42CAP

42CAP GmbH is a German early-stage venture capital firm based in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, investing in seed-stage technology and data-driven B2B companies across Europe. The firm was founded in 2016 by General Partners Alex Meyer and Thomas Wilke, both former founders and CEOs of the eCircle (marketing-technology / email-marketing) company, which was successfully sold to Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) in 2012. 42CAP operates as a German / European B2B-specialist seed investor with a distinctive focus on data-driven / data-infrastructure / enterprise-software companies, and typically writes initial check sizes in the EUR 500,000 to EUR 2 million range as a conviction lead investor. The firm's name ''42'' references Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (where ''42'' is ''the answer to life, the universe, and everything'') aEUR" a distinctive literary branding choice. 42CAP has raised multiple institutional funds (Fund I, Fund II, Fund III) with aggregate AUM in the EUR low-hundreds of millions range across vintages. Notable portfolio companies include Agicap (French cash-flow-management SaaS unicorn, Series C led by Greenoaks and Peter Thiel's ex-partners), Tacto (procurement SaaS), Mayflower, and various other European B2B SaaS / data-technology companies.