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Today we are announcing Headline EU VIII, our new $400 million fund for European founders. The mission stays the same: partner early, work closely with the team, and help founders build companies that win globally. The ambition of a founder rarely stops at Europe's borders. That is why we have set up the firm the way we have: $5 billion in assets under management and a $900 million growth fund alongside our local early-stage funds. We can back a company from its first round through to global scale. You can see what that looks like in the founders we work with at Mistral, AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence, Staffbase, Podimo, Monta and Sereact. This generation of European founders is building and scaling faster than any before. Our job is to help them win bigger. Thank you to our founders, our LPs and the whole Headline team.

Big day for our team at Headline: we’re announcing Headline EU VIII, our new $400 million fund dedicated to European founders. The mission stays the same: partner early, work closely and help founders build on a global scale. A European founder’s ambition rarely stops at Europe’s borders: with $5 billion in assets under management and a $900 million growth fund alongside our early stage fund, we want to support founders from their earliest stages through global leadership. That conviction comes to life through the founders we are lucky to partner with at Mistral AI, Fundamental, AMI labs, Attio, Primo, Notch or Payflows. The new generation of European founders is building & scaling at an unprecedented speed. We will help them win bigger! A huge thank you to our community of founders, LPs and the whole Headline team. It’s a privilege and a pleasure to work alongside such exceptional people. Let’s get to work!

Headline is proud to continue our partnership with Heidi as they announce their $100M Series C. We invested in Heidi less than 2 years ago on the thesis that they wanted to expand healthcare capacity in the world by 2x. Many of the concepts he discussed in our first conversation no one was talking about and are now mainstream knowledge. 3 things were important to Tom. Give doctors more time back, be a global business, and give every doctor in the world access to cutting edge AI. Since then they have become one of the fastest growing health care companies of all time. Partnering with Dr. Thomas Kelly, Waleed Mussa, Yu Liu and the rest of the Heidi team was one of the best decisions of my life. All of us at Headline are excited to continue the journey with the entire Heidi team! https://lnkd.in/gAHP6TFC

𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘛, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘱, 12 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 👉 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 👈 Automating IT takes more than putting a chatbot on a ticketing system. Agents need context across devices, software, access, and policies, and the ability to act across them. That’s why Primo's approach is so compelling. Martin Pannier, Benoît Bourdel, and Olivier Nairey built the platform connecting those systems and 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥. 🔥 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗧 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 🔥 Already 𝟒𝟎𝟎+ 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 across 𝟏𝟎 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐬, including Attio, Dust, Skello, and LumApps, with revenue growing 𝟒𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫. Today, Primo announces its $𝟖𝐌 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, led by Headline, alongside Global Founders Capital, and launches its first AI agents for IT. Congratulations Martin, Benoit, Olivier, and the whole Primo team. Proud to be backing you since day 1! Jonathan Userovici

The Cursor moment has arrived for IT teams. IT teams have been left behind for too long. Primo is changing that. Today, Primo announces its $8M Seed round, which we’re leading alongside GFC (with my good friend David Sainteff), and launches its first AI agents for IT. The team has built impressive momentum: 400+ customers across 10 countries, with revenue growing >4x since last year. From AI companies like Attio and Dust to PE-backed leaders like Skello and LumApps, Primo is earning the trust of businesses whose IT needs grow more complex as they scale. Now comes the next chapter: agentic IT. While other functions have gained AI tools to multiply their impact, IT teams still spend far too much time provisioning laptops, managing access, chasing tickets, and stitching together disconnected tools. I’ve long believed the winning IT platform would give teams the context and intelligence to run proactively. Last week, the Primo team gave us a demo of their agents, and we saw that vision coming to life. Primo brings devices, SaaS, access, security, purchasing, and ticketing together in one platform. That shared context gives its agents the ability to identify issues, make decisions, and get the work done, with IT teams retaining control. Every new hire, role change, or departure triggers work across multiple systems. Primo’s ambition is to let IT teams delegate those entire processes and focus on what needs their judgment. As an investor, few things are more fulfilling than seeing a product unlock what an entire function can achieve. The $8M round is a milestone. The agents going live today are only the beginning. Congratulations Martin Pannier, Benoît Bourdel Olivier Nairey, and the entire Primo team. We’re incredibly proud to keep building with you!

Today Exein announced $270 million in new funding, led by Headline As AI moves into robots, autonomous vehicles, and critical infrastructure, securing the physical world will become one of the defining cybersecurity challenges of the next decade. Exein's deep expertise in embedded systems and unique machine data give it a powerful advantage as it rapidly scales globally 🚀 That strategic advantage traces back to the team Gianni Cuozzo Giovanni Alberto Falcione Gerardo Gagliardo This visionary team has remarkable technical and commercial depth, has always chosen the harder, long-term-oriented path, and puts customer trust above all else. The level of craftsmanship simply felt like a breath of fresh air in today’s world. We're incredibly honored and excited to help them build a global leader in Physical AI Security More on our investment thesis: https://lnkd.in/gdn8--n2  Anna Faulkner Linda Brosig

'Clarey Zhu, partner at Headline, said securing the physical world “will become one of the defining cyber security challenges of the next decade”.' Excited to announce today that Headline Growth is leading Exein's $270M new funding round. We are proud to partner with Gianni Cuozzo and his team for many years to come! Anna Faulkner, Linda Brosig, Benjamin Sabatier Sofina, KfW, European Investment Fund (EIF), Mina Mutafchieva Van Ingelgem HV, Rana Yared Balderton