LeadX Capital Partners

LeadX Capital Partners, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a corporate investment arm of Metro AG that focuses on growth capital for later-stage venture companies. The firm primarily invests in European companies within the retail, hospitality, and food sectors, targeting mature businesses that generate over €10 million in revenue and exhibit a compound annual growth rate of over 30%. LeadX typically invests around €25 million in equity and aims to partner with innovative entrepreneurs who are digitizing consumer industries. By leveraging its specialized expertise and industry networks, LeadX seeks to provide value beyond just financial support, enabling its partners to scale more efficiently and effectively. The firm also has additional offices in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Paris, France.

Sabine Flechet

Director

James Hook

Partner

Hansjorg Sage

Partner

Past deals in Hospitality

Gofer

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Gofer is a staffing platform that focuses on streamlining the hiring process for temporary staff in the construction and hospitality industries. It operates as a community-driven, SaaS-enabled marketplace, initially targeting high-end hotels in major cities. By curating a pool of qualified temporary workers, Gofer ensures that businesses can access flexible and reliable staff who match the standards of their permanent employees. This approach helps companies reduce training and hiring costs while providing workers with desirable job environments, prompt payments, and recognition. The platform manages all necessary paperwork and payments digitally, while also offering training and briefing to minimize on-site training time, thus enhancing efficiency for both businesses and workers.

Hotelhero

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hotelhero GMBH is an online marketplace that specializes in providing software as a service (SaaS) solutions tailored for the hotel industry. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company assists independent hotels and small chains in discovering, comparing, and selecting digital tools and systems suitable for their specific operational needs. Hotelhero offers a carefully curated selection of partners to ensure quality, providing hoteliers with all relevant information to streamline the often tedious software selection process. Their platform features a discovery, matchmaking, and evaluation tool that personalizes searches based on individual hotel requirements. By facilitating the adoption of innovative technology, Hotelhero aims to help hoteliers reduce costs, increase revenues, and adapt to the evolving expectations of guests.

GuestU

Seed Round in 2017
GuestU is a technology company that offers software-as-a-service (SaaS) mobile solutions specifically designed for the hospitality industry. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company operates in the United States, Spain, and China. GuestU provides a customizable mobile concierge platform that allows hotels, guesthouses, short-term rentals, and hostels to enhance the guest experience. This platform integrates with over 100 hotel systems, including property management systems, point of sale systems, and security locks, enabling hospitality providers to streamline operations and improve guest engagement. The mobile app offers features such as useful information, booking services, and offline GPS-guided routes, helping hoteliers to boost guest satisfaction. With a customer base exceeding 400 clients across more than 55 countries, GuestU is committed to optimizing the digital experience for both guests and hospitality operators.

Impala

Seed Round in 2017
Impala Enterprise Ltd, founded in 2016 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in developing cloud-based software tailored for the management of small and medium-sized hotels. Its platform streamlines various operational aspects, including bookings, staff management, finance, and task coordination. Additionally, Impala offers a secure and user-friendly universal REST API that allows for seamless integration with multiple hotel systems, ensuring bank-grade security and full compliance with GDPR regulations. The company's infrastructure is designed to be robust, utilizing geographically diverse hosting to enhance reliability and performance.

Reputize

Seed Round in 2016
Reputize is an innovative Online Hotel Reputation Management platform based in London, focused on assisting the hospitality industry in enhancing customer experience and managing brand reputation. The company offers a comprehensive Software as a Service solution that allows hotels to effectively monitor, collect, and amplify guest reviews. By leveraging big data technology, Reputize enables hotel professionals to share reviews across various platforms and provides multi-channel survey tools to assess customer satisfaction. Their bespoke technology, which includes the in-house survey platform SurveyOnTablet and QR-engage, is designed to deliver measurable results, helping clients improve their online travel agency rankings and increase revenue. Reputize is committed to continuous service upgrades and expanding its global presence through strategic regional partnerships.

Cheerfy

Seed Round in 2016
Cheerfy Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in creating a Wi-Fi based customer recognition and relationship tool aimed at enhancing the digital experience for businesses, particularly in the restaurant and hospitality sectors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, Cheerfy has developed an integrated platform that includes various products such as a customer relationship management and loyalty platform, online ordering, a multi-brand marketplace, and self-service kiosks. These solutions enable businesses to provide seamless Wi-Fi access, gather real-time customer insights, and engage clients through personalized communications. Cheerfy serves a diverse clientele, including restaurants, hotels, and retailers across the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, and Portugal, and has established partnerships with over 200 notable brands, ensuring a comprehensive and cohesive digital experience for their customers.

Hyre

Seed Round in 2016
Hyre Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects event staff, such as bartenders and servers, with event organizers, including venues and planners. Founded in 2015 and based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Ottawa, the company offers a platform that eliminates the need for traditional staffing agencies. This direct connection allows event organizers to hire staff at reduced costs while ensuring access to higher-quality personnel. The platform also features a performance rating system, enabling organizers to evaluate and select staff based on their qualifications. By streamlining the hiring process, Hyre Inc. provides a beneficial solution for both event organizers and event staff, allowing the latter to earn competitive wages for their services.

OrderBird

Series C in 2016
Orderbird AG is a Berlin-based company that specializes in providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for the hospitality industry, particularly through its innovative iPad point of sale (POS) system. Established in 2011, Orderbird focuses on delivering an intuitive and customer-centric platform that enables service staff to wirelessly send orders to the kitchen or bar, enhancing operational efficiency. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of establishments, including restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, and ice cream shops across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Orderbird's POS system is designed to streamline business operations by tracking invoices, facilitating mobile ordering, enabling cashless payments, and providing real-time data analysis and accounting-ready reporting. This comprehensive approach helps independent restaurateurs and small to medium-sized businesses optimize their processes and increase sales, serving as a modern alternative to traditional, cumbersome legacy systems.

PoshPacker

Seed Round in 2015
☆ Recognized as the poshtel site by National Geographic ☆ PoshPacker created a new travel category in the lodging travel space, by blending the concepts of "posh”+social+budget. Through a vetting process that combines human curation and technological algorithms, they offer a curated selection of poshtel (posh/modern hostels), themed hotels, and stylish and affordable travel accommodation. They currently have over 1500 properties in 460 cities across 60 countries. They provide the security and reliability of a trusted OTA with the uniqueness of off the beaten path lodging experience. Users can search by their interest, and find inspirational travel blogs. For hoteliers PoshPacker is a marketing solution, enabling them to reach and resonate with millennials through their digital innovations including their geolocation instagram technology, and vibes tagging system. They offer hoteliers a brand to differentiate themselves among the budget lodging sector.

Roomatic

Seed Round in 2015
Roomatic is a technology company that provides a guest engagement platform for hotels, enabling seamless communication between guests and hotel services through a smartphone application. The platform allows guests to easily order services such as taxis, report issues, and connect directly with room service. Additionally, Roomatic's application facilitates the collection of instant feedback from guests during their stay, helping hotels address any concerns before check-out. This proactive approach not only enhances the guest experience but also aids hotels in improving their amenities and services based on customer input, ultimately helping to bolster their online reputation and reduce negative reviews.
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