๐ป A Vintage double feature at @bitsandpretzels ๐ฅจ
Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of joining an incredible gathering of Europeโs venture and technology community in Munich.
Leyla Holterud, Partner and Head of our London office, joined Michael Wax, GP at @blueyard, a long-time portfolio fund of Vintage, for a fireside unpacking a real fund selection decision, from the first meeting and what mattered in diligence to how the relationship has developed since. Leyla also hosted a roundtable on VC secondaries.
Ilan Leiferman, Partner and Chief Value Officer, joined Patrick Dreisch (@AnthropicAI) and Nathan Gruber (Manex AI) at the CIO Summit for โBuilding Europeโs Industrial AI Champions,โ moderated by Ines Ivokoviฤ (COBE). Exploring how Europe can build global Industrial AI leaders, a topic closely connected to Ilanโs work leading Value+, connecting enterprises with startups addressing their business challenges.
Two conversations reflecting the connected perspective we bring across venture managers, founders and enterprises.
#Bits26
Replying to @GuardioSecurity
@GuardioSecurity is officially a unicorn, but the valuation is only one part of the story.
The company has raised $40 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, after surpassing $150 million in ARR and one million paying customers, with four consecutive years of triple-digit growth.
As AI makes scams cheaper, more sophisticated and increasingly personal, Guardio has built cybersecurity around a simple but important idea: protect the person, not just the device.
We have been proud supporters of Guardio and are excited to continue backing @amospeled, Michael Vainshtein, Daniel Sirota and the entire team as they build the future of consumer cybersecurity.
Proud to continue the journey alongside @EmergeVentures , ION Crossover Partners, Union Tech Ventures , and to welcome @assaf_rappaport to an incredible group of supporters.
Congratulations to the entire Guardio team on this major milestone!
@AsafHoresh
Proud to continue backing @alice_dot_io as it announces its $140M funding round!
Alice has spent nearly a decade understanding how bad actors exploit technology, and is now bringing that experience to one of the most important challenges in AI: making sure models and agents behave exactly as intended.
Trusted by 8 out of the 10 leading AI labs, such as @AnthropicAI, @Google, and @cohere, Alice brings nearly a decade of real-world adversarial intelligence to frontier AI, while already protecting more than 3 billion people globally, across 117+ languages.
We are very proud to be longtime supporters of @NoamSCH and the Alice team, and to continue being part of the journey as they build the security infrastructure for the AI era.
๐ธ Credit: Eduardo Feldman
August may be for Mai Tais, family vacations, and letting the kids run a little wild. It is also a good moment to take a pause before the second half of the year begins in earnest
The first half of 2026 was a busy one for Vintage, with investments in exceptional funds and companies and our global network coming together around the world.
๐ผ In Paris, we hosted the inaugural Vintage Enterprise AI Summit alongside @RaiseSummit, featuring @ScottWu46 (@cognition) and @PGelsinger (@Playground_VC and former @intel CEO).
In New York, Vintage leadership joined portfolio company founders @rauchg (@vercel) and @sanazyashar (@Zafran_io ) at @BernsteinPWMโs Investor Insights Day.
Along the way, the Vintage team traveled the globe, shared insights, hosted conversations, and created new connections across our community of founders, investors, and enterprise leaders.
For the full Vintage View, visit: content.vintage-ip.com/vintaโฆ
Plenty more ahead, including our 20th annual VC Summit later this year ๐
The AI economy will be built on trust.
As AI agents begin to reason and act across critical systems, enterprises need to understand not only what they are doing, but why.
Weโre proud to invest in @onyx_security, which is building the control layer for the agentic era, using AI to monitor AI and provide context-aware oversight in real time.
Congratulations to @maximbarkogan, @gil_elbaz_ , and the entire Onyx team on the $113M Series B.
@iren_reznikov
Earlier this month we hosted the first-ever Vintage Enterprise AI Summit in Paris ๐ซ๐ทโจ
A huge thank you to our partners @UnframeAI, @alice_dot_io, @DecartAI, @HappyRobot, @USTglobal, and to @RaiseSummit , @amarmic, and @HenriDelahaye for bringing such an exceptional global AI community together in Paris. It was an honor to partner with you and build this alongside the broader RAISE week ๐ฅ
This is Value+ in action: bringing the right founders, enterprises, investors, and LPs together, and turning those connections into lasting value.
Look out for the next edition! ๐
Last week, we hosted our first-ever ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐ at Cheval Blanc Paris. ๐ผ
We wanted to bring enterprise executives, investors, and a select group of founders into the same room to discuss a question that is becoming increasingly important:
How will enterprises operate, compete, and evolve in an agentic world?
