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Matus Maar

Led Seed Round at Rubi Laboratories

London, England

Overview 

Matus Maar is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Talis Capital in London, England. He has led successful investment rounds for companies like Darktrace, which he led in Series A in 2015 and subsequently went public in 2021, and Onfido, where he co-led an early Series B round. Maar's career highlights include his leadership in successful investment rounds for various companies, such as Darktrace, and his role in co-founding and managing Talis Capital, a prominent venture capital firm in London.

Work Experience 

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Talis Capital

  • co-founder & Managing Partner

    2012 - Current

    Helping founders build category defining companies - Darktrace, Onfido, Howl, Ynsect, Pricefx, Seqera Labs, PortalOne I led our investments / serve on the boards of: Darktrace, Onfido, Pricefx, Howl, Ynsect, Garten, Plum Guide, iwoca, Rubi Laboratories, Pirate.com, Threads Styling, Andium, DayDayCook, Carta

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Darktrace

  • Led Series A in 2015 - IPO 2021 LON:DARK

    2015

    www.darktrace.com Led $10m Series A (first outside round) round in March 2015. Summit Partners, KKR, Softbank, Samsung, Insight & Vitruvian invested since then and Darktrace IPO in May 2021 hit $10bn LON:DARK

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Onfido

  • Co-led early Series B

    2016

    Co-led early round of Onfido in 2016 as part of $25m Series B together with Wellington partners, Idinvest, CrunchFund and Salesforce Ventures. TPG led the Series C

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Pricefx

  • Co-led Seed

    2016

    Talis Capital and Credo led the €4m Series A in November 2016. Bain&Co, Ytrium and Apax Digital led Series B and C.

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Howl

  • Led Seed Round

    2015

    I led the Seed round in 2015 with NEA participating. Followed in Series A, led by Highland Capital Partners.

Howl is a creative platform that provides commerce and payment tech providing better rates and easy payments for big ideas.

Raised $38,000,000.00 from Highland Capital Partners.

planethowl.com
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Laced

  • Led Seed & Series A

    2019

    www.laced.com I concept funded Laced in 2018 and then led Seed and Series A.

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Rubi Laboratories

  • Led Seed Round

    2023

    https://www.rubi.earth

Rubi Laboratories develops biocatalyst solutions that turn carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles.

Raised $19,325,902.00 from National Science Foundation.

rubi.earth
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Ÿnsect

  • Board

    2019

    Insect protein start-up Ynsect raised $125m Series C from Talis Capital and led by Astanor Ventures.

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Garten

  • Led Seed Round

    2018

    Talis led $20m Series Seed in 2018 together with BackedVC, Y Combinator and Stanford-StartX.

Garten is a food processing company that delivers nutrient-rich catered meals and curated snacks for workplace.

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Astanor Ventures, Montage Capital and Duro Ventures.

garten.co
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Luminance

  • Led Seed & Series A

    2016

    www.luminance.com Legal AI Talis Capital led the Series A in November 2016

Education 

Investments 

Pirate Studios

Venture Round

Total funding: $60M

Onfido

Venture Round

Total funding: $180M

Price f(x)

Series B

Total funding: $32M

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