Top Down Ventures

We invest in capital-efficient SaaS companies ready to take the next big jump. Our founder's roots run deep. Entrepreneurs ourselves, for thirty years our mission has been to help tech founders grow and realize their vision. Our first decade focused on financial advisory, having advised over 200 tech firms on high-value outcomes. Operators at heart, we launched Kennet’s US presence in 2000 with a focus on helping founder-led bootstrapped companies achieve their potential. Over the past 20 years, we have taken an entrepreneurial approach to international investing by combining analytics, talent, and capital to cultivate over 50 high-growth ventures with almost $1 billion invested globally. In 2021, Kennet recapitalized, and the North American and European teams restructured to focus on their respective markets. The result is Savant Growth; a US fund with a powerful software and operations platform dedicated to accelerating growth for capital-efficient SaaS companies. Our mission is to help our founders/CEOs build high-growth market-leading companies. We do not work alone. We have the power of our operations platform through DevSavant and SaleSavant. We continue to partner with Kennet, managing Kennet V's and Kennet VI's US investment program. Together, we work to achieve global market leadership for our companies.

The network, expertise and resources you need to make it happen. Imagine you had a partner in your journey through the expansion stage. Someone who has been there before – hired a Head of Product, optimized growth funnels, fine-tuned pricing and packaging, scaled GTM strategies and so much more. Our team is here to help bring to bear the network, expertise and operational resources you need to make it all happen. Once we understand what will move the needle in your business, we dig in to help. You’re in control, but we plug in at all levels of your organization to help you organize, prioritize and extend the reach of your team in the areas that matter most: acquisition & conversion, retention & expansion, corporate development, pricing & packaging and executive network.

As former entrepreneurs and operators, we have been in your shoes. We have founded, built and sold companies; we have recruited and led employees and management teams; and we have tackled many of the challenges that are unique to early-stage companies. With over 100 years of collective experience as founders, operators and board members, we have plenty of scar tissue and insights to help you avoid pitfalls and to optimize your business. We consider every investment to be a long-term partnership and aim to bring much more than just capital to help you build your company. In addition to evaluating every investment on the fundamentals, we are particularly interested in finding opportunities that leverage our experiences and unique resources. We focus only on industry segments that we know extremely well and where we have deep, relevant networks that can be tapped for our companies. We love early-stage technology investing and are energized by working with brilliant entrepreneurial minds. We are excited to share our operational experience and entrepreneurial instincts. We are a small team, which allows us to be responsive and nimble, working at the same clock speed as our entrepreneurial partners. We bring complementary backgrounds and leverage every member of our team for every company.

For the past decade, 212 has been the leading venture capital firm backing B2B tech startups. The key has been our extensive global network. Our success is built on helping daring entrepreneurs expand globally through our differentiated emerging market approach across many different market cycles. $85 M COMMITTED CAPITAL $170M AUM $2B+ PORTFOLIO VALUE 200+ COUNTRIES SERVED 5K+ COMPANIES REVIEWED 2K+ JOBS FILLED ACROSS PORTFOLIO Funding the future, together 212 does more than invest in the region. Our lens, like our network, is global. Our focus is local, with founders and their teams. We reshape the future by enabling tech-savvy entrepreneurs to solve difficult problems. Growth Fund (Series A+) At 212, our goal is to back bold, early-stage tech companies across Turkey, CEE, and MENA. Currently, we manage €86M of committed capital and have 19 active investments. Our strategy is to advance B2B tech solutions with demonstrated traction, a precise product-market fit, and founders who are ready and eager to scale internationally. ‘Test Local, Go Global’ is 212’s guiding principle. That means we’re eager to invest in individuals and communities, with an eye of going global. Our boutique venture capital firm has deeply rooted global networks that help expand and guide entrepreneurs with challenges, whatever those challenges are and may be. Our ‘212 Growth Partner’ program encapsulates this. It is an initiative that provides value-added services to our portfolio companies. All of this has helped us to create +$2B in value over the past decade. That includes Iyzico’s successful exit in 2019, with a USD $168 million valuation. Insider is another 212 portfolio company that has made a tremendous difference. A Sequoia-backed company with a female founder, it recently closed another investment round with a USD $1.2B valuation – making it the first B2B unicorn to come out of Turkey. To date, Fund II has invested in 16 remarkable companies: 123 Form Builder, App Samurai, Artboard Studio, Avatao, Bolt Insight, Chooch, Fazla Gida, MallIQ, Marti, Meddy, Metrobi, OMMA, SmartMessage, Trio Mobil and Wellbees. In August 2020, we ended with a fund size of €49M. And we’re not done. 212 is currently fundraising for Fund III, a target size of €70M. Simya International Accelerator Fund (Pre-seed, seed) Simya International Accelerator Fund in partnership with Alchemist, focuses on earlier-stage B2B technology startups. Simya supports technology startups from day one through a fast, innovative, and transparent investment process by providing crucial guidance and access to global networks.

Vi erbjuder kapital och operativa resurser till snabbväxande tech bolag. Vår mission är att hjälpa dig som entreprenör att maximera oddsen till framgång. Vi är där innovation möts och förändras. Vi leder teknikföretag till nya vägar och hjälper dem fatta beslut. Disruption är vår kärna – vi utmanar det gamla och visar vägen till framtiden. Vi driver din vision framåt, alltid tillsammans. Tillsammans för tillväxt Hands-On: Vi är engagerade medbyggare av ditt techbolag. Vi föredrar att delta i utmanande säljsamtal framför att sitta i varma styrelserum och erbjuder den expertis du behöver för att bygga ditt tillväxtföretag. Vi strävar efter att vara det stöd vi själva önskade att vi hade under våra tidiga tillväxtresor som techentreprenörer. En partner som erbjuder både kapital och operativa resurser inom försäljning, varumärkesbyggande, IT-utveckling, HR, rekrytering, affärsledning och finansiering. 10X: Vårt mål är att minst 10-dubbla intäkterna för de techbolag vi investerar i. Vi har redan lyckats med detta med företag som Vaccina och StudentConsulting. Vi kallar detta tillväxtkoncept 10X. Tillväxt är den största faktorn för värdeskapande i unga teknikföretag. Högre intäkter leder till högre företagsvärde och minskade risker för dig som entreprenör. Vårt erbjudande ökar sannolikheten för att bygga ett långsiktigt lönsamt företag. Evergreen: Vi skiljer oss från andra investerare. Vår investering är evergreen eftersom vi tror på långsiktig företagsbyggande, särskilt för unga techbolag. Vi stödjer ditt företag genom alla dess faser, utan förutbestämda tidsramar. Om du som entreprenör vill lämna under resans gång, säljer vi tillsammans med dig. Vi är långsiktiga i visionen, men kortsiktiga i genomförandet. Vårt mål är att fler små, svenska techbolag ska växa sig stora.

Our strategic alignment with AWS and cloud expertise provides unrivaled growth opportunities to early-stage businesses Our experienced management team has an intricate understanding of the challenges early-stage companies face at each stage of their journey. Our core value proposition is centered around a strategic alignment with AWS, complimented by our own in-house technical and commercial cloud expertise. This powerful combination provides unrivaled growth opportunities to early-stage businesses, transforming visions into reality. Our value proposition has been designed to offer value-added, programmatic services, encompassing the following areas: Technical: Access to a deep bench of cloud specialists who can be instantly deployed to help in areas such as information security, compliance, workload migration, cost and infrastructure optimisation, plus much more. Commercial: Enterprise go-to-market expertise and access to a carefully curated community of global Enterprise decision-makers. We go beyond surface-level Enterprise introductions to provide tangible growth opportunities through bespoke Innovation workshops. AWS Expertise: Underpinning the above is our in-depth knowledge of AWS teams, services, products, and programs, which foster the connections required for seamless growth.