Digital Leaders Ventures (DLV) is a Venture Capital Fund focusing on Tech Startups in Education, Healthcare, Finance, Communication and the 4th Industrial Revolution (IoT, Sensors). In the last 12 months DLV has looked at 194 investment opportunities (all researched and actively "hunted" by our team - we declined inbound investment offers), we did 29 deep analysis on promising startups and have invested in 8 outstanding companies in USA, Israel and Europe. DLV Returns Data: 48.2% Unrealized Net IRR in the last 12 months. The DLV team has 20+ years of deep experience in digital business including founding several successful companies, raising more than $50 million in venture funding, selling 2 companies and taking one company public IPO.
GLOBAL NETWORK: DLV is leveraging its global network of investors, serial-entrepreneurs and thought-leaders to source and identify some of the most promising companies as investment opportunities. We focus on experienced founder teams, high growth and highly scalable business models with products ready to be rolled out.
CO-INVESTORS: At DLV Ignition Fund we have invested alongside a broad range of investors, such as: Michael Arrington (CrunchFund), Balderton Capital, e.Ventures, ERA NY, Floodgate Ventures, Greylock Partners, Paul Graham (Y-Combinator), Jonathan Abrams, Kima Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, Dave McClure (500 StartUps), Momentum, NewFund, Oleg Tscheltzoff (Fotolia), Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffmann, Socialatom Ventures, ZenStone Venture Capital and others.
ENTREPRENEURS TURNED INVESTORS: Digital Leaders Ventures was found by Thomas S. Enge and Monty C. M. Metzger and is headquartered in Luxembourg. We believe that the Digital Future will have far more impact than Digital History since the birth of the World Wide Web - the next 25 years will usher more change than in the previous three centuries. Besides our monetary investment of our fund we'll bring in additional value as mentors personally or potential future investors, clients or strategic partners out of our network.
Thomas S. Enge is an experienced financial executive and CFO. He worked more than 10 years as Managing Director at a Corporate Finance Advisory before he co-founded SIMYO in 2005. SIMYO is the world’s largest online based mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), operating in Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands and Belgium. SIMYO was acquired by E-Plus KPN Group. In 2010 the successful German team of SIMYO moved to Australia to build another entrepreneurial success - Amaysim. Amaysim is Australia’s first low cost mobile service provide. The team grew the company from 0 to 200+ Million A$ in annual recurring revenues ARR within 5 years and took the company public IPO at the Sydney Stock Exchange in July 2015. He found Digital Leaders Ventures as a Partner.
Monty C. M. Metzger is an experienced entrepreneur, public speaker and investor focusing on future technology and trends. In the past Monty found a global Trend Research Consultancy focusing on Venture Scouting with offices in Munich, Tokyo, Beijing and New York. After the acquisition in 2008, he started to work closely with startups, investors to invest or lead seed to growth stage fundraising projects and company acquisitions as an Investment Advisor at his company Ahead of Time. In 2013 he launched the global network of Digital Leaders and later found Digital Leaders Ventures as a Partner.
We'll syndicate all deals where DLV can get an allocation for the syndicate.
