Luca Eisenstecken
Investor at Factorial HR
Luca Eisenstecken
Investor at Factorial HR
Greater London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Partner in the growth stage investment team of Atomico, a European VC, focusing on tech b2b Series B to pre-IPO investing. We are currently investing out of our $1.24 billion 6th fund. Involved in the Atomico investments into Aiven, Attentive, ChannelEngine, Commsor, Factorial HR, Infarm, MessageBird, Scoutbee and TestGorilla. Furthermore, historically was involved in Peakon's sale to Workday, Pipedrive's majority investment from Vista Equity, Quid's merger with NetBase and Graphcore's Series D.
Principal
2021 - 2022
VP
2019 - 2021
Associate
2018 - 2019
Investor & Board Member
2022
Factorial is a Barcelona based all-in-one people-first automated HR management platform for SMBs globally that incorporates recruiting, onboarding, absence management, payroll, and time tracking amongst many other features into one horizontal platform. Atomico led a $120m Series C with participation from GIC and all existing investors including Creandum, CRV, K-Fund and Tiger Global. Factorial closed a subsequent $80m go-to-market investment from General Catalyst in April 2024.
Investor & Board Member
2022
TestGorilla is a fully remote provider of an online pre-employment testing platform with a wide-ranging library of more than 220 scientifically validated tests set out to eliminate hiring bias, creating a level playing field where candidates get to compete on equal terms. Atomico co-led a $70m Series A with Balderton Capital and participation from existing investors Notion, Partech and CapitalT.
Investor & Board Member
2022
ChannelEngine is a Leiden, Netherlands based global ecommerce marketplace operating platform & management suite, providing a data-driven enablement, orchestration and automation layer to brands, wholesalers and retailers, connecting them to global marketplaces. Atomico led a $50m Series B with participation from General Catalyst and existing investors Inkef Capital and Airbridge Equity.
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Aiven is a Helsinki based open source data infrastructure platform providing fully managed services for Apache Kafka & Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana, Clickhouse and M3 on all major clouds globally. Atomico led a $100m Series C at an $800m valuation with participation from Salesforce Ventures, WiL, and existing investors Earlybird and IVP. Aiven raised a subsequent internal $60m Series C extension co-led by IVP and WiL at a $2b valuation in October 2021 and a $210m Series D at a >$3b valuation in May 2022 led by Eurazeo and BlackRock, with Atomico doubling down in both rounds.
Investor
2022
Commsor is a remote first company building the world’s only full-stack community company, creating the software, community, education, and services for companies looking to transform and harness the power of Community-Led Growth. Atomico anchored a community-led $50m Series B with participation from Slack Fund alongside 150+ founders and operators, as well as existing investors like Felicis Ventures, 776 and SignalFire.
Investor
2020
Attentive is a New York based personalized text messaging SaaS platform that works with over 2,000 leading businesses, driving billions of dollars in transactions. Atomico participated in a $230m Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2b valuation, joining existing investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia, IVP, Sapphire Ventures and others. Subsequently, Attentive raised a $470m Series E in March 2021 led by Coatue at a $7.0b valuation.
Investor & Board Member
2020
Scoutbee’s AI-powered supplier discovery software suite helps procurement leaders see deep supplier insights to make more confident buying decisions, delivering a massive ROI to the largest global organisations. Atomico led a $60 million Series B with participation from Lakestar, Next47 and exiting investors HV, 42Cap and Toba Capital.
Investor
2019
MessageBird is an Amsterdam based Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service (OPaaS), enabling companies to communicate with their customers on any channel of their choosing. Atomico initially invested as part of their $60 million Series A in 2017 and subsequently co-led the Series B in 2019 with Accel. MessageBird raised a $200m Series C at a $3 billion valuation led by Spark Capital in 2020 in which Atomico participated. In 2021, MessageBird extended the Series C to $1 billion co-led by Eurazeo and Tiger Global and Atomico participated again.
Investor & Board Observer
2019 - 2023
Infarm is a Berlin based global vertical farming company with a footprint across Europe, North America and Asia, working with leading retailers like Edeka, M&S, Safeway, Metro, Kroger's and others. Atomico led a $100 million Series B with participation from existing investors like Balderton Capital, Cherry Ventures and Triple Point Capital amongst others. Infarm subsequently raised a $170 million Series C in 2020 and a $200 million Series D in 2021 at a unicorn valuation, in both of which Atomico participated.