P+P advises Sapphire Ventures / OMERS Ventures on financing round for Contentful GmbH
Contentful received 33.5 million US dollars in the form of series D equity capital financing. Under the management of Sapphire Ventures, with an investment from OMERS Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and existing backers such as General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules, the total financing of Contentful increases to 78.3 million US dollars.
Sapphire Ventures, the private equity firm owned by SAP, Germany's largest software company, has already invested in 138 companies since its inception in 1996 – including LinkedIn, Square and Apigee.
OMERS, one of the largest pension funds in Canada with 95 billion CAD net invested capital, founded OMERS Ventures in 2011.
The startup Contentful was founded in 2014 in Berlin. In 2017, an American headquarters was opened in San Francisco. Contentful provides a content management system (CMS) which optimizes the ability to distribute content over multiple platforms and performs better than available competing products. 140 employees currently work for Contentful.
P+P Pöllath + Partners advised Sapphire Ventures and OMERS Ventures on all legal matters with the following team:
- Christian Tönies (partner, M&A, venture capital)
- Dr. Sebastian Gerlinger (senior associate, venture capital)
- Markus Döllner (associate, venture capital, all Munich)
