Valuation Software Valutico secures Investment & Partnership

• Investment from VC investors PUSH Ventures and aws Gründerfonds
• Investment & planned strategic partnership with Erste Group

25 JANUARY 2023:
Valutico, the web-based valuation platform, announces that it has closed its first financing round with outside investors. Existing investors also participated in the round, totalling equity funding in the mid 7-figures.

Investments from Venture Capital firms PUSH Ventures and aws Gründerfonds will make a substantial impact on the business, not only from a product and service perspective but also by gaining their invaluable expertise.

Vienna-based Erste Group is also participating in the financing round and intends to enter into a strategic partnership with Valutico to help further digitalize the bank’s processes around valuation and corporate lending.

Valutico will apply the funding raised in this round of financing to further accelerate its growth, deliver on its product roadmap, and grow its product and engineering teams.

Valutico provides software for data-driven valuation analysis

Valutico serves the Financial Services and Investment Management industries with data-driven tools to conduct valuation analysis more efficiently. In an area dominated by slow and error-prone spreadsheets, Valutico empowers businesses and experts to perform accurate valuations in a fraction of the time it used to take while solving the issue of complex tools, lack of data sources and time-consuming reporting. Valutico’s globally distributed and fast-growing team of 60 employees currently proudly serves around 600 clients in over 85 countries.

Recent innovative product extensions of the existing valuation models, which currently focus on the financial value of a company, include the integration of the Capitalised Earnings Method and Venture Capital (VC) Method. But Valutico is also working on a robust qualitative and quantitative module for the holistic assessment of an organisation’s impact on the environment, society and governance (‘ESG’).

Paul Resch, Co-Founder & CEO comments:

“The new funding rounds off an outstanding year for the company and will allow us to double down on our growth path and continue to innovate around the question of what “value” means in a business context. The benefits of Valutico’s platform are already being felt across the financial landscape and this recent funding helps us strengthen our offering and broaden our positive impact. We are using this opportunity to reinforce our commitment to our clients and we look forward to the road ahead!”

Laurenz Simbruner, Founding Partner at PUSH Ventures comments:

“Paul and the team have shown an impressive track record building a fantastic product for a global audience of business customers. We are super excited to support Valutico on its way to becoming a world leader in the financial services software industry.”

Christoph Haimberger, Managing Director, aws Gründerfonds comments:

“Our investment allows Valutico to grow beyond legacy valuation tools, in ESG and digital usability. A value-driven combination of our investment thesis into “Green Winners” and “Digital Winners”. We are thrilled to be part of the journey with the outstanding and globally ambitious Valutico team.“

Ingo Bleier, Board Member for Corporates Banking & Markets at Erste Group comments:

“At Erste, we are committed to improving our ability to analyse and apply data in order to gain a better understanding of our customers’ needs and to develop our offering accordingly. That’s why we are exploring how Valutico‘s innovative valuation platform can help us to further digitalize part of our process in the corporate banking and underwriting business.”

About Valutico

Valutico is the world’s leading valuation platform. Valutico’s all-in-one software allows finance professionals to value a company in minutes, by providing data-driven tools to conduct analyses faster and more accurately.

Used by more than 600 financial firms in 85 countries, Valutico is an emerging force in the world of business valuations. The powerful platform is popular amongst professionals in advisory roles such as in Corporate Finance, M&A, and Tax and Audit, as well as Investment Managers in Private Equity, Venture Capitalists, and Family Offices. Large corporations also use Valutico for Strategy, Financial Reporting, and Investor Relations.

Founded in 2017, and headquartered in Vienna with subsidiaries in the US and UK, Valutico operates worldwide with an ever-expanding network of valuation practitioners who use Valutico’s platform, consultancy services, and valuation trainings. Valutico’s mission is to make the complex process of company valuations simple, and to support accurate valuations for a well-functioning economy.

About aws Gründerfonds

The aws Gründerfonds is an Austrian venture capital company and has at its disposal investment capital of around 70 million euros. The investment focus is on Austrian startups with high growth potential for seed and follow-on financing in the start-up and early growth phase (Later Seed and Series-A). Co-investors from the international network are actively involved.  The aws Gründerfonds sees itself as a long-term, stable partner and offers entrepreneurial venture capital with active support. So far, together with co-investors, more than EUR 566 million have been invested in 45 companies, and numerous exits have been successfully completed.

About PUSH Ventures

PUSH Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential. PUSH Ventures has been active as investor and has a strong belief in the megatrend of digitalisation and technological advances for the creation of value. Focus areas include health and the future of the planet in Europe, especially Austria and Germany.

About Erste Group

Founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank, Erste Group went public in 1997 with a strategy to expand its retail business into the CEE region. Since then, Erste Group has grown to become one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Southeastern Europe, where it services around 16 million customers.