London based Trint closes a £2.4 million series A round with Hong Honk based Horizons Ventures as the lead investor having previously closed £1.2 million in three seed rounds. The company was founded in September 2014 by Jeff Kofman, the award winning journalist with deep knowledge on the lack of transcription software. Seed investors include the angel-led crowdfunding site, Angels Den and other individuals. Bart Swanson, a frequent investor in UK based machine learning software companies, joins the board from Horizons Ventures. Other UK investments include Summly (sold to Yahoo) and DeepMind Technologies (sold to Google). Previously he was COO at London based Badoo. Horizons Ventures has 17 investments in Europe, of which 7 are in the UK, 24 in Israel, 6 in Canada and 32 in the US.
Horizons Ventures funds Trint
About the Author: Colin Watts
20 years in venture capital, high tech M&A and strategic business development. Directly involved in the delivery of over 12 acquisitions, four IPO's and thirty venture investments with a total transaction value of more than $3bn. Served on more than 25 Company Boards and experienced many technology and economic cycles.
In 2014 he founded The Hub Exchange a Fintech software and services company providing exchange services to private companies and their investors. Current customers include the London Stock Exchange for their Elite service and the Founders Factory.
In 2017 he created Foundry Exchange to provide early stage founders with a high quality source of information and connections in the high tech ecosystem.