A huge thank you to our partners @alice_dot_io (Formerly ActiveFence), @DecartAI, @HappyRobot, @UnframeAI, and @USTglobal for helping bring this to life.
We ended the day with a rooftop reception overlooking the Seine, where we were also fortunate to host Yinon C. (Wiz).
It was a privilege to partner with @RaiseSummit, whose team built a phenomenal conference bringing together top minds from around the world to discuss AI across the stack.
Thank you to every speaker, enterprise leader, founder, investor, partner, and friend of Vintage who joined us and made the day so meaningful.
Our very own @iren_reznikov joined a special Israel Economy Channel panel marking 250 years of U.S.โIsrael relations ๐ฅ [Hebrew Clip below]
As she noted during the discussion, Israeli cybersecurity companies account for approximately 40% of global private cyber investmentโa testament to the strength of the ecosystem and a foundation for the next generation of innovation. But Israeli tech is more than just cyber...
Thank you to @ValleyBank and The Economy Channel for bringing together an important discussion on the future of the U.S.โIsrael technology partnership.
Congratulations to the entire @8vc team on the close of your new $1.5B fund!
We're proud to be among the backers of a firm that has consistently backed ambitious founders building category-defining companies across AI, enterprise software, defense, healthcare, logistics, and industrial technology.
As AI continues to reshape every sector, we're excited to see 8VC double down on supporting founders tackling some of the world's most consequential challenges.
Congratulations to @JTLonsdale , @andrewoetting , @AlexKolicich, Jin-Young Kim, @JakeMedwell, and the entire 8VC partnership on this milestone!
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Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of returning to SuperVenture Berlin with double representation from the Vintage team.
Our Co-Managing Partner, @AsafHoresh , opened Day 2 with his keynote, "Insights on Global Venture," continuing a tradition we're proud to be part of each year. He shared perspectives from Vintage's global venture platform on the trends shaping the market.
Later that day, our Partner, Leyla Holterud, joined the panel "Exit strategies and alternative liquidity solutions," discussing today's liquidity landscape and drawing on Vintage's experience across our Growth, Fund of Funds, and Secondaries strategies.
It was a fantastic few days of reconnecting with longtime friends, meeting new faces, and sharing perspectives with the global venture community.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello. See you next year, SuperVenture! @SuperReturn
Paris. Enterprise AI. An exceptional group of leaders in one room. Sounds like the first ever ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐! ๐ท
On July 7, Vintage will host the Enterprise AI Summit as part of @RaiseSummit 2026, bringing together enterprise executives, founders, and investors shaping the future of AI.
We're excited to welcome:
โข Guy-Laurent Arpino, CIO, @WeAreLDC
โข Caroline Basyn, CDIO, @AdeccoGroup
โข Alessandro De Luca, Head of Digital Enterprise Solutions & Group CIO, @merckgroup
โข @ScottWu46, Co-Founder & CEO, @cognition
โข Dr. @DLeitersdorf, Co-Founder & CEO, @DecartAI
โข Kevin Fender, South EMEA Partnership Lead, @AnthropicAI
โข @shaylevi2, Co-Founder & CEO, @UnframeAI
โข @annimaniac, Co-Founding Partner, @floodgatefund
โข @NoamSCH, Co-Founder & CEO, @alice_dot_io
โข Andy Walter, Former SVP IT & CIO, @ProcterGamble - and Vintage Strategic Advisory Board memeber!
โข @SajeshGopinath, Chief Transformation Officer, UST
Looking forward to a day of meaningful conversations, new connections, and practical insights with the leaders building and deploying the next generation of enterprise AI.
See you in Paris.
Apply to attend: luma.com/vulqxv52
A huge congratulations to the @seedcamp team on announcing $320M in new capital to back the next generation of global technology companies!
At Vintage, we're proud long-time backers of Seedcamp and have had a front-row seat to their remarkable ability to identify exceptional founders before the market catches on.
For nearly two decades, Seedcamp has been backing category-defining companies in Europe like Revolut, Wise, UiPath, Synthesia, and Fluidstack at their earliest stages.
Their new $220M Seedcamp VII fund and $100M Select Fund reinforce a strategy we've long believed in: supporting the world's most ambitious founders from day one and continuing to back them as they scale globally.
We're especially excited to see Seedcamp deepen its presence in the U.S., creating even more opportunities for European founders to build global businesses from the outset.
Congratulations to the entire Seedcamp team on this milestone. ๐ ๐ ๐
@rsohoni @SiaHouchangnia @tom_wils @cee @AsafHoresh

















