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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · today 04:00 EDT

‘Great businesses are often built in the shadows’: Amsterdam’s henQ raises €67.57M for fund 5 to back ‘boring-market’ B2B gems

Amsterdam’s henQ launches €90M fifth fund to back Europe’s B2B software founders. Here’s what Jan Andriessen, Partner at henQ, has to say in our interview. Amsterdam-based henQ, an early-stage VC fund that invests in European early-stage B2B software businesses, has announced the first close of its fifth fund — henQ 5, raising €67.57M with a ... Read more

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