Index Ventures

Gerry Rimer founded Index Securities in 1976, the predecessor of Index Ventures. That securities business predates the venture firm’s 1996 founding and represents a distinct stage in its history.⁠[1]

Neil Rimer, Giuseppe Zocco and David Rimer founded Index Ventures in Geneva in 1996. Its early approach sought technology founders across Europe while maintaining links to the United States, rather than confining opportunities to Silicon Valley.⁠[2]

Index opened its London office in 2002. Danny Rimer’s arrival helped drive the expansion, bringing the firm closer to an emerging European technology hub and founders and investors moving between Europe and the United States.⁠[2]

In 2011, Index opened in San Francisco to deepen US investing and support companies expanding internationally. Its retrospective identifies leading Dropbox’s Series B that year as an important step in establishing credibility in the American market.⁠[2]

Neil Rimer stepped down as an active partner in 2021. His official biography identifies him as a Retired Partner who continues managing his portion of the portfolio and supporting colleagues and the firm.⁠[3]

Index opened its New York office in 2022, further connecting European and US markets. Its subsequent firm descriptions identify San Francisco, London and New York as principal office locations.⁠[2]

On July 10, 2024, Index announced an $800 million twelfth venture fund and a $1.5 billion seventh growth fund, totaling $2.3 billion. These are newly raised fund commitments, not the firm’s total assets under management.⁠[4]

The July 31, 2026 financing comprised a $400 million seed fund, a $900 million venture fund and a $700 million addition to the 2024 growth fund: $2 billion of new capital. Material accompanying a November interview with Shardul Shah put combined investing capacity at $3.5 billion, including the earlier growth fund rather than only the new commitments.⁠[5]

Index Ventures and Emergence CapitalEmergence CapitalEmergence Capital is a US venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Gordon Ritter, Jason Green and Brian Jacobs. It focuses on early-stage enterprise software and cloud services, with investments including Salesforce, Veeva, Zoom and Crunchbase, and has expanded its focus to AI software and services.Open the full entry led the seed round for Sara DuSara DuSara Du is a software entrepreneur, co-founder of Alloy Automation and founder of Ando (team messaging). She attended Harvard before becoming a Thiel Fellow and works on integrations, product design and collaboration between people and AI agents.Open the full entry’s Ando (team messaging)Ando (team messaging)Ando is a team messaging platform founded by Sara Du that brings people and AI agents into a shared workspace. Built around channels and messages, it emphasizes agent context, access boundaries and collaboration across tools. It launched publicly in September 2026.Open the full entry, following an Accel-led pre-seed. Index’s investment thesis emphasized the interface between people and agents, execution infrastructure and shared memory.⁠[6][7]

The firm presents itself as a partner to founders from seed through venture and growth. Its investments span technology sectors, with examples including Figma, Wiz, RevolutRevolutRevolut is a London-based digital banking and fintech group founded in 2015 by Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko. It began with low-cost currency exchange and cross-border transfers and expanded into a mobile app offering payments, savings, investing, crypto assets, lending and business accounts. The group conducts banking in the European Economic Area through Revolut Bank UAB in Lithuania, and in March 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) lifted the restrictions on its UK bank, Revolut Bank UK Ltd; at the end of 2025 the group had 68.3 million retail customers, and in 2025 it reported revenue of £4.5 billion and profit before tax of £1.7 billion.Open the full entry, Roblox, Adyen and Scale AI; investment and exit status varies by company and date.⁠[4]

Index Press publishes founder resources such as Winning in the US, covering location choices, organizational structure, hiring and market expansion for European businesses entering the United States. These publications form part of its support for founders.⁠[2]

Index Ventures website: https://www.indexventures.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[8]

X public account: https://x.com/indexventures (opens in a new window).⁠[8]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry company page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/index-ventures (opens in a new window).⁠[8]