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Key people at Mojo Capital.
Mojo Capital operates as a collaborative investment platform, providing access to Europe's emerging digital technology champions. The firm identifies high-potential European technology companies, facilitating investments alongside venture capital funds, business angels, and family offices. This allows for focused, diversified engagement with the continent's dynamic digital sector.
Matthias Ummenhofer founded Mojo Capital in 2014, leveraging his prior experience leading the European Investment Fund's technology investment business. His core insight was to capitalize on Europe's burgeoning digital opportunities, establishing a dedicated platform for strategic investments in promising technology ventures with substantial growth prospects.
The platform serves various investor groups, including other venture capital funds, business angels, and family offices, seeking curated access to leading European digital technology firms. Mojo Capital’s vision is to impact the European digital ecosystem by nurturing companies capable of achieving significant market value, driving innovation and fostering wealth creation.
Key people at Mojo Capital.
Mojo Capital is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2014, focusing on European digital technology growth companies through a collaborative investment platform.[2][1][4] Its mission is to capitalize on Europe's digital economy by providing founders and managers access to growth financing, while offering investors opportunities in compelling digital tech startups via a participative model that includes co-investments, secondaries, and direct deals.[2][6] The investment philosophy emphasizes Europe's strengths in R&D, talent, and sectors like fintech, e-commerce, gaming, and adtech, with a hybrid strategy blending fund-of-funds and direct investments in areas such as financial services and FinTech.[1][2][6] Key sectors include digital tech growth champions, primarily in Finance, FinTech, and related fields, with investments in Germany and the UK, such as Habito (a FinTech platform).[1] Mojo Capital has made around 2 investments, led 1, peaking in 2016, influencing the European startup ecosystem by bridging local innovators to global markets like the US and Asia via its proprietary network.[1][2]
Mojo Capital was established in 2014 in Luxembourg by Matthias Ummenhofer, former head of the European Investment Fund's technology investment business, to seize Europe's emerging digital growth opportunities.[2][1][4] Founding partner Kart Siilats joined Ummenhofer in building the firm, leveraging their expertise in European VC.[7] The firm's evolution shifted from pure VC to a hybrid model managing the European Digital Opportunities Fund, integrating investments in VC funds, secondaries, co-investments, and direct stakes in digital startups, drawing on Europe's innovation hubs and talent pools.[2][6][4] Early focus highlighted thriving areas like fintech (e.g., Klarna, TransferWise) and e-commerce, with peak activity in 2016 including deals like Habito.[1][2]
Mojo Capital rides the wave of Europe's digital economy maturing into the dominant economic force, fueled by world-class R&D clusters, 500 million consumers, IT talent, and strong early-stage ecosystems.[2] Timing aligns with Europe emerging from Silicon Valley's shadow, attracting non-European capital into segments like fintech, gaming (e.g., Supercell), travel (Skyscanner), and e-commerce (Zalando), where local champions scale globally.[2] Market forces favoring it include rising strategic partnerships and investor interest, positioning Mojo to fund growth-stage digital innovators amid fragmented but vibrant hubs.[2][1] It influences the ecosystem by democratizing access to high-potential deals, supporting founders' international expansion, and highlighting Europe's competitive edge in digital innovation.[2][6]
Mojo Capital is poised to expand its hybrid model amid accelerating European digital adoption, potentially increasing direct co-investments in AI-driven fintech and e-commerce as US/Asia interest grows.[2][6] Trends like deepening tech talent pools and cross-border funding will shape its trajectory, evolving its influence from niche platform to key scaler of Europe's next unicorns.[2] With a lean track record, success hinges on replicating Habito-like wins in high-growth sectors, reinforcing its role in bridging Europe's digital promise to global stages—echoing its founding bet on the continent's tech ascent.[1][2]
