Thorgate Ventures

Thorgate Ventures is the seed-stage investment arm of the software company Thorgate. It grew out of founders who built their own startup and then chose to put spare capital into similar teams. The firm makes only a handful of hands-on investments in a given year, up to four, and most of them go into scalable B2B products.

What Thorgate Ventures offers

• Seed investment: early funding for teams it wants to work alongside.
• Founder mentoring: personal guidance for the people running each company.
• Product help: access to in-house developers and designers for digital products.
• Advisor network: introductions to specialists across a wide advisory circle.
• Follow-on capital: access to extra funds for later investment rounds.

Who it works with

The firm looks for teams with a good working culture, sound judgement and the ability to execute. Its portfolio spans e-waybill software, remote company set-up, factory tracking, web application security, lease management, construction software, brand asset sharing and event ticketing.

Key facts

• Co-investors: Seedcamp, Vestman Energia and Alesco Ventures
• Notable holdings: Waybiller, Xolo, GlobalReader, Eziil, Patchstack, Moderan, Remato, Brandpad and GateMe
• Parent: Thorgate