Our portfolio company Planday, a workforce management platform, is being acquired by the Australian publicly traded company Xero Limited. Congratulations to Planday and Xero! LeadX Capital Partners wishes you a successful future together. Onwards and upwards Christian Brøndum, Anders Frederiksen, Chris Micklethwaite, Stephen Lucas and Toni Hohlbein. Together with our renowned co-investors CREANDUM, Idinvest Partners, and SEB, we have been part of an amazing high growth journey. It was a pleasure working with you Sofie Skough, Victor Lang, Johan Brenner and Guillaume Durao.

The recipe app KpntCook, one of our portfolio companies, has grown strongly throughout the last year by providing new inspiring recipes to their users on a daily basis. Miele has now acquired a majority stake in KptnCook. We congratulate the founders Eva and Alex and their team. Read the full story on Business Insider here (DE).

Our portfolio company, Bizay, closed a funding round of €32 million in December 2020 to further strengthen their R&D and continue to support their customers with highly individualized printing solutions and promotional products. We congratulate CEO Sérgio Vieira and his team and are exited to be part of the round. Read the full story on EIB’s commitment here. You can read Techcrunch’s take on the round here.

Matsmart, one of our portfolio companies, expanded into Germany earlier this year under the name “Motatos”. The company offers a creative solution for saving food across the supply chain, e.g. products that wouldn’t even make it to the supermarket shelves. Alexander Holzknecht, Country Manager Germany, explains how Motatos already manages to save yearly 1,500 tons of food from being wasted in Germany alone.

Our portfolio company Yoyo, a leading UK-based marketing, payments and loyalty solution, and wiGroup, the South African-based mobile rewards software company announced today that they are joining forces to create a global loyalty company under the Yoyo brand. The new Yoyo will service existing and new clients through its combined operations in the UK, Europe, Africa, and Australasia. Read more here.