Headline (investor - Venture Capital)

Headline (formerly e.ventures) is a global venture capital platform with an investment focus on early-stage consumer internet and mobile companies. The company was founded in Germany as BV Capital in 1997 by Jan Henric Buettner, acting as executive partner for Bertelsmann, and in 2001 was moved to San Francisco.

• founded in the Bay Area in 1997 as BV Ventures by the German media group Bertelsmann represented by Jan Henric Buettner, Wolfgang Rose, Thomas Gieselmann and Mathias Schilling. The latter two are still active with the firm. 
• it's rebranded twice since then, ending up with Headline in 2021, and are active in Europe via two offices - one in Paris, and the other in Berlin, which is the European HQ, headed by Christian Leybold.
• Headline is a generalist VC, geo and stage agnostic, with no thesis or differentiators other than the standard claim of investing in startups led by exceptional founders. They do have solid track record, exits and experience across all stages and geographies, backed by a multiculturality that's difficult to come across at the usual European VC level. 
• internally, it says it uses an in-house built AI sourcing system, dubbed EVA, which filters its pipeline of deals, plus an in-house business analytics platform, dubbed ATHENA.
• the European team is autonomous, meaning it makes its investment decisions by itself, and deploys from a €320 million pan-Europe-focused fund closed in 2022, with checks from $1.5 million up to $15 million.
• in 2024, Headline raised ​$865 million​ for a growth-stage fund, Series B and beyond in US and Europe.