Project A Ventures

TL;DR

Operational VC with 140-person platform team embedding in portfolio companies—colonial organism model that produced five unicorns through functional leverage.

Venture Capital · Founded 2012

Project A pioneered operational venture capital in Europe—not advisors offering opinions, but a 140-person team of engineers, designers, and marketers who embed in portfolio companies. This mirrors colonial organisms like Portuguese man-of-war: individual specialized units (engineering polyps, marketing polyps, design polyps) functioning as one integrated organism. Portfolio companies access below-market-rate functional expertise, accelerating through growth stages faster than competitors relying on generalist capital. Five unicorns (Trade Republic, Kry, Sennder, WorldRemit, Voi) validate that operational leverage compounds capital leverage.

Key Leaders at Project A Ventures

Florian Heinemann

Founding Partner

Uwe Horstmann

Founding Partner

Key Facts

2012
Founded

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