Germany and UK-based digital investment manager Scalable Capital has secured €25m ($27.5m) in a series C round that included Tengelmann Ventures, a corporate venturing vehicle for retailer Tengelmann.
Venture capital firm HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and investment management firm BlackRock also took part in the round, which increased the company’s total funding to more than $73m.
Scalable Capital provides technology that helps users create tailored investment portfolios based on their risk appetite. It has more than $1.6bn in assets under management on behalf of more than 50,000 client portfolios.
The series C proceeds will be used to hire additional software engineers to support the company’s retail clients, and to add new services for banks, insurers and asset managers.
Erik Podzuweit, co-founder and chief executive of Scalable Capital, said: “This investment acknowledges our work to date and will further accelerate our growth.
“We want to further cement our leading market position. This new funding enables us to go after even more opportunities and to continue to invest heavily in our talent; pushing our ambitions forward across client segments.”
Blackrock led a $33.5m series B round for the company in 2017 that included Tengelmann Ventures and Holtzbrinck Ventures, both of which had contributed to a $7.9m series A round the previous year, investing alongside Monk’s Hill Ventures, German Startups Group and MPGI.
The company had previously raised $4.4m across two rounds in January and April 2015, receiving commitments from Holtzbrink Ventures, Monks Hill, German Startups Group, MPGI, Reiner Mauch, Rahul Mehta and Steffen Pauls.