What Visionaries Club does

Visionaries Club is a Berlin-headquartered, privately held venture capital firm founded in 2019 that invests across pre-seed, seed, and growth stages with an explicit focus on European AI and frontier-technology founders. The firm operates two offices (Berlin Mitte and London) with approximately 18-20 team members including General Partners Robert Lacher, Sebastian Pollok, and Judith Dada, a partner bench with deep operating backgrounds (Johann Butting ex-Slack/Dropbox/Google, Sahar Meghani ex-LinkedIn, Marton Sarkadi Nagy ex-TIER Mobility), and a dedicated platform team covering finance, events, communications and operations.

The firm's central product is the 'Visionaries cadre' — a curated network of luminary tech founders (UiPath/Daniel Dines, Lovable/Anton Osika, Hugging Face/Thomas Wolf, Adyen/Pieter van der Does, Personio/Hanno Renner, Miro/Andrey Khusid, n8n/Jan Oberhauser, Spotify, FlixBus, HelloFresh) and industrial family entrepreneurs (Swarovski, Mittal, Haniel, Stihl, Henkel, Siemens, Oetker, Fiege, Bitburger) who simultaneously serve as Limited Partners, mentors, deal-flow connectors, and early customers. Surrounding the fund are three ancillary assets: the invitation-only Visionaries Unplugged event series (Paris 2025 featured Demis Hassabis, Eric Schmidt, Dario Amodei, Arthur Mensch, Reid Hoffman), the Dadalogue Substack and Visionaries editorial publication, and the Tomorrow.vc media property.

Visionaries generates revenue through standard VC mechanics — recurring management fees on assets under management across its seed and growth vehicles plus carried interest on exits — while the operating model is explicitly anti-institutional, following a single rule of 'connecting the top 0.1% with the top 0.1%'. Deal flow is sourced primarily through the cadre rather than institutional scaling, and the firm co-invests frequently with Index Ventures, Sequoia, Accel, Balderton, Creandum, Dawn Capital and Tiger Global. Portfolio outcomes include Lovable ($6.3B valuation), n8n ($2.5B at Series C), Black Forest Labs ($3.25B at Series B), Taktile ($110M Series C), and Arculus (acquired by Jungheinrich AG, October 2021).

Name

Visionaries Club

Legal name

Visionaries Club

Website

https://visionaries.vc

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Visionaries Club is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm (founded 2019) that backs European AI and frontier-tech founders across pre-seed through growth stages, leveraging a curated cadre of luminary tech founders and industrial family entrepreneurs as LPs, mentors and customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital

NAICS

Other Financial Vehicles (525990), Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Sector-Focused Venture Capital (Vertical Specialists) (FSANAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Emerging Manager / Seeding Platforms (Multi-Manager) (FSANAGAF)

Keywords

• Venture capital
• Early-stage investing
• Growth-stage funds
• Tech founder network
• European AI startups

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Fund management fees: As a venture capital firm, Visionaries Club generates revenue from recurring management fees on assets under management across its seed and growth funds, plus carried interest (performance fees) on successful portfolio exits. Standard industry structure implied. No specific AUM or fee percentages are publicly disclosed.
2. Carried interest / performance fees: Performance-based revenue share on exits from portfolio companies. Realized when portfolio investments return capital above the fund hurdle rate. Visionaries' portfolio includes several exit-stage successes (e.g., Arculus was acquired by Jungheinrich AG in October 2021) and growth-stage holdings such as UiPath, Lovable, n8n, Hugging Face, Miro, Personio, Adyen.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Visionaries Club is a privately held venture capital firm that manages pre-seed, seed, and growth-stage investment funds deployed into European technology startups. The firm's core offering combines capital with operator mentorship and enterprise customer introductions from a curated LP cadre of luminary tech founders (UiPath, Miro, Lovable, Hugging Face, Personio, Adyen, n8n, DeepMind, Spotify, FlixBus, HelloFresh) and industrial family entrepreneurs (Swarovski, Mittal, Haniel, Stihl, Henkel, Siemens, Oetker, Fiege, Bitburger, Viessmann).

