Today, Nico Rosberg announced that Rosberg Ventures has just closed its $100 million Fund III, describing it on LinkedIn as “oversubscribed, with unprecedented demand, and capped for performance.”
Rosberg Ventures was founded by former Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg after his retirement in 2016, transitioning from racing into technology investing. Rosberg Ventures builds its portfolio primarily through a VC fund-of-funds strategy and over the last year has begun making direct co-investments in standout companies.
These include ClickHouse, a real-time data analytics platform used by large tech companies and Ivy the developer of a global API for instant bank payments.
Beyond the firm’s direct activity, founder Nico Rosberg also has a track record of personal angel and syndicate investments — historically backing startups such as Jack & Jill AI, Clyx, Fyxer AI, and Black Forest Labs, among others, across software, AI, and enterprise sectors.
On LinkedIn, Rosberg cited a few lessons from Formula 1 that have shaped how the firm thinks about building and investing:
Take your chances. Sometimes that means going for the 10% probability opportunities — when the upside is truly transformational. How do you commit when failure is more likely than success?
Preparation. You map every downside scenario, stress-test it, and work out how to mitigate or even turn those outcomes into acceptable ones. That’s what gives you the confidence to go all in. In sport, progress often comes from attacking — not playing it safe.
"Intuitively deciding on which chances to take, and then sometimes succeeding, will compound very powerfully."
According to Rosberg:
“Venture is a long game. There’s no chequered flag, no single finish line. But crossing $200M+ in AUM is a milestone that gives us the firepower to keep pushing, keep building, and keep racing forward.”
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