Our Venture Capital team is recognised as one of the strongest in Europe and the Middle East, with the latter achieving a Chambers and Partners Global Guide 2025 band 1 ranking for 'Venture Capital & Emerging Companies'.
We advise clients across all stages of their life cycle from 'cradle to liquidity'. Our international offering includes many of the major tech hubs, such as Silicon Valley, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. We see all sides of the investment dialogue enabling us to understand and focus on the commercial drivers and drive efficiency in managing transactions.
We act for many of the most high-profile investors - from prominent early stage funds and the biggest international venture capital firms to corporate investors and sovereign wealth funds – as well as many of the most successful early and growth stage investee companies across the world. We've advised on many headline-grabbing investments in the last decade, and many clients have been clients of the firm since their inception, valuing our strategic, tactical and technical advice.
Our aim is simple, to use our heritage and continued involvement as leaders in the venture capital market to enable you to make the right decisions with confidence.
Areas of focus
Corporate venturing Employee and management participation Exit strategies (venture capital) Financing rounds (Seed, subsequent and growth financing) equity and non-equity instruments Implementation of business models Start-up advice VC funds formation Venture capital taxation Strategic digital venturesAdvice to lead investor Balderton Capital on all legal aspects of the €160 million funding for Quantum Systems, the leading provider of AI-powered air surveillance systems.
Press releaseAdvice to lead investor General Catalyst on all legal aspects of the USD 450 million Series C financing in AI defence pioneer Helsing.
Press releaseAdvice to lead investor General Catalyst on all legal aspects of the USD 223 million Series B financing in AI defence company Helsing. The investment makes Helsing Europe's largest defence AI company.
Press releaseAdvice to spacetech start-up The Exploration Company on its foundation and subsequent seed financing round by Promus Ventures, Vquared Ventures and Cherry Ventures totalling €6.8 million.
Press releaseThis values Dataiku at over USD1 billion. This is one of a long line of deals that Taylor Wessing has advised Dawn Capital on having also advised Dawn Capital on its participation in the EUR 90 million funding round for European open banking platform Tink; and its participation in the £29m Series B round for natural language processing company Eigen Technologies.
Press releaseVinted, Europe's largest online international C2C marketplace dedicated to second-hand fashion, on its EUR128 million Series E round financing which values the company at over EUR1 billion.The round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing backers including Sprints Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments.
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