Venture Capital Firm Headline Closes $954 Million in Three Funds

<p align&equals;"left"><strong>SAN FRANCISCO and BERLIN<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Headline&comma; a global venture capital firm&comma; has closed &dollar;954 million in new capital across three distinct early-stage funds&colon; Headline US VII&comma; a &dollar;408M North America-focused fund based out of San Francisco&semi; Headline EU VII&comma; a €320M pan-Europe-focused fund based out of Berlin&semi; and Headline Brazil III&comma; a R&dollar;915M Latin America-focused fund based out of São Paulo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Founded in 1999&comma; Headline will use these three new funds to continue to utilize its global team and an unparalleled data-informed investment approach to identify&comma; track&comma; and invest in the fastest growing early-stage technology companies at the Seed and Series A&period; Each fund is regionally focused and independently managed by its respective local Headline team&period; However&comma; the firm unites under a single Headline culture&comma; technology&comma; and investment philosophy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Headline has grown from its Silicon Valley origins to 50&plus; investment professionals across the US and Europe&comma; including Headline’s affiliated local early-stage investment teams in Asia and Latin America&period; This latest generation of Headline early-stage funds will invest &dollar;1&period;5M to &dollar;15M into technology startups across B2B and B2C&period; A selection of Headline’s prior investments includes Acorns&comma; Angie&&num;8217&semi;s List&comma; AppFolio&comma; Bumble&comma; Creditas&comma; Farfetch&comma; Fetch Rewards&comma; Flutterwave&comma; Gopuff&comma; Grin&comma; Gympass&comma; Honeycomb&comma; Icertis&comma; Pismo&comma; The RealReal&comma; Scopely&comma; Segment&comma; SEMRush&comma; Sonos&comma; Sorare&comma; Staffbase&comma; and Yeahka&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over a decade in deployment&comma; the firm’s in-house built AI sourcing system&comma; EVA&comma; seeks to cut through bias to pinpoint companies that redefine industries regardless of background&comma; ethnicity&comma; gender&comma; or headquarter location&period; Headline’s proprietary business analytics platform&comma; ATHENA&comma; quantifies product-market fit at the earliest stages by measuring the signals of customer obsession&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Despite the recent market shifts&comma; we continue to aggressively pursue the next wave of world-changing innovation&comma;” said Mathias Schilling&comma; Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Headline US team&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve witnessed my fair share of market downturns over the past 20 years&comma; and through these times&comma; we’ve continued to seek out and cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit with a focus on the long-term&period; We believe Headline is uniquely positioned with our teams on the ground and a measured&comma; methodical approach to investment that relies on our homegrown technology&period; The Headline teams will continue to take a founder-first philosophy as we invest these funds in each region&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our early-stage focus enables us to closely work alongside the best and brightest entrepreneurs with a leader mindset to nurture their growth and accelerate market adoption&comma;” said Christian Leybold&comma; Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Headline EU team&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have built a strong multi-local portfolio of European up-and-comers by following a guiding principle&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;work as a team and with great people&comma;’ and we will continue to follow this North Star with our latest fund&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;