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__Berlin, 21 April 2022.__ Project A Ventures, one of the leading early-stage tech investors in Europe, announces the promotion of [Christoph Rösler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-roesler/) to Partner. Christoph Rösler will be co-leading the firm’s growing Private Equity Investment Practice alongside General Partner Ben Fischer. 

In the last years, Project A has established a successful private equity co-investment practice in addition to its early-stage venture capital activities. The firm has built a portfolio of over 10 companies including LUQOM Group, Amann Girrbach and yoummday. 

Christoph Rösler will be responsible for co-investing in buyout and private equity growth transactions with renowned PE funds such as 3i or Triton. He has been leading value creation programs across Project A’s entire private equity portfolio over the past years.

Christoph Rösler joined Project A in 2015. He has held multiple positions within Project A and was an integral part in forming the company’s operational support team. He has founded and led the Sales & Customer Success team, and oversaw the entire operational support as Director Venture Development. Before moving over into the investment team in 2019, he served Project A as Chief Commercial Officer. He has worked with over 40 of our portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Project A, Christoph worked at company builder Rheingau Founders and led the commercial team at SaaS company itembase. Christoph was educated in London at London School of Economics (LSE) and WHU.


Project A promotes Christoph Rösler to Partner to co-lead private equity co-investment practice

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Project A promotes Christoph Rösler to Partner

__Berlin, 6 April 2022.__ Project A invests alongside Insight Partners in [ExpressGroup](https://expressgroup.io/), a Hamburg-based fintech that democratizes financial services for the working and middle classes. ExpressGroup’s next-gen tax platform brings a new level of convenience to the German and European income tax market. 

With “ExpressSteuer” taxpayers can claim their refund regardless of income, language barriers, or knowledge of the tax system. The product was well received by the target audience allowing the company to grow to over €45 million GMV run rate in under 12 months. The €25M funding will be used to grow the organization internationally and to launch aligned products in more fintech verticals.

__Dr Anton Waitz__, General Partner at Project A, stated: “ExpressGroup brings positive change to the lives of a very large group of people that have been underserved with easy-to-use digital tools so far. The incredible traction of the ExpressSteuer product will motivate Max and the team to build out their offering and make it available to a mass audience in Germany and beyond.” 


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__London, 3.3.2022__. Project A announces Sam Cash’s promotion to Partner, to continue to head the European venture capital firm’s London office. Since 2019 Sam has built Project A’s presence in London and has partnered with a number of founders locally and across the continent.

Expanding the firm's reach to London has been essential for Project A, an operational VC who looks to partner with leading founders across Europe. Sam along with the team in London have built strong relationships with founders and the broader ecosystem in one of the key global hubs for startup creation and talent. Project A has been able to partner with London based companies such as World Remit, Unmind and Electric Gamebox, amongst others.

Prior to Project A, Sam was a Vice-President at betaworks, a New York based startup studio - where he co-founded Studios, a network of community spaces designed to facilitate startup creation amongst technologists, creators, entrepreneurs and investors. Previously, Sam was a Senior Associate at London based growth-stage venture capital firm Hedosophia where he invested in companies such as Compass (NYSE: COMP), amongst others. Sam started his career at Naya, a London based technology, media and telecoms investment fund.Sam was educated in London at UCL and the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle.

“With Sam, we welcome an excellent investor to the partner round who has built up our presence in London for the last three years. The UK has always been one of the world’s major technology hubs, and commands a significant portion of both capital and talent. We hope to expand our activities here with Sam leading our great team on the ground”, says __Uwe Horstmann__, General Partner and Co-founder at Project A Ventures.

Project A promotes Sam Cash to Partner 

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__Berlin, 10.02.2022.__ [Armira Growth](https://www.armira.de/armira-en) and Project A invest €30M in the customer service platform yoummday. yoummday is an all-in-one solution for customer experience which brings the new work model into the world of customer services. Using yoummday’s w@h OS, companies have access to a large pool of customer service talents who work flexibly from home to offer the best possible support for clients.

Traditional contact centres for customer service often work on the same principle: Brick and mortar cubicle offices and fixed working hours, a situation which is also associated with inflexibility, lack of motivation and low pay for employees. At the same time requirements for customer service agents are increasing while manpower shortages and cost reductions put pressure on the industry.

yoummday takes a completely different approach. Using a comprehensive technology platform, yoummday configures and controls a work@home operating system which gives customers access to more than 35.000 registered multilingual talents from over 65 countries worldwide. The platform automatically matches talents with customers when they fulfil the requirements profile for their project. Thus agents remain flexible and receive better payment whereas companies have access to the talent they need and manage all operating processes via yoummday’s technology.

The growth funding which is a private equity co-investment of Armira Growth and Project A, is going to be used to scale the company’s technology and expand the business internationally by acquiring traditional call centers in Europe and integrating them in the yoummday w@h OS platform.

__Florian Heinemann__ states: "We believe yoummday has cracked the biggest problem in customer service as traditional contact centres have outlived themselves. yoummday, with its platform-based new work model, has the potential to tap into any market and scale customer service for companies, small or large, at any given time."

yoummday receives €30M growth funding to bring ‘new work’ to customer services

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yoummday secures €30M growth funding from Armira Growth and Project A

__Berlin, 8.2.2022.__ Project A healthcare technology portfolio company [Klara](https://www.klara.com/) is acquired US-based ModMed. Klara has grown into a leader in patient communication and collaboration whose platform empowers patients to take more control of their healthcare experience and practices to increase efficiency. Project A first invested in 2016 in Klara's seed funding round. 

Klara’s platform is designed to enable collaboration and communication between practice and patient, including how patients discover, select and engage with a provider. The last two year's have shown that this has become more important than ever.

“ModMed is well-known for its deep focus on healthcare technology research and development and for taking a customer-led approach to helping providers create efficiencies and save time,” said Simon Bolz, Co-Founder of Klara. 

Read more [here](https://www.klara.com/blog/modmed-acquires-maker-of-the-klara-practice-patient-collaboration-platform).

Exit: Patient collaboration platform Klara is acquired by ModMed

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__Berlin, 18.01.2022.__ Cyber insurance company Baobab raises a $4.2 million pre-seed financing round led by Project A Ventures to protect organizations from existing and emerging cyber threats. Additional investors include La Famiglia, Discovery Ventures and several angel investors such Christopher Oster and Marco Adelt (Clark), Michael Riegel (Comtravo), Hanno Fichtner (Gabi), Emilios Markou and Alexis Pantazis (Hellas Direct), Philippe Mota and Jan Beckers (Bit Capital & Ioniq) as well as Martin Kissinger (Lendable).

Baobab aims at making small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) more resilient against cyber risks by combining cyber insurance and security measures to offer holistic risk management. The demand for cyber insurance is growing. Attackers have automated vulnerability discovery and are increasingly targeting SMEs which are rarely insured against cyber threats such as ransomware, DDOS and data breaches.

Baobab insures companies against damages caused by cyberattacks such as business interruptions, liabilities and service costs. On top of that, Baobab reduces risks by assessing potential threats, providing attack surface management as well as continuous monitoring and vulnerability checks to protect customers from further exposure to hacks. 

__Sam Cash__, Principal at Project A, says: “The cyber insurance market is at a unique inflection point, with demand for coverage exploding and incumbents retrenching given the complexities of pricing. We’re happy to be partnering with Vincenz and Anton, who are seasoned insurtech operators. Baobab has a unique approach in Europe which specifically targets the needs of SMEs who increasingly become targets of cyberattacks.”

For more information, go to [Baobab.io](https://www.baobab.io/).

Protecting SMEs against cyber threats: Project A invests in Insurtech Baobab

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