Visionaries Club launches new funds

The venture capitalist wants to invest 400 million euros in promising start-ups, with a particular focus on the B2B sector.

The Berlin-based venture capitalist Visionaries Club is launching its second fund generation with a volume of 400 million euros. 150 million euros of this will flow into a seed fund. 200 million euros will go into an early growth fund. The VC will use the remaining 50 million euros to set up the "Tomorrow Fund", which will focus on science-driven cutting-edge technology from companies. In addition, the venture capitalist appoints two further partners, Sahar Meghani and Marton Sarkadi-Nagy.

Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok jointly launched the Visionaries Club in 2019. Both digital entrepreneurs and European family businesses are involved. They include many well-known names, such as the founders of Flixbus, Spotify, Personio, Sennder and Hellofresh, as well as family entrepreneurs Haniel, Stilhl, Henkel, Siemens, Oetker and Fiege.

"The VC market is currently experiencing the biggest upheaval in its history. Many new players are entering the market," says Pollok. Capital is no longer a differentiating factor for funds; instead, a good network is becoming the key to success. In addition to 20 founders that the Visionaries Club itself has already supported in the past and who have now become Limited Partners, this time non-profit organizations and universities are also looking to invest.