Bunch Capital is hacking the future of funding
In an office overlooking a tram-tracked shopping street in central Berlin, tech investment is getting electrified.
Bunch Capital, a software startup aiming to build an “operating system” for private market investors, is harnessing the power of automation to streamline processes.
That platform has helped 2,000 investors fund 750 startups with more than €1.75 billion in capital.
But, while Bunch has coded its own innovative platform for founders and investors to manage their financing, many of its underlying processes are powered by no-code.
"When I first got here, we had built something that worked for a selected few customers, but we knew that we needed to streamline and automate our operations to scale to the next level," says Jakob Zacherl, data and automation lead at Bunch Capital.
The key to unlocking this potential was Make, a no-code automation platform that enables users to create complex workflows without writing a single line of code.
By equipping people business-trained staff with an easy-to-use software tool like Make, Bunch Capital found that they were much quicker to put their domain knowledge into practice and have an impact on operations and product.
"Last summer, we started onboarding customers from a questionnaire, but then we only had the submissions in a huge table and didn't really know how to work with it afterwards," recalls Valeska Pachelbel, data and automation manager. "With Make, it's super easy to automate it, so it's not that you have to be very technical in order to do so."
The results speak for themselves. Roughly 40% of the whole team at Bunch Capital now actively builds Make scenarios, with no engineer needed. This has enabled the company to automate things on the fly, with around 360 Make scenarios running 24/7.
"As a company, we move quicker than we would if we hadn't had this set up," says Zacherl. "That's why for us, automation is such a core focus."
Automation experts say Bunch is “going full speed on empowering their operations teams with tech”.
The company sees so much potential in automation, it staged a company-wide automation hackathon in early 2024, where business and tech teams came together to address high-impact opportunities in less than a day.
The implications of this shift are significant. By digitizing the private market investment space and bringing it up to speed with the public markets, Bunch Capital aims to revolutionize an industry that has long relied on manual processes and offline file storage.
With a €7.3 million seed funding round of its own and plans to expand to other asset classes and regions, the future looks bright for this innovative startup. And with the power of no-code automation at their fingertips, there's no telling what it might achieve next.