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    Global Founders Capital

    Berlin, GermanyFounded 2013

    Global Founders Capital (GFC) is a Berlin-based venture capital firm and the global venture platform of Rocket Internet, founded in 2013. The firm invests globally across a wide range of sectors at early and growth stages, having backed over 46 unicorns, and previously raised two $1 billion funds before transitioning to deploy Rocket Internet's balance sheet capital.

    Their most common stage is seed (41% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $24.3M (across 337 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    319

    Fund Size

    $1B

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    6

    Team

    CA

    Cedric Asselman

    Investment Partners

    DS

    David Sainteff

    Investment Partners

    FP

    Fabricio Pettena

    Investment Partners

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    423 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Vly logoVlySeries A—Sep 2026
    Knode AI logoKnode AISeed—Jun 2026
    INCARD logoINCARDSeries A—Feb 2026
    Trybe logoTrybeSeries A$30MJan 2026
    Aseon Labs logoAseon LabsSeed$10MJan 2026
    Chari logoChariSeries A—Oct 2025
    PHAGOS logoPHAGOSSeries A—Oct 2025
    Yaso logoYasoSeries A—Sep 2025
    Aspora logoAsporaSeries B—May 2025
    HeyMarvin logoHeyMarvinUnknown$11MJan 2025
    Yaso logoYasoSeries A—Jan 2025
    Alaan logoAlaanSeed$2.5MJan 2025
    Jupiter logoJupiterSeries B$45MJan 2025
    Distributed Spectrum logoDistributed SpectrumSeries A—Jan 2025
    Aspora logoAsporaSeries A$35MDec 2024
    Distru logoDistruSeries A$6MNov 2024
    MODIFI logoMODIFISeries B$15MNov 2024
    Yoto logoYotoSeries A$17MJun 2024
    Simplify logoSimplifySeed$3MFeb 2024
    HeyJobs logoHeyJobsSeries B$64MJan 2024
    Pacaso logoPacasoSeed$125MJan 2024
    LemFi logoLemFiSeries A$33MAug 2023
    Bunker logoBunkerSeed—Jul 2023
    Maza logoMazaSeed$8MJun 2023
    Aibidia logoAibidiaSeries A$14MMay 2023
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    Top Co-Investors

    Founders Fund82 shared
    Y Combinator71 shared
    Soma Capital28 shared
    Picus Capital19 shared
    FJ Labs18 shared
    Gaingels18 shared
    Accel15 shared
    Endeavor14 shared
    Alven12 shared
    Acton Capital12 shared
    Felicis12 shared
    Kaszek11 shared
    8VC11 shared

    Last updated: 20 October 2026