Product overview

Visionaries Club is a venture capital firm, not a software vendor. Its core offering is a thesis-driven investment platform built around the "Visionaries cadre" — a curated network of luminary tech founders and industrial family entrepreneurs who back the fund as LPs and serve as mentors, early customers, and collaborators. Surrounding the fund are three ancillary offerings that fit together as portfolio-support and brand-building layers: the Visionaries Unplugged event program (periodic invitation-only gatherings of the cadre), the Visionaries Editorial publication of long-form perspectives hosted on the Visionaries website (and cross-posted to partner Substacks), and the Tomorrow media property linked from the navigation. The firm's website also surfaces an "All Companies" portfolio directory listing roughly 40+ portfolio companies across AI infrastructure (Black Forest Labs, H Company, n8n, Tendrils), enterprise SaaS (Personio, Pigment, Miro, Tacto, Turian, Yokoy, Leapsome, Quantive, Xentral), fintech and payments (Adfin, Apron, TrueLayer, Two, Pledge), legal and compliance (CourtCorrect, Solve Intelligence, Secjur), HR and workforce (Orbio, Localyze), robotics and hardware (Allonic, Cycle, Vay), space (Pave Space), healthcare (Lindus Health, Tandem Health, Causaly), developer tools (Lovable, CodeWords, Rows, Qonversion, automaited), procurement and supply chain (Ameba, Arculus, Choco, Pallery), cybersecurity (incident.io, Ziggiz), and energy (Autarc). These portfolio companies are not Visionaries Club products; they are investees, and are listed here only to reflect the breadth of the firm's investment platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tomorrow: Visionaries-linked event/community platform accessible at tomorrow.vc and linked from the Visionaries website navigation.

Products and services

• Visionaries Pre-seed and Seed Fund Early-stage venture capital fund that invests in European AI, B2B SaaS, fintech, health, procurement, legal, robotics, and deep-tech founders from before product-market fit through seed. The fund combines capital with direct operator mentorship and enterprise customer introductions from the Visionaries cadre.
• Visionaries Early Growth Fund Growth-stage venture capital fund that invests in European B2B SaaS and AI startups at Series A and beyond, providing large-check capital, enterprise customer introductions, and corporate partnerships with industrial families.
• Visionaries Unplugged Invitation-only gathering series that convenes the Visionaries cadre — luminary founders, industrial family entrepreneurs, operators, talent, and customers — for candid conversations and portfolio-support programming.
• Visionaries Cadre A curated network of luminary tech founders (UiPath, Miro, Hugging Face, FlixBus, Lovable, n8n, Spotify, Personio, Adyen, HelloFresh, DeepMind) and industrial family entrepreneurs (Swarovski, Mittal, Haniel, Stihl, Henkel, Siemens, Oetker, Fiege, Bitburger) who serve as LPs, mentors, early customers, and collaborators for portfolio founders.

Quantifiable outcome

• Portfolio includes decacorn trajectory companies (Lovable $6.3B valuation, n8n $2.5B valuation at Series C) and $3.25B-valued Black Forest Labs
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Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Index Ventures: Pan-European early-to-growth VC with a similar sector spread (AI, fintech, SaaS, health). Index is a frequent co-investor with Visionaries (Adfin Series A, Taktile rounds) and competes for the same European technical founder cohort, but operates at a much larger AUM and stage breadth.
• Accel: Global early-to-growth VC with deep European presence (London office). Accel led n8n's $180M Series C alongside Visionaries and is a top-tier reference point for European AI founders, directly competing for the same pre-seed and seed deal flow.
• Balderton Capital: London-based European early-to-growth VC. Balderton led Taktile's Series B and Lindus Health's Series B with Visionaries participating, putting it in direct competition for Series A/B rounds in European AI/SaaS.
• Sequoia Capital: Premier global VC participating in n8n's Series C alongside Visionaries and frequently co-investing across European AI rounds. Competes for the same defining European AI companies at growth stage but with materially larger check sizes and global reach.
• Atomico: London-based European venture firm founded by Skype's Niklas Zennström. Co-invested with Visionaries in Arculus and shares the European frontier-tech / industrial thesis, though operates at larger fund scale across growth stages.

Direct peers

• Dawn Capital: London-based European B2B software specialist. Led Orbio AI's Series A with Visionaries participating, and operates a comparable stage-and-stage European SaaS/fintech thesis — overlapping target founders, similar check sizes and a similar operator-led brand identity.
• Creandum: Nordic/European early-stage VC co-leading PAVE Space's $40M seed with Visionaries and participating in Lindus Health's Series B. Directly comparable as a thesis-driven, operator-anchored European seed fund competing for AI/deep-tech founders.
• Speedinvest: Vienna-based European early-stage VC with sector-focused funds (fintech, deep tech, industrial tech, SaaS). Comparable in stage, geography and operational-support model, competing for the same German/Austrian/European AI and SaaS deal flow.
• Notion Capital: London-based European B2B SaaS specialist. Co-led Pivot's Series B with Visionaries participating and competes for the same Series A/B European SaaS/AI deal flow with comparable fund size and operator-support model.

Regional players

• Earlybird Venture Capital: Berlin-headquartered European early-stage VC focused on technology-enabled services. Direct geographic peer with similar DACH-rooted founder network, comparable check sizes at seed/Series A, and overlapping portfolio in B2B SaaS.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments96 records

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