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Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe) — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.5M Checks)

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San Francisco, California, United StatesWebsite

Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe) is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, United States investing in Other, Marketplace, Consumer. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.5M checks and has 40 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$250K–$1.5M
Portfolio
40 companies on record
Partners
15 listed
AUM
$4B
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, Marketplace, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise, Fintech, AI / ML, Developer Tools
HQ
San Francisco, California, United States

Last verified: 2026-10-06

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.5M

AUM

$4.0B

Portfolio

40+ companies

Team

15 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Headline invests globally across stages and sectors, from early-stage companies backed by regional funds to Series B and later companies backed by its global growth fund. Its stated areas include consumer, fintech, infrastructure, and software.

How Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe) invests

Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe) is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Marketplace, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise.

Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe) typically writes checks of $250K–$1.5M per investment, backed by approximately $4B in assets under management.

Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe) has backed 40 companies in our records, including Slice, Grain, Pismo.

Partners & Team

SR

Shalini Rao

Head of Growth

AH

Austin Hack

Chief Operating Officer

NX

Nancy Xiao

Partner

MS

Mathias Schilling

Founding Partner

Global Tech
Consumer Internet
LL

Lauren Lyon

Partner

JU

Jonathan Userovici

General Partner

TN

Trevor Neff

Partner

JH

Joseph Huang

Partner

NB

Nicolas Blottnitz

Vice President

TK

Tatsuya Kawamura

Vice President

GD

Guillaume Defer

Marketing Director

GA

Gabriel Alves

Partner

AH

Andreas Haug

Managing Partner

JB

Jonathan Becker

GP

Operational Growth
Seed Enterprise SaaS
CL

Christian Leybold

Managing Partner

Consumer Tech
Enterprise Software

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Marketplace
Consumer
SaaS
Enterprise
Fintech
AI / ML
Developer Tools

Portfolio Companies (40)

Other

SL

Slice

Marketplaces
GR

Grain

B2B SaaS
PI

Pismo

Fintech
FE

Fetch

Consumer
CR

Creditas

Fintech
SE

Segment

Software
RA

Raisin

Fintech
GO

Gopuff

Consumer
SE

SEMrush

Software
SO

Sonos

Consumer
How to pitch Headline (formerly e.ventures Seed Europe)
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Other, Marketplace, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.5M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Shalini Rao, Head of Growth.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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