Matus Maar
co-founder & Managing Partner @ Talis Capital
London, England
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Min Investment:
$1,000,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$4,000,000.00
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Work Experience
2012
co-founder & Managing Partner
2012
Helping founders build category defining companies - Darktrace, Onfido, Howl, Ynsect, Pricefx, Seqera Labs, PortalOne I led our investments / serve on the boards of: Darktrace, Onfido, Pricefx, Howl, Ynsect, Garten, Plum Guide, iwoca, Rubi Laboratories, Pirate.com, Threads Styling, Andium, DayDayCook, Carta
2015
Led Series A in 2015 - IPO 2021 LON:DARK
2015
www.darktrace.com Led $10m Series A (first outside round) round in March 2015. Summit Partners, KKR, Softbank, Samsung, Insight & Vitruvian invested since then and Darktrace IPO in May 2021 hit $10bn LON:DARK
2016
Co-led early Series B
2016
Co-led early round of Onfido in 2016 as part of $25m Series B together with Wellington partners, Idinvest, CrunchFund and Salesforce Ventures. TPG led the Series C
2016
Co-led Seed
2016
Talis Capital and Credo led the €4m Series A in November 2016. Bain&Co, Ytrium and Apax Digital led Series B and C.
2015
Led Seed Round
2015
I led the Seed round in 2015 with NEA participating. Followed in Series A, led by Highland Capital Partners.
2019
Led Seed & Series A
2019
www.laced.com I concept funded Laced in 2018 and then led Seed and Series A.
2023
Led Seed Round
2023
https://www.rubi.earth
2019
Board
2019
Insect protein start-up Ynsect raised $125m Series C from Talis Capital and led by Astanor Ventures.
2018
Led Seed Round
2018
Talis led $20m Series Seed in 2018 together with BackedVC, Y Combinator and Stanford-StartX.
2016
Led Seed & Series A
2016
www.luminance.com Legal AI Talis Capital led the Series A in November 2016