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What does Highland Europe invest in?
Highland Europe invests most often at Series B and Series C (54% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Payment, Subscription and Paytech.
Highland Europe highlights
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12 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series C: 54% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 17 rounds, median $26M
What they do
We provide growth capital for exceptional teams and total commitment to a collaborative relationshipFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $22M – $90M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- PaymentSubscriptionPaytech
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first87 appearances
- 2026
9 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- 2025
11 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
4 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Jan
- 2023
6 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Jul
- Jul
- Jan
- 2022
11 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration19 named
ARAnthony Roberto ZappalaManaging PartneriForm ADV
DBDavid BlyghtonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
FJFergal J MullenExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
GRGajan RajanathanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
HRHelena RichardsonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
IGIrena GoldenbergExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JTJean Tardy-JoubertExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JEJonathan EvansExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JMJoseph MerhaiDirectoriForm ADV
JCJulia ChapmanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
JFJulie FaircloughExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
LGLaurence GarrettExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MWMark WanlessDirectoriFiling they signed
MMMichelle McNaneyExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
PMPaul MillarExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
RSRonan ShallyExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
SBSam BrooksExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
SLStan LaurentExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
TZTony ZappalaExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 32 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$4.8Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
6+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Highland Europe (geneva) S.a.r.l.
- SEC number
- CRD 165378
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
7 of 12 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.