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Matus Maar

co-founder & Managing Partner @ Talis Capital

London, England

Work Experience

  • 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.

  • 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