Rocket Internet chief Oliver Samwer, his brother Marc,
and former Delivery Hero co-CEO Fabian Siegel are teaming up to start Global
Founders Capital: a new €150 million ($194 million) fund for high-potential
Internet businesses.
Global Founders Capital, headquartered in Munich,
Germany, lists the three above as partners and will invest from a €150 million
fund provided by unknown “various successful Internet entrepreneurs.” It will
be “stage-agnostic,” providing anything from seed to late-stage funding to
businesses with the potential to become very large in one or multiple markets.
The new fund will be location-agnostic too – although,
given Rocket Internet’s recent flurry of activity in Africa, southeast Asia,
the Middle East, and Latin America, it wouldn’t surprise if those locations are
of particular interest.
