further develop the platform and extent the cooperations. LACORE has been supporting Remind.me already in previous financing transactions.

Remind.me was advised by André Eggert, Magda Grünenwald and Katrin Mühlstädt (Corporate).

Canva Pty Ltd is an Australian based startup which runs a graphic design platform. With the acquisition of the free stock image website Pixabay, Canva’s design community will be able to discover images from Pixabay and use them in their Canva designs, free of charge. Canva is currently valued at US$2.5 billion.

LACORE’s team supporting this transaction consisted of André Eggert, Sohrab Beheshtipour (both corporate), Alexander Stolz (IP), Magda Grünenwald (data protection), and Dr. Linda Kurta (employment).

LACORE advised YFood Labs GmbH on its latest financing. The Munich based start-up has received around 4 million euros from the Paris-based food investor Five Seasons Ventures, among others.

The former investment bankers Noel Bollmann and Benjamin Kremer founded YFood in May 2017 and sell liquid meals in supermarkets and drugstores as well as online.

YFood was advised by André Eggert and Magda Grünenwald (Corporate).

LACORE is proud to have advised ubitricity, a Berlin-based and a Global Cleantech 100 listed company that provides residential on-street charging solutions and infrastructure for electric vehicles, on its Series C financing round. In this round, in addition to the existing investors, the multinational corporation Honda invested.

LACORE has advised ubitricity since its early stage. Natalie Vahsen together with André Eggert, Yamila Eraso and Sohrab Beheshtipour (all corporate) advised the company in the negotiation and closing of this successful transaction